For many years, Australians found that life in the shacks that popped up along the southern coast. Asbestos sheets were nailed onto timber frames, with a few small windows cut in and not much else. While many mourn the loss of the classic shack, most had little to recommend their continued existence, other than rose-tinted nostalgia.
Such was the case for a little 100 square-metre shack on the beachfront in Carrickalinga. Nothing could be done to save or extend it, given what we now know about that particular cement sheeting. What the owners,
