October 2026

The boy from Bundaberg who helped shrink the world

On most mornings at Mon Repos, the sea breeze still arrives much as it did more than a century ago. It begins as a faint stir over the Coral Sea before sweeping across the dunes and coastal flats east of Bundaberg. Pelicans glide effortlessly above the surf, gulls ride invisible currents and the long beach stretches away beneath an immense Queensland sky.

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Where the sea still lies beneath the paddocks

After weeks crossing South Australia, I had become accustomed to landscapes that, for all their differences, seemed connected by a common thread. There was the mallee cleared for grazing, the fire-affected slopes of the Adelaide Hills, the Barossa shaped by vines and memory and the Lower Lakes caught in their long-standing, unresolved battle between river and sea.

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