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‘Boy Erased’ delivers a message of Biblical importance

Jay AndersonNovember 8, 2018

This year we’ve received a slew of queer films. From Rafiki, the defiant lesbian romance, to Love, Simon, the feel-good adolescent dramedy, queer storytelling i...

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Lessons from the Aussie who paddled the highest kayak on Earth

Rhonda ChapmanNovember 8, 2018

Australian adventurer and explorer Dan Bull recently took out the Guinness World Records title for “The Highest Kayak on Earth” after kayaking near the summit o...

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‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’: A middlebrow reboot of the beloved series

Daniel PattersonNovember 7, 2018

It was only a matter of time until Sony brought anti-heroine Lisbeth Salander back to the big screen, only this time it wouldn’t be helmed by the legendary Davi...

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Social reinvestment reducing the world’s highest Indigenous incarceration rates

Talya HammondNovember 5, 2018

Aboriginal people have been overrepresented in the incarceration system since the confederation; as old as the state itself. Remnants of Australia’s colonial pa...

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‘A Star is Born’: The rebirth of two stars

Darren HalstedNovember 1, 2018

I am sitting at the very back row of seats. The lights dim, and applauding crowd crescendos. My pulse races as the classic Warner Bros Pictures sequence signals...

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Artist interview: Glades

Ailish DelaneyNovember 1, 2018

In between music festivals and video clips, Karina Wykes and Cameron Robertson from electronic indie-pop trio Glades found the time to chat to Grok about their ...

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‘Halloween’: An unfocused slasher which hits fun legacy sequel beats

Daniel PattersonOctober 30, 2018

After October 31, 1978 Haddonfield, Illinois and Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) would never be the same. John Carpenter’s 1978 indie hit Halloween was a ga...

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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: A shallow and formulaic biopic for a completely unformulaic band

Daniel PattersonOctober 29, 2018

Queen are legends. And if you didn’t know that already, well, they’re going to reiterate it to you throughout Bohemian Rhapsody, don’t you worry! Directed by...

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Giving Medusa back her head

Tabitha DowdingOctober 29, 2018

I am Medusa. I am she who turns men to stone. I am she who was beheaded. She who has gone unheeded, unheard, unwept. I am ignored, the unseen, the forgotten. ...

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The White Australia policy: Decades or days ago?

Emma RubenOctober 25, 2018

The White Australia policy feels like it was centuries and centuries ago. And in the minds of many Australians, it was. Ending in the same year as the Vietnam W...

LatestPolitics & Economics

‘Boy Erased’ delivers a message of Biblical importance

Lessons from the Aussie who paddled the highest kayak on Earth

‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’: A middlebrow reboot of the beloved series

Social reinvestment reducing the world’s highest Indigenous incarceration rates

‘A Star is Born’: The rebirth of two stars

Artist interview: Glades

‘Halloween’: An unfocused slasher which hits fun legacy sequel beats

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: A shallow and formulaic biopic for a completely unformulaic band

Giving Medusa back her head

The White Australia policy: Decades or days ago?

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