There was an appropriate amount of controversy over the decision to award the $60,000 annual Sculpture by the Sea to Amercan Peter Lundberg for his work, The Ring. “Looks like a dog turd,” said one observer of the huge bronze work on display on Tamarama Beach (above) beside the highly photogenic We’re fryin’ out here by Andrew Hankin. The exhibition, 109 sculptures displayed along a 2km stretch of magnificent coastline between Bondi Beach and its neighbouring Tamarama, is
For all of you who love books and reading, take a minute today to check out Australia’s Indigenous Literacy Foundation site. 
It will give you some idea of the great work that is being done helping Indigenous children get access to culturally appropriate books and resources in an effort to improve literacy. It also gives you the opportunity to celebrate International Literacy Day, today, and donate so that the work can increase.
Indigenous Literacy Day is organised annually by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation which has raised more than $2million over the past six years. The Foundation provides culturally books and resources to community centres, schools, mothers’ centres and other organisations across the country including in some of the most remote parts of the country.
Among the ILF’s innovative projects is the one at the remote Warburton community, in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Gibson Desert, Western Australia.