In true Easter tradition, members of the Purcell laboratoy banded together, along with their significant others, to explore the Mighty Murray on a true blue Australian houseboat.
The Murray River
Between its banks flows pride and shame, a waterway at once famous and infamous, lauded and forgotten, adored and abused - from Paul Sinclair's "The Murray: A river and its people"
"$7 a root" - Carly
"Helen is Absinthe" -
Paul
"Squeezy squeezy" - Madge
"Absinthe makes the eyes go wander" - AW
Birds of the Murray
Whatever the bird is, is perfect in the bird.
Whatever the bird does is right for the bird to do.
But I am torn and beleaguered by my own people.
The blood that feeds my heart is the blood they gave me,
and my heart is the house where they gather and fight for dominion- all different, all with a wish and a will to save me,
to turn me into the ways of other people.
If I could leave their battleground for the forest of a bird
I could melt the past, the present and the future in one
and find the words that lie behind all these languages.
Then I could fuse my passions into one clear stone and be simple to myself as the bird is to the bird.
- The Gateway Judith Wright
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