#magic pudding

“All the best, Blue!” by Norman Lindsay.

One of the original architects of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) says it is being treated as a “limitless Magic Pudding” and local, state and territory governments need to do more to support all people living with disability.  Key points: Bruce Bonyhady is co-chairing a review into the NDIS He says there needs to be an ‘urgent rethink’ of how children are supported Advocates…

On this day, 22nd February 1879 , Australian artist and author, Norman Lindsay was born.

Norman Alfred William Lindsay was born on 22 February 1879 in Creswick, Victoria, Australia. After leaving home at age 17, he began working as principal cartoonist for the Australian Bulletin in Melbourne, whilst developing his skills as an artist. His paintings were controversial for their time, concentrating on nudes, often incorporating pagan themes of gods and goddesses, nymphs and satyrs, in an Australian bush setting. Much of his work, which includes watercolours, lithographs, and etchings, can be found at his former home at Faulconbridge, New South Wales, now the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum. As well as his prolific output of paintings, Lindsay was a writer who completed eleven novels between 1913 and 1950. His best known work  "The Magic Pudding“, is a children’s classic about a sarcastic and bad-tempered walking, talking pudding that can be whatever food it wants to be, and eaten without ever running out. 

The State Library of New South Wales holds the original drawings for