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Streetscape of Argent Street cnr Sulphide Street in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
On the southern corner is the historic Palace Hotel, an iconic heritage building from 1889 designed by architect Alfred Dunn from Melbourne. The interior walls and ceilings of the building are covered in paintings such as a copy of Botticelli's Birth of Venus painted by the previous owner Mario Celotto who migrated from Italy in 1949 and fantasy Australian landscapes painted by Gordon Waye, an Aboriginal artist.
On the southeastern corner is Argent House from 1888 which was stripped of its original two storey verandah and detailing.
On the northern side is the war memorial from 1925 created by Charles Webb Gilbert of Melbourne and the Court House from 1889 designed by James Barnett.
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There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
