Friday essay: Under the Milky Way – how a 'beautiful accident' of a song was born and became an anthem
- Written by Chris Gibson, Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
Shutterstock (elements of this image furnished by NASA)Smiths Lake is a languid tidal inlet on the Australian east coast, flanked by gentle slopes of thick, eucalypt rainforest. Since time immemorial, this has been Worimi Aboriginal Country. Across a mile of shallow sandbars, warm seawater flows, twice a day. An eternal planetary rhythm fills and...





