The consumption of some large fish species should be avoided for small children due to the risk of excess levels of mercury, according to new research published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
The Odyssey Quilt Project tells the stories of eleven women of Dutch origin, who refer to themselves as 'the forgotten ones'. Each delicately sewn appliquéd panel narrates their vivid emotional and physical journeys from the Netherlands via the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to Australia.
A wave of celebrations will wash over Sydney as the replica 16th century Dutch ship Duyfken arrives at her last official port of call on her epic 12,000km voyage.
Works by Elspeth Diederix, Marnix Goossens, Gert Jan Kocken, Anouk Kruithof and Jaap Scheeren, Hans van der Meer, Julika Rudelius, Gerco de Ruijter, Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig, Marike Schuurman, Roy Villevoye and Useful Photography will be represented in Dutch Dare, Contemporary Photography from the Netherlands. This exhibition will run from 19 October to 2 December 2006 at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, Australia.