Who Stole the Southern Cross? A Cautionary Tale for Public Art

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Geological pit stops: Kate Hill and Isadora Vaughan
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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Curator and cultural visionary Kevin Murray asks what happened to Southern Cross Station, once Spencer Street Station now lost under a morass of advertising. Where is the public art?

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