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MY ASSESSMENT of Australia's cultural image here on the north-east coast, without the benefit of any kind of detailed survey because of a lack of resources for the purpose, is [...]

The article offers the author's perspectives regarding the developments in the Sydney Opera House. The author talks about the appointment of internationally renowned engineering firm of Ove Arup & Partners Ltd. To protect the interest of the opera house. He laso tackles the move of the New South Wales government to give architect Jorn Utzon the contract to build his competition-winning imaginative sketch.

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Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the articles in the January-February 2014 issue including "How Paul Keating Betrayed the Anzacs, and Why" by Mervyn Bendle, "America's Gun Control Dilemma" by Andrew Smith, and "The Enduring Problem of Monkey Business" by B. J. Coman.