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MURDERS, SWANS AND DRAGONBOATS
 Travelling west beside the Torrens lake, I pass the old mooring place
of the Floating Palais. The ballroom with its chandeliers and
second-story observation deck could hold 700 dancers doing the
slow-slow, quick-quick, over the dark water.
By Mike Ladd
NEW COLONY, FREE PRESS?
 The massacre of the survivors of the shipwrecked Maria off the South
Australian coast in 1840 is one of South Australia’s founding stories,
mythologised in later 19th century accounts as a meaningless act by
cowardly and bloodthirsty natives.
By Gillian Dooley
HISTORICAL BENT
A month-by-month account of what really happened In South Australia. No 2. July 19, 1873: Ayers Rock “discovered”.
TOUGH TALK IS SMOKE AND MIRRORS
I don’t suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia or fear of Fridays which
fall on the 13th. Thankfully, as I can hardly pronounce the word, let
alone spell it.
By Michael Deegan
A LUDDITE ON THE VERGE
Crash! Yet again and, ‘Damn fool computer!’ I yell once more, realising
as I crash into my fiftieth year that I’m turning into my father, who
at the red lights would mutter.
By Michael Bollen
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