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...diocese to Tom Wilmot in February this year: "cruise control and reading books." To these, Wilmot, 53, might add Shoo Roo, the device fitted to bush vehicles to scare away kangaroos with ultrasonic sounds. For an area stretching from Esperance on the Southern Ocean to Eneabba northwest of Perth and across to the South Australian border, he'll be needing Shoo Roo. As Wilmot puts it, such distances are "unimaginable, with apparently nothing in between." But six months into his Kalgoorlie posting, the goldfields bishop's vision is changing. "I find the desert quite charming," he says. "And the more...
...Hope is what kalgoorlie is built on. "That man," says Rev. Marumba, pointing to a statue of Paddy Hannan in the town's main street which bears his name, "he discovered gold here. They say he pushed a wheelbarrow from Perth." But on a day trip out to the mining town of Laverton, Marumba is prospecting for souls, not gold. Stretching his legs at Laverton's roadhouse after the 3.5-hour drive north, he spots some Aboriginal teenagers. "When you're in Kalgoorlie," he tells them, "come to church." But Marumba's most important work is being done out here...
...doesn't take long to get to the point in remote Australia (Lake Ballard is about 800 km east of Perth and about the same distance again to the South Australian border). And paring back to the essence of things was the whole aim of Antony Gormley's $A500,000 Inside Australia sculpture project. For the 2003 Perth International Arts Festival, the Englishman digitally scanned each able-bodied citizen of Menzies (about 130 of them at the time), tweaked their dimensions on a computer screen, and cast their skeletal cores in a mix of stainless steel and trace elements found...
...pattern. these people left town without paying there account is the sign that greets those entering the Menzies roadhouse. Even its ebullient owners, Robert and Christine Earnshaw, didn't mean to stick around for quite so long. He was an upholsterer from Perth whose first wife came to work at the service station; 18 years his junior, Yorkshire-born Christine, 45, stopped in Menzies while touring Australia. But after 12 years together at the roadhouse, they're ready to sell up. "It's an experience I wouldn't have missed, living here," says Earnshaw, who also runs the town...
...Since then, the Perth International Arts Festival estimates that more than 4,480 visitors have got to know the people on the lake. At the service station, proprietor Christine proudly shows a photo of her sculpture sent to her by an American tourist - "he said it was so nice to have a connection," she says. At lakeside, a Scottish traveler is illegally setting up camp for the night. "I don't know whether the statues are intrinsically meritorious," he says, "but I like the idea of creating them and installing them in such an out-of-the-way spot." Earlier...