Let's beat the heat by making school cool

Students, especially those in public schools, are obliged to learn in sweltering conditions in many classrooms throughout the state during prolonged hot periods. Of course, grumpy old people will relate stories of how they survived above-century days and nights that lasted for several weeks when they were in uninsulated tin sheds for schools and how they found it character-building and good for the soul. My final three years of school education were at Condobolin before airconditioning was invented and I can vouch that little learning occurred in most summer months.

Dynamic mixed dozen

A group of winemakers is setting the pace for diversity and change in the Barossa Valley.

Kidnap charges after police free men

SEVEN people faced court last night after police rescued three alleged kidnap victims in early morning raids.

Boom crash opera begins with a little bit of this and a touch of that

THIS is where Sydney's big night out begins, where some of its most spectacular moments are imagineered: in a humble tin shed, signposted The Lab, that sits in a backyard at Leppington, about 50 kilometres from the city.

Star quality shines through in a shed with holes

A HEAVENLY new take on the good old Aussie sports shed that captures elements of an endless clean blue sky and a starry, starry night has made it to the finals of next month's World Architecture Festival awards in Barcelona.

... but an agonising wait ahead

David Marr visited immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island and encountered the complexity of sorting legitimate refugees from the rest.

CAFE REVIEW

Workshop Espresso, The Galeries Victoria, 500 George Street, city (9264 8836).

A peek inside this domain will be enough for most women

SO, ROB Hulls, Victorian Attorney-General, wants to do away with the exemption that allows private clubs to discriminate on the basis of gender. "In this day and age," he wrote in this paper recently, "it's hard to imagine the value of a men's club too exclusive for the current governor-general, deputy prime minister or chief justice of the Supreme Court.��

Painting without borders

It comes under a number of names; naive art, outsider art, art brut, raw art, primitive. For a better description, collector Mark Schaller prefers the word "uninformed", a reference to the artists' disregard for the conventional way of doing things.

Six Decades Of Flight Marked

FROM tin shed to transport hub, Newcastle Airport will mark its transformation today the 60th anniversary of its inaugural commercial flight.

Humble Hut Nursed Slice Of Theatre History

In the oldest part of the University of NSW campus, on the site of what was once Kensington racecourse, in a tin shed beside a group of fig trees, Sydney's home-grown theatre was born.

`shed' Has Changed

CLUB Stalwarts remember the original South Leagues Club as a `tin shed' on the corner of Llewellyn and Winsor streets, Merewether (built in 1955).

Heat Rises Over Detainees' Tin Shed

The continuing detention of 172 asylum seekers who have spent a month locked in a tin shed in tropical heat has so concerned Australia's main human rights body it wants the Prime Minister to intervene.