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Film-maker Clive Neeson, who bounces between Claremont, WA, and Taranaki in New Zealand, will unveil nearly 50 years of adventure onto the big screen when his life work, Last Paradise, opens next month in Perth. Clive, who completed two years of medical school before becoming a physicist, has a driving passion for the physical sciences and the TIFFS KPZ PG UIF PVUEPPS MJGF
certain weight. I hated having to do it, but I knew it was necessary. I needed to put a system in place that would keep things in some sort of order.� i* WF CFFO TFFJOH B QTZDIPMPHJTU PODF B GPSUOJHIU GPS UIF MBTU UXP BOE B IBMG ZFBST BOE * WF CFFO HPJOH UP B EJFUJDJBO GPS B MPOH UJNF .Z (1 is wonderful and she understands my situation really well.� Susanne, approaching her mid-40s with two young children, freely BENJUT TIF DBO U TVTUBJO UIF USBJOJOH SFHJNF SFRVJSFE GPS IJHIMZ DPNQFUJUJWF SPXJOH /POFUIFMFTT UIF GMFYJCJMJUZ PG CPUI BO FRVBMMZ BDUJWF husband and her medical specialty sees Susanne out on the water two or three times a week. “I used to train really hard when I was competing at a high level, but that was before marriage and children. My husband, who works in hospital occupational health and safety, is a keen mountain-biker so we have to keep everything fair and balanced.� i*U T JOUFSFTUJOH UIBU NPTU PG NZ SBEJPMPHZ DPMMFBHVFT BSF FRVBMMZ DPNNJUUFE UP IFBMUI BOE GJUOFTT *U T B TQFDJBMUZ UIBU MFOET JUTFMG UP a balanced lifestyle and you can structure your day quite easily. If ZPV SF B XBSE CBTFE DMJOJDJBO JU DBO CF B MPU NPSF VOQSFEJDUBCMF w 4VTBOOF XBYFT MZSJDBM SFHBSEJOH UIF MPOHFWJUZ BOE QMFBTVSFT PG rowing. i*U T TPNFUIJOH ZPV DBO EP VOUJM B SJQF PME BHF * IBE B DPBDI JO IJT T IF T TUJMM SPXJOH BOE JO GBDU IF XBT CBDL JO B CPBU UXP XFFLT BGUFS B UPUBM IJQ SFQMBDFNFOU *U T B CJU MJLF TXJNNJOH JU VTFT FWFSZ NVTDMF JO your body. And the endorphin hit is wonderful!� O
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i* E BMXBZT XBOUFE UP NBLF B GJMN BOE TPNF PG UIJT GPPUBHF HPFT back nearly 50 years. All the people involved were friends from New ;FBMBOE 8F XFSF KVTU SFMJWJOH PVS ZPVUI BT B CVODI PG XJEF FZFE kids playing in the wilderness.� i*U T TP JNQPSUBOU UP SFUBJO UIBU DIJMEIPPE FYDJUFNFOU UP LFFQ UIBU grin on your face and a sense of wonder at the world around us. The action in Last Paradise JT BNB[JOH CVU UIF TFDPOEBSZ JOUFOUJPO JT UP make people think more deeply.� 8" XSJUFS 5JN 8JOUPO o OP TUSBOHFS UP FOWJSPONFOUBM DBVTFT o XJMM JOUSPEVDF UIF GJMN BU JUT 1FSUI TDSFFOJOH #PUI $MJWF BOE 5JN BSF QBTsionate advocates of a closer relationship with the natural world. “There have been some very damaging changes since the 1970s and T XIFO XF GJSTU CFHBO GJMNJOH /BUVSBM QMBZHSPVOET IBWF CFFO EFTUSPZFE XF SF MJWJOH JO B QFSQFUVBM DPNGPSU [POF BOE ZPVOH QFPQMF have forgotten how to manage difficult situations.� i5IFZ SF OPU FYFSDJTJOH UIFJS ASJTL NVTDMFT BOZNPSF BOE XF SF HFUting too comfortable living in a nanny state.� $MJWF T CBDLHSPVOE JT B UFTUBNFOU UP UIF GSVJUGVM NBSSJBHF PG UIF UXP DVMUVSFT o BSU BOE TDJFODF o BOE JUT BCJMJUZ UP IBSOFTT UIF QPXFST PG imagination and innovation. “I helped to develop the first digital camera and climate monitoring system. The technology was utilised for robotic vision and morphed into a Skype variant used for remote surgery in the 1980s.� i*U T XFMM LOPXO UIBU GFXFS ZPVOH QFPQMF BSF TUVEZJOH TDJFODF BOE XF OFFE UP DIBOHF UIBU *U T TP JNQPSUBOU UP SFUBJO UIBU TFOTF PG XPOder and I hope that comes through in the film.� -BTU 1BSBEJTF TDSFFOT BU -VOB -FFEFSWJMMF .BZ O
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