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The Queensland Experiment: A Memoir of Childhood Uprooted

It was early 1977, the tail-end of a stinking hot Melbourne summer. My father's eyes gleamed as he pored over the newspaper. "There's a job at a rural town council in Queensland,” he announced. “They’re introducing natural gas.” I lounged by the radio, hanging

Oh To Have the Confidence of an Apple Music Editor

Whenever I need a fillip, I listen to "Manchild" and am blown away all over again by the richness of that moment. So much emotion and beauty is contained in that sound ... as the strings continue behind Neneh's plaintive vocals. So it was annoying to read the Apple Music summary of the album.