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Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small

Eddie Coghlan/Unsplash Review: Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin Random House, 2020)The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan’s eighth novel,...

From Kangaroo Island to Mallacoota, citizen scientists proved vital to Australia’s bushfire recovery

Picture: David Crosling/AAP Following the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20, many people throughout Australia, and across the world, wanted to know how they could...

Summer bushfires: how are the plant and animal survivors 6 months on? We mapped their recovery

State Government of Victoria/Agriculture, Water and the EnvironmentAustralia roared into 2020 as a land on fire. The human and property loss was staggering,...

Our field cameras melted in the bushfires. When we opened them, the results were startling

Picture: Taronga Zoo This article is a preview of Flora, Fauna, Fire, a multimedia project launching on Monday July 13. The project tracks the...

There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now, and coronavirus is only one of them

Picture: DAN HIMBRECHTS/AAP Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous smoke, towns running...

Want to help save wildlife after the fires? You can do it in your own backyard

Picture: Dean Ingwersen/Birdlife Australia/AAP People living in cities far from the unprecedented bushfires this summer may feel they can do little more to help beyond donating to...

Buzz off honey industry, our national parks shouldn’t be milked for money

Picture: James Dorey, Author provided (No reuse) Among the vast number of native species damaged by the recent bushfire crisis, we must not forget native pollinators. These animals,...

Disaster hits small business in many ways. We need a national strategy to help them adapt

The main street of Cobargo, NSW, Wednesday, January 1, 2020.  Sean Davey/AAP When the central business district of Lismore was flooded in 2017, every small business...

Out of control, contained, safe? Here’s what each bushfire status actually means

We’re used to images of firefighters with hoses, but more of the firefighting effort goes to clearing vegetation than spraying with water. Dean Lewins/AAP In this...

Sunday essay: this grandmother tree connects me to Country. I cried when I saw her burned

“Will it grow back Mum?” Younger family members want reassurance at Colo Heights, among the blackened trees and loose soil.  Author provided Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.