Last Impressions

Arrangement in chrome and ochre, Bendigo 2010, © Ann O’Dyne.

These yellow roadcases carried valuable paintings from Woollahra, NSW, to the Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, for
Frederick McCubbin ‘Last Impressions 1907-17’

70 works depicting Melbourne and Mount Macedon (where McCubbin lived at ‘Fontainebleu’) have been curated by Dr. Anna Gray from private collections and all Australia’s major galleries.
Hanging Rock is in McCubbin country, and to enhance your gallery experience, Peter Weir’s film Picnic At Hanging Rock is on the big screen nearby at Eaglehawk’s Star Cinema ( the one with sofa-seating).
Mark your diary Saturday 29th May, and hit the Calder Highway early enough to see the paintings before the picture starts at 2pm

(picnic baskets included in the $22 ticket and drinks at bar prices) .
Adjacent to the gallery, the Botanical Gardens currently hosts The Bats, and on a footpath I saw this sleeping (I hope) baby -
for scale -... dear little Haunted Creature Of The Night.

Onya bike Carl

Babyface Nelson was a gangster spawned by US alcohol prohibition about 1930, and his crimes distracted the less-affluent class of society, from the privations of The Great Depression.

Recently, the activities of our very own baby-faced criminal has distracted tabloid society. Carl*Williams was bred into crime and could not take any other path in life, or out of it.
We can only hope his child escapes this heritage.

The photograph is copyright, and I thank the owner for the use.

This image should not be lifted and used without permission of the owner, whose name I will give on enquiry.

A family friend expressed dismay at the fact that Williams was killed in jail.

''It's supposed to be maximum security, isn't it?''

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner said it was ''too early to say'' whether the killing was linked to a report in the Herald Sun yesterday saying Victoria Police had paid Dhakota Williams' private school fees.

I wonder why it is too early to say? The resourceful murderer dismantled an exercise bike to use as a weapon. Even I could have seen the potential, so I assume prison management was complicit.

"Williams' ex-wife Roberta arrived at the prison last night.

A man who answered her mobile phone said ''f--- off, you goose''. (from The Age report.)