• You Can’t Count the Oceans

    I am remembering a big and wild day at Cosy Corner in Falcon, Western Australia. One of those late afternoons where the onshore drops off just a little, so while it’s not clean by any means, it’s also not blown to pieces. And the glare disappears as the sun goes down, so the Diamond Sea

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  • On Fiona Beach

    Fiona Beach (beach key NSW 220) is located to the south of Seal Rocks on the NSW Midcoast, about three and a half hours north of Sydney. With no direct track or road access, it is reached only by a long walk south from Submarine Beach – which is itself accessible via a short track

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  • Submissions List – October 2024

    The following submissions were received by The Office of the Mental Registrar during the month of October 2024. All submissions are subject to assessment by the Office. Inclusion on this list is not an indication of interpretive status or significance. To download an electronic copy of this submissions list, click below. SPACES Viveash, WA (VI1999)

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  • Seaward Village: No Map Completion

    Each time I return to Perth’s Western Suburbs, I’m saddened to see iconic, older homes replaced with yet more square, glass-fronted mansions that have zero congruence with the natural beauty of the area. Entire streets are steadily being filled with oversized concrete boxes; houses that are at pains to appear striking and ‘contemporary’, but look

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  • The No Map Completion Project

    How often do we navigate a new place without a map? These days I’d hazard to guess almost never. Even on the rare occasions we indulge ourselves in some aimless wandering around a foreign city, there’s almost always recourse to Google Maps sooner or later. Sometimes it’s to find a place but, more often than

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  • Daceyville: No Map Completion

    Daceyville is an unassuming suburb in south-east Sydney. I’d imagine many Sydneysiders don’t even know it exists. Yet I’ve had my eye on it for months as the perfect place to kick-off the No Map Completion project, wherein one attempts to run every street of a suburb without recourse to a map along the way.

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  • The Central Steppe

    We are on the edges of Werrima, a dream-town in remote South Australia. Here there is a desert with no red earth or Shutterstock-ready sculpted dunes. It’s instead a low expanse of brown dirt, silt-like, in which nothing can grow but tussocks of dried plain grass. This grass is the reason why this place is

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  • Bottom Drawer Tapes: Taog Susej – FuneralMoonEclipse

    Artist: Taog Susej (US) Title: FuneralMoonEclipse Label: Meurtre Noir Date: 2005 Taog Susej is ‘Goat Jesus’ turned backwards so, yeah, this is some real inverted crosses ‘n’ incantations black ambient; the first demo from a project which would go on to do a few splits before disappearing around 2007. At least one member was involved in Vrolok, which was

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