In February, I listened to an ABC radio documentary about the Simpson Desert, in which Dr. Chris Dickman of Sydney University discussed the pivotal role spinifex – a spiky, slow-growing, clump-formi...
Western Australia, Day 16 Townsville: In midmorning, while en route to the Aitkenvale branch of the city library, I cycled past a row of paperbark trees alongside the Ross River. Trunks of some of the...