Word: spinifex
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...hour ride in one of the three bars or the dining car. But dinner is the highlight of the trip. As you tuck into your fillet of kangaroo with native pepperleaf and plum sauce, a banquet of scenery is delivered to your window?vistas of sand and spinifex grass, with salt plains for seasoning and a stunning sunset to round...
Soaring like a bird, the camera tilts toward the sun across the desert landscape, turning its creek beds and clumps of spinifex into a shimmering tableau not unlike an Aboriginal dot painting. So begins Rabbit-Proof Fence, the filmed real-life account of three Aboriginal girls removed under the assimilation policy of 1930s Western Australia?and their long walk home. For the rest of the film, Christopher Doyle's camera never stops moving; cowering in darkness at the mission the young girls are taken to, then feeling its way like braille across 2,000 sun-scorched kilometers, to a ring...
...woman," he yelled to his sleeping co-driver as they shuddered to a stop. But he hadn't hurt Lees; he had saved her. Bleeding from the cuts lacing her body?her shorts and singlet no protection from the thorns and burrs of the mallee scrub and spinifex grass through which she had burrowed?Lees fell into Miller's arms and began sobbing out her tale of horror. "This whole thing is really so bizarre," says Police Commander Bob Fields, who is leading the investigation, "it almost defies belief...
...boom was set off by a small but promising nickel find in the sand and spinifex of Western Australia. It attracted particular attention because of the worldwide nickel shortage, made worse this summer when Canadian nickel miners went on strike. A tiny Australian mining company called Poseidon started the speculative mania late in September. A drill on its 1,100-acre lease in desolate Windarra churned up traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact...
...still apt to regard both Americans and Australians as colonials without much culture. In his eigth novel, British Author Nevil Shute has set up a kind of midget contest between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn, are baffled...