‘A camel is having sex with my car.’
Liz Martin’s My Territory, My Life, My Story, launched today by Alice Springs Mayor Damien Ryan at the Road Transport Hall Fame, is brimming with entertaining and sometimes amazing anecdotes, one of which Alice Online is pleased to publish today with Liz’s permission. Liz’s memoirs, uncommonly rich in remembered detail, are ” a journey … [...]
At A Cost
If you have never come across Roy McFadyen’s memoir, At A Cost, now is a good time to get acquainted with this absorbing and revealing account of Australia — and particularly Central Australia — in the era of the Great Depression. Roy, now in his nineties, was 15 and homeless when he left Melbourne on [...]
Giving it shtick
I still haven’t explained why I am running an Alice Springs website from Adelaide. I know this. The reason is I am still researching the background to my explanation. It’s coming. In the meantime I have caught up with another great act in Rundle Mall. Like the Adelaide Sax Pack, he was happy for me [...]
Goldenberg on Moss
“This is not going to be a meek or polite book. Nor is it ever disrespectful. It is the book that only an intimate outsider, one licensed to see and to show and to tell, might write. Only Rod Moss could do this.” So spoke Howard Goldenberg, doctor and author of Raft, in a talk he [...]
“I said to myself: This is the life, Klaus.”
Klaus Menzel is the living, breathing answer to all those superannuation experts who tell you how much money you need to have salted away in order to be happy in your old age. After being warned by his doctor his particular old age was an unlikely event given his hard-working, eating and drinking lifestyle, Klaus [...]
Margaret Kemarre Turner Interview Part 2
”We grew up in that feeling of land. Our trees and hills and creeks are really important to us, you know. Never in our lives would people move anything. If they went hunting they wouldn’t move anything. If they ate anything it would always be buried, if they cooked anything fireplace got to be buried. [...]
Iwenhe Tyerrtye – what it means to be an Aboriginal person
The writing is taken from a wonderful talk given by Barry McDonald at last Sunday’s launch of Margaret Kemarre Turner‘s beautiful book, published by the Institute of Aboriginal Development (IAD) Press. Margaret Kemarre talks about the ideas in the book with Dave Richards (above) in the first part of an interview held at her Alice [...]
The First Colour is Yellow
Some extraordinary people are drawn to Alice Springs, and often decide to make their life and work here after they have experienced the power of the Centre. Violinist and sound-colour healer Dian Booth is one of them. In this article she tells Helen Womack about her journey from the performing arts to the realm of [...]
The marvels of Mrs Bennett
Mrs Bennett was born 80 years ago in the bush, and raised there, unseen by Western eyes and quite unaware of the presence of white men in the landscape. As a result, she was schooled in a cultural realm that was still intact, vivid and elaborate. When young, she took the first steps towards becoming [...]
Peg Nelson
Peg Nelson was about as close as you could get to a living link with the early white settlement of Central Australia. She was born when white women in the Centre were a rarity. The Alice Springs she knew as a child was “the Stuart Arms pub, a police station, a couple of stores and [...]
The White Witch of Alice Springs
Although her sense of humour- like her agelessly sexy voice – was always slightly wicked, Teddy Cairns’ altar ego as the White Witch of Alice Springs suited her perfectly. .She cast a gentle spell over those who came into contact with her, whether as the white witch who delighted children in numerous Alice Springs street [...]
Have you ever seen the rain?
Alice Springs was on the verge of putting its driest year on record to bed when the Weather Bureau forecast a wet Christmas. But not everyone was bitterly disappointed by the lack of rain. Old-timer Max Stuart issued his own unequivocal forecast during an interview a day before the rain was due.
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