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Tag Archives: The Domain
The Desire Path
The clock on this silly season is counting down and I only have a few days left to indulge my passion for beautiful objects in the name of gift giving. I leave the house and head into the city but … Continue reading
Posted in Habitat, Spirit of Place
Tagged Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road, Art Gallery shop, artisan objects, Australian Design Centre, Cook + Phillip Park, craft, Flour and Stone bakery, Grand Days Bookshop, Kings Cross, knitted animals, Martin Place, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney Hospital, The Domain, The little Shop, The Object Shop, vintage, William Street, Woolloomooloo
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Get On Your Soap Box
This summer, as you enjoy Christmas carols or the symphony in the Domain, see if you can also spot an old time orator on their soap box in Speaker’s Corner. The tradition of Speaker’s Corner comes to us from London’s Hyde Park, … Continue reading
Posted in democracy, Spirit of Place, Time
Tagged 1932, 1975, communism, Debra Phillips, Egon Kisch, free speech, Gough Whitlam, Governor Game, Governor General Kerr, H.V.Evatt, High Court, Hitler, John Webster, Menzies, Moreton Bay figs, NAZIS, Premier Jack Lang, psychogeography, Reichstag fire, Reverend Bill Crews, Speaker's Corner, Sydney Botanic Gardens, The Domain, Viva Voce’ Soap-Box sculpture
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The Spirit of Place 2
Here are five more places that make my city spirit soar. Some of them beautifully juxtapose time and place, others blood and survival; reminding us of the price of civilisation. In all of them, our souls connect to water, trees, … Continue reading
Posted in Spirit of Place, Time
Tagged amphitheatre, Koori, Mckell Park, Moreton Bay figs, Museum of Sydney, Newport Beach, Northern Beaches, NSW Government House, oratory, philosophy, politics, psychogeography, red ladder, religion music festival, sculpture, soapbox, Sydney Harbour, The Domain, The Wharf Theatre
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