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Keeping true to the commitment to watching Australian movies that I mentioned in my last review, one of my most recent watches was Da Kath & Kim Code, the 2005 telemovie adaptation of the cult classic Australian TV show Kath & Kim. If you’re at all familiar with Kath
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Another two plenaries eclipsed Day 3 of the Education Conference. The first was on Diversity in Education by the Women’s Officer Ellie Venning – whose motivation was to highlight the segregation of university courses through a panel which included Jade Poulton (ANU Women’s Officer), Libby Austin (NX General Executive,
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First Plenary: What’s wrong with our universities and what can we do about it? Day 2 of the Education Conference opened on a calmer note than the day before. Maybe it was Canberra’s icy night air, helping clear heads. Maybe it was because former student and long-time activist
Pip Williams is the Australian author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) and its sequel The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023). With Verity Laughton’s expert eye and hand, The Dictionary of Lost Words is now a smash-hit stage adaptation that swept all Australian
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'Rocky VI' dir. Aki Kaurismaki (1986) - Reviewed by Mason Horsley The 1980s were an amazing decade for cinema. Within those 10 years, filmmakers gave us some of the most defining pieces of the art form. ‘The Shining’, ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Back To The Future’, ‘Akira’, even one of
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A summary of events from the first plenary: Introduction to EdCon. More to come! The chaos that erupted in the first plenary of Day One at the 2025 National Union of Students’ Education Conference (EdCon) was, perhaps, not surprising. However lacking in information regarding the development of the EdCon events,
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I know what you’re thinking: another bloody climate play. Hard pass. But if there’s just one ‘climate play’ you should take a chance on, it’s Scenes from the Climate Era. Over the course of 65 short scenes, writer David Finnigan dissects the past, present, and future of
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Madame Bovary is a novel set in Victorian France, written by Gustave Flaubert in 1856. The novel’s complicated characters and refusal to comfort its audience has made it – especially its protagonist Emma Bovary – a subject of scrutiny. The novel follows Emma through her journey as a newlywed and through
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Once in a while, I do a YouTube binge on a particular figure. I find it happens spontaneously; one night I just feel like delving into an artist’s work and sometimes it won’t even matter whether I’m a fan (that’s certainly the case for Andy Dick)
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One of my favourite niches of film is unconventional romance. Not the 20-a-year fairytale Hollywood propaganda filmmaking that inspires you to re-download Tinder, Bumble and Hinge all at the same time. The odd, uncanny valley, just bordering on your personal limits, unconventional romantic film. You can keep your ‘Love Actually’
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Five years ago – two, even – I would have loved Pump Up The Volume. I can picture it almost too clearly – 18 year old Emma, crouched at the video player to fast-forward through the 90s ads on the home-recorded VHS tape her aunt lent her, eyes fixed on the screen so
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The staging and costuming of Lost Words is a true delight. It’s as if Esme and her friends have sprung directly from the page into the real world. Each setting is richly crafted, making use of the Scriptorium’s pigeonholes as shelves, windows, doors, letter boxes, and more.