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Cover detail from Little Hoodlum

published in 1975

Beautiful bones
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Dorothy Porter, Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, c. 1998

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Beautiful bones

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011

Sarah Engledow reflects on the shared life and writing of Dorothy Porter and Andrea Goldsmith.

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