The Deeper North

Tour guides John Doyle and Tim Flannery delve into the Top End, writes Sacha Molitorisz.

Revelling In The Roar Of The Crowd

BESIDES building state-of-the-art stadiums that will soon have tumbleweeds blowing through them and stationing three attendants at every toilet block, another way the organisers of the Beijing Olympics spent $50 billion was by putting a television in each room at the media village that provided a direct feed to each event - as well as channels devoted exclusively to strangely meditative single camera shots of the "live action" from the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.