I TURN on the radio in the morning and ABC AM is conducted by Sabra Lane, originally from Mildura.

I watch TV and I see Ben Knight, a local lad who started his journalism career in this town.

I watch a gardening program and I see Jane Edmanson -- I visit the National Gallery of Victoria and enjoy works by a now local Domenico de Clario, I read a complex analysis of a work of art and I am reading...