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Then and now: Corner shops

by Annie Tong

In the days before self-serve checkouts, 24/7 petrol stations and on-demand deliveries, most Aussie families flocked to their nearest corner shop.

‘U. Peters corner store, George Street, Waterloo’ by Australian Photographic Agency, c 1956-1960.⁣

Surface art

by Katrina Lobley

Book cover design is an intricate and sometimes baffling process that brings together authors, readers, publishers, booksellers and designers.

Winners of the Australian Book Design Awards 2021

A glossary of tapu terms

by Winnie Dunn

Inspired by Amrita Hepi.

Illustration from map The Kingdom of Tonga, c 1979

Reimagining the Pacific

by Ian Hoskins

While the Pacific has loomed large in Australia’s history, there is a riddle at the heart of our relationship with the region.

Burns Philp Pacific cruise advertisement, The Home magazine, 2 January 1936

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