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Australian Arts

Maturity and tenderness

28 September 2024

9:00 AM

28 September 2024

9:00 AM

So now it is spring and that carnival season with its promise of Melbourne Cups and AFL grand finals hits Melbourne like a wintry joke, freezing in sporadic sunlight. One of my friends, a musical woman of prodigious talent, is walking some fraction of the Camino de Santiago. Another, wise beyond his years, has just completed a stint down the Nile.

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