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My son Jon was a skateboarder, one of those annoying kids on boards who skated and jumped off driveways and slid along cement edges in public car parks. We lived in Armidale at that time, a small regional city in northern New South Wales. We’d told the children when moving that Armidale was “half way between Brisbane and Sydney,” but it looked small and pretty isolated on the map. Less than a month after our arrival, the youngest, Andrew, claimed we’d misled them, pointing out: “Mum, it’s actually halfway between Guyra and Uralla !”–two even smaller rural highway towns, for which Armidale served as a larger “sponge city” (Argent et al. 2008).
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Reid, JA. (2013). Rural Boys, Literacy Practice, and the Possibilities of Difference: Tales Out of School. In: Green, B., Corbett, M. (eds) Rethinking Rural Literacies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275493_8
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