Douglass Baglin

AScol/and Island Ku-ring-gai Chase is an area of sandstone gorges, drowned valleys and open heathland tops; a preserve of natural bushland and a sanctuary for wildlife situated only 20 miles from the centre of Sydney. Bordered on the north by the waters of Broken Bay, it covers an area of over...

Australia is many things to many people, infinite in variety and splendour, beautiful, harsh and uncompromising. It is a patient land, vast, full of contrasts, and totally unpredictable. Australia is unique in being the smallest most sparsely populated continent and the world's largest island. Its...

'Rough as Guts" is an old Australian expression with a wealth of meaning- from an expression of admiration, toughness, ingenuity to slapdash and vuigar. Its meaning varies with how it is expressed by the individual; ít is widely used as an epithet throughout Australia. This country is in the main...

Sydney, the largest city in the driest of continents, is a city of water. It spreads around the bays and inlets of one of the finest natural harbours in the world, and reaches up and down a coast scalloped with broad sandy beaches, northward to the deep fjord-like indentations of Broken Bay and...