Snippets from My Newspapers.
Taken from an article by Mike O'Connor (I could type out the whole thing but it is quite long): "If you are looking for a place in which to hide from our politics and politicians, a town in Norway called Kirkenes, sme400km north of the Arctic Circle, is as good a place as any in which to do it. Alas, you can't hide forever and, in any case, it was so cold that I feared I was in danger of losing one or more of my more treasured extremities. So, holidays done, we retreated down the green, serene and incredibly beautiful coast of Norway and headed back to dear old Oz. When the jet lag fog cleared, I discovered that the federal government had been spending our money wisely in our absence with the National Gallery paying $14m for a 13-tonne chunk of fabricated stainless steel that is said to represent a snake eating ts tail. The Australian newspaper's art critic, Christopher Allen, described it as "an example of the incompetent management of our Natinal Gallery&quo