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Big Country. Bigger Country Rock 'n' Roll. The Re-mains go to the Coalface. For most people, Australia conjures up images of a big red centre, populated by various versions of Mick Dundee or Steve Irwin. It's tougher than that. It takes four days to get from Sydney to Perth--east to west--and few musicians in Australia these days take on the gritty, tough audiences of rural and outback Australia, preferring instead the well worn Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane run of the east coast. But one band has found an untapped spring, a 'coalface' as it were, in this rugged terrain, and they have made it their mission to share their special pioneering brand of country rock 'n' roll around. Introducing the Re-mains, and their soundtrack to rough driving. More
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Maid in Japan Sydney Morning Herald October 11, 2005 As its young women say no to motherhood for longer, the country's population has begun to shrink, write Deborah Cameron and Willhemina Wahlin in Tokyo. More... A new picture … Japanese women are increasingly torn between family and career. Photo: Reuters