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HIDDEN INSIDE HER 1970s bungalow on the outskirts of Mudgee, artist Denise Faulkner has a front-row seat at the bush theatre. As finches frolic in birdbaths, galahs chatter in the trees and echidnas rummage around for ants in the garden, Denise discreetly snaps photographs and lets her imagination run wild.

“Any creature using my birdbaths pays for the privilege by having its portrait taken,” she says with a smile, listing the wide variety of wildlife that regularly

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