Here is a short video with glimpses of each of the stories in my new book Beyond Borders: A conversation across boundaries. The book is now published as: 1. An Apple Book in a multimedia format 2. A Kindle with links to a multimedia site. 3. As a pdf (see the link on this page) It took me … Continue reading Beyond Borders At a Glance
Beyond Borders is Now Live
Here are just a few of the images associated with stories that appear in Beyond Borders: A conversation across boundaries. The full multimedia version of the book is now available through Apple Books. For your copy just click on the Apple Book icon opposite, or use the link below, and visit the Apple Books store. … Continue reading Beyond Borders is Now Live
Beyond Borders: Prologue
This panorama is assembled from photos taken at my special place in Coogee. My first book Seen and unseen: A century of Stories from Asia and the Pacific, begins a short distance from this very site. The Prologue to my work https://soundcloud.com/maximos-russell-darnley/beyond-borders-conversations-across-boundaries-prologue Reactions to my work To paraphrase one reader's response to my latest work, … Continue reading Beyond Borders: Prologue
Beyond Borders Launch
Disposable Plastic Consumption and #COVID19
In 2018 the Australian Department of the Environment and Energy, with the participation of New South Wales, Victorian, and Western Australia commissioned the Annual Australian Plastics Recycling Survey. This aimed to provide an overview of the consumption and recycling of plastics in Australia during the 2017–18 financial year. The key findings for the period were: … Continue reading Disposable Plastic Consumption and #COVID19
Beyond Borders: Latest News
Both physical and unseen borders have long been with us but for numerous reasons have not always been permanent, their locations and porosity varying over time. When I first left Australia, travelling from Sydney to Perth and on to Singapore in 1972 I crossed as many as twenty-six ancient borders within Australia. Such ancient borders … Continue reading Beyond Borders: Latest News
Ten key statements about the Parthenon Marbles
Acropolis Museum This post was prepared for the IOCARPM blog mid-year, but the issue of reunification of all the Parthenon Marbles in the Acropolis Museum is arguably the world's most important and long-standing cultural property dispute. https://vimeo.com/342848826 The Acropolis Museum in Athens is the rightful home for all of the remaining sculptures from the Parthenon. … Continue reading Ten key statements about the Parthenon Marbles
Thinking about Crossie on Remembrance Day
Sophia Jasper Crosby is often in my thoughts and prayers. As a close friend of my maternal grandparents, she was very much a part of my earlier life. A woman of rural manners, the daughter of Christian missionaries, and the widow of a soldier from The Great War, Sophia was the most assertively British Australian … Continue reading Thinking about Crossie on Remembrance Day
‘Seen and unseen: a century of stories from Asia and the Pacific’ is now on Spotify
Reflections on Borders: Empire, Cold War and Covid19
For a wide review of these themes lookout for my latest collection of short stories, Beyond Borders.For some, the notion of borders is that of a hard border, one clearly defined and assertively maintained. Certainly, in the Covid19 era borders reflect this standard, yet borders are by no means constant, or definite, whatever the political … Continue reading Reflections on Borders: Empire, Cold War and Covid19
