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Australia is the 6th largest country in the world by land mass and is the smallest continent. The vast majority of people live in urban centres, and Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world. Australia's population is approximately 22 million, and it is not regarded as an important country in world terms.
According to aboriginal history (the native people of Australia), Australia was settled originally by people who walked over 40,000 years ago in the last ice age, apparently from Africa, and the same people also settled on nearby islands including New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. A more recent suggestion is that they may have alternatively come from India and that there may have been people in Australia prior to that migration.
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Deep thoughts by Enki
Reality is about more than getting all the facts right. No one understands this more than artists.
"It is important to realize that the expressive photograph (the "creative" photograph) or the informational photograph does not have directly proportional relationship to what we call reality. We do not perceive certain values in the subject and attempt to duplicate them in the print. We may simulate them, if we wish to, in terms of reflection density values, or we may render them in related values of emotional effect. Many consider my photographs to be in the "realistic" category. Actually, what reality they have is in their optical-image accuracy; their values are definitely "departures from reality." The viewer may accept them as realistic because the visual effect may be plausible, but if it were possible to make direct visual comparison with the subjects, the differences would be startling." - Ansel Adams
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True freedom begins when you stop running from your own reflection. When you no longer reject the parts of yourself you do not understand. When you embrace the duality within, the contradictions, the complexity of your being. Only then can you move beyond illusion, beyond limitation.
– Dame Dove Hepburn (1980–2025)
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