Believing The Final Con

NONE of his own concoctions, trinkets, harmonisers or whirring machines could save Hans Rex last week, but nor did modern medicine.

A Policeman's Lot, Adam And Eve, And Trinkets Galore

Sydney's eastern suburbs this weekend will be aglitter with antique and designer furniture, sculpture, porcelain, glass and silver, with several auctioneers airing their wares. And among the small fry is a collection of British bobbies' truncheons and trayfuls of trinkets you would normally expect to find at London's Portobello Road or Camden Passage collectables markets.

Rose & Ruby Store Opening William Street, Paddington

hit This girlie jewel of a store with its soothing pastel flowers and trinkets is just the thing when shopping fatigue sets in. Guests were offered a voucher towards one of the label's gorgeous silk dresses or camisoles, which hit the spot as sweetly as the champagne. And the courtyard will be perfect for a chat between shopping sprees.

Brooch The Subject

Melbourne's jewellers are just as inspired by skyscrapers as they are by trinkets. Claire Halliday talks architecture with jewellers.

Trinkets Aren't The Trick

IT was quite the worst thing that could have happened on the first weekend of Newcastle's Mall Market in mid August, a capacity crowd of 20,000.

Brought To Heel By Flash Rivals

IT MUST have been some time in 1996 that a parcel arrived at the local post office containing a gift from Channel Seven, one of the trinkets devised by the publicity departments at the various TV networks to promote new programs or celebrate milestones for others. This one was a superb quilted jacket with "Blue Heelers: 100 episodes" emblazoned on the front.

Broad Horizons

Filled with travel trinkets and furniture from foreign lands, Felicity Rulikowski's home bears the mark of its globetrotting owner.

The Wrong White Crowd

Maoris have been told to take a step back and understand that many white people feel New Zealand also belongs to them, writes Louise Williams. CAN a white man ever be considered "indigenous" in the land his forebears stole or "bought" for a handful of trinkets and beads? New Zealand's most influential contemporary historian, Dr Michael King, insisted he could. King called himself a "white native", a member of a new race of New Zealanders so intimately connected and committed to the land of their ...

Making Of A Cereal Thriller

Worthless trinkets or keys to a common history? Michael Dwyer talks to Barry Divola about obsessive collectors and cereal toys.

The Trinkets Of A Free Spirit

Love and Clutter By Mirka Mora Viking, 138 pp, $45

Spanking New - Artful Trinkets

There is no purer tool of personal expression than a limited-edition or - better still - one-off, handmade trinket or frock. In this era of mass production, global branding and the pervasive ``sameness" of fashion from one year and continent to the next, an original brooch, or dress, or tiara, for that matter, made with passion especially for you (or, at the very worst, replicated for a like-minded few) is suddenly, immeasurably, rare and precious. (And so terribly fashionable.)

Trading Sustainability For Mere Trinkets

The Hunter risks suffering death by a thousand open cuts, according to Newcastle University academic Glenn Albrecht.

Mini Merchandise Moves Fast

Local Mini lovers are going cuckoo over the BMW brand's trinkets.

Coalition Is Back But The Fog Hasn't Cleared

The Government has some trinkets to hand out, but what about the big picture?

Holding Out For The Best

Whereas once early draft picks were thrown away for the football equivalent of trinkets and beads, clubs have placed a far higher premium on the value of the top choices this year.

The Tiff's Man

By rights and all that's logical, James Quinn (pictured right) be dangling with all manner of manly baubles and fancy trinkets. He is the vice-chairman, after all, of one of fashion's swishest labels: Tiffany & Co.

From Tourist Trinkets To The Top Of The Tree ... The Path Of Indigenous Art

Dab hand ... Brian Robinson with one of his works for the Oceanic art show.Photo: Jacky Ghossein.

Parsons' Road From Trinkets To Tears

Lucas Parsons had to win this tournament. He has been around a long time; poked his head in here and there. He has promised a lot. Built foundations, only to knock them down through some self-inflicted wounds. The time had come to deliver. If you are serious about your golf, titles like the Quee