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| It's a city that's still growing |
| still growing |
| Texts were edited to make each contribution short and pithy. Every attempt was made to make sure that the character and content of each contribution was retained. |
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| The most distant station is 'Limestone', the sheep station. |
| was known as the sheep station |
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| The chief beauty lies in the hills, mainly of trachyte formation which surround it like a crown and in foliage which abounds everywhere |
| hills surround it like a crown |
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| ...at the threshold.....of the vast pastoral districts of the interior |
| was threshold of interior |
| became |
| foliage abounded everywhere |
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| Ipswich has its downs - it needs to get a good touch-up to get with the times |
| needs to get with the times |
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| It's a slow growing, mind-numbing place |
| can be a mind numbing place |
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| Some "censorship" was used on this text but it was simply a repeat of the censorship used by the young person who made the comment. The text above was spoken as a comment, but when encouraged to write down the same as a spontaneous comment, the young person dropped 'touch-up' from the comment. |
| This comment was edited to suggest that it was not a broad comment, but a comment from one person. All of the community representatives rejected this text, but discussions with the former GAL Director confirmed that there was a need to avoid hiding a comment that has broad meaning. Louise suggested that some people who go to shop in a large city like Brisbane could go away from the experience, feeling quite "mind-numbed". |
| Showing at Global Arts Link Ipswich |
| A Text Artwork by Alan Tulloch |