Featured Image: Photo by Andrew Watson, Palm Cockatoo, Chilli Beach, Iron Range National Park, Cape York Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 21 December 2025 Cape York Birding 2025, Lakefield and Iron Range National Parks Main Points Preamble Introduction Inala Nature Tour Day 1 Cairns to Musgrave Roadhouse, Golden-shouldered Parrot Day 2 Lakefield National Park, Red Goshawk, Star Finch Day …
Norfolk Island Postcard
Featured Image: Vista to Bird Rock from Captain Cook Monument Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 July 2025 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series …
Emily Kam Kngwarray Painter, 1914-1996
Featured Image: Detail from Wild Yam V 1995, Hassall Collection Sydney, 153 x 243 cm Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 March 2024 When I was at school (a very long time ago) the corridors were festooned with dark dusty copies of impressionists and probably even a Vermeer. When I first went to Paris, I was gobsmacked by the …
Organisational Thermometer
Featured Image: Jock Macneish My Elbow Room Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 28 March 2023 Several things coming together at once prompted me to think about Fred Emery’s ideas and my involvement in them from 1979 to the end of the 1990s. First was involvement in doing politics differently and getting an independent senator David Pocock elected into the …
Postcard from McLaren Vale
Featured Image: McLaren Vale Vineyards Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 April 2022 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series so far are: 1 Boudhanath Stupa, …
Clarice Beckett Painter, 1887-1935
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 June 2021 When I was at school (a very long time ago) the corridors were festooned with dark dusty copies of impressionists and probably even a Vermeer. When I first went to Paris, I was gobsmacked by the Impressionists in the Jeu de Paume, and similarly with Vermeer in Amsterdam and Den Haag. They …
Life Fragments
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 January 2021 Articles on my own art and exhibitions are as follows: 1 Use By 2002: my first exhibition, 2 Transit 2002: my first solo exhibition, 3 Art Collector Magazine 2003, 4 Artists Exchange Print Portfolios 2003 & 2005, 5 Tag 2005: a major solo exhibition, 6 Tag II 2007: solo exhibition, 7 Moral …
The Coal Curse Judith Brett
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 November 2020 The Coal Curse Judith Brett, June 2020 Judith Brett The Coal Curse: Resources, climate & Australia’s future, Quarterly Essay 78, 2020. The Coal Curse is the following Quarterly Essay to Cry Me a River by Margaret Simons which I used to give a 2020 update to my essay on the Murray-Darling Catastrophe. …
Pandemic Art Update
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 September 2020 Articles on my own art and exhibitions are as follows: 1 Use By 2002: my first exhibition, 2 Transit 2002: my first solo exhibition, 3 Art Collector Magazine 2003, 4 Artists Exchange Print Portfolios 2003 & 2005, 5 Tag 2005: a major solo exhibition, 6 Tag II 2007: solo exhibition, 7 Moral …
Murray-Darling Basin Update 2020
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 3 August 2020 Murray-Darling Basin Update 2020: Cry Me a River by Margaret Simons Introduction Since I wrote my article The Murray-Darling Basin Catastrophe, which has attracted attention and good feedback, the problems with the Murray-Darling have become even more prominent. Other articles on the malaise impacting Australia are The Coal Curse Judith Brett and the …
White Island, New Zealand
Featured Image: The Main Vent Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 June 2020 White Island (Whakaari) Volcanoes and Other Dangers I’ve seen and climbed on a number of volcanoes around the world including Mount Bromo in Java, Mount Agung and Mount Batur in Bali; Mount Vesuvius, with Pompei and Heraculaneum; Mount Etna and Volcano in Sicily; Mount Fuji in Japan …
The Murray-Darling Basin Catastrophe
Featured Image: WC Piguenit Flood in the Darling 1890, Oil on Canvas, 1895, 123 x 199 cm Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 November 2019 The Murray-Darling Basin Catastrophe Don’t sugarcoat it like that, Kid. Tell her straight. (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, 1969) It is long past time for sugarcoating. We should be sick of the obfuscation and …
Understanding the Banking Royal Commission, Australia
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 6 April 2019 Understanding the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, February 2019. Understanding Corporate Misconduct in General Other articles on the malaise impacting Australia are Cry Me a River by Margaret Simons a 2020 update on the Murray-Darling Catastrophe and The Coal Curse by Judith Brett. 1 Background …
Postcard from Tupare Garden New Zealand
Featured Image: Mount Taranaki, New Plymouth Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 March 2019 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series so far are: 1 Boudhanath …
Postcard from Tongariro Crossing New Zealand
Featured Image: Ruapehu over the heathland Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 February 2019 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series so far are: 1 …
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