Archive for January, 2007

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Melbourne Welcomes You

Station Pier (photo: Simon Sellars). There used to be a sign here saying ‘Melbourne Welcomes You’, the first thing we saw when we got off the boat, I imagine.
I was asked to contribute some thoughts about my family’s immigration story to the second book in Jim Hammerton’s ‘Ten-Pound Poms’ series. Ours is a strange tale, […]

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Sunday, January 14th, 2007

Micronations Competition Winner

Finally, we are in a position to announce the winner of our Micronations competition, where we asked readers to invent their own micronation for the chance to win a copy of the new Lonely Planet book on home-made nations (or model states, or micronations; whatever you care to call them).
And the winner is Adam Kadmon, […]

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