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The Domain in Sydney Australia

The Domain is a park area. It's Sydney's little version of London's Speakers' Corner where all the nuts come out to preach or to argue politics from their "soap boxes"... Except in Sydney, they stand on plastic milk crates.

Last Sunday, a walk past the NSW Art Gallery, another great place to visit, saw only three speakers outside on The Domain and they all carrying on about religion. Years ago, I remember it as much more exciting with heated political debates in full swing.

However, there were some great hecklers in the audience. They were busy interrupting the speakers and finding fault with everything they tried to say. This is a great sport for some, and is all part of living in a democracy... here we can criticize most things without being arrested for it.

The rest of the time, The Domain is a park, and is used as such by early morning joggers who live in Sydney city. And office workers from Martin Place, staff from the nearby NSW State Parliament, the Sydney Hospital and the NSW State Library go to The Domain to enjoy their lunch breaks.

The Domain is also used to stage occasional open-air concerts. Sydneysiders flock to these and sometimes wait all day, sitting on picnic blankets to reserve their place for the free show. And most times the Sydney weather behaves itself by not raining on the audience.

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