Yesterday (September 3rd) as Merchant Navy Day, and recognises Australian service and civilian personnel who served on merchant vessels for more than a century. It should be noted that Merchant Navy Day falls on 3 September each year, the anniversary of the sinking of the first British merchant vessel in the Second World War in…
Victorian Government Net Swap Program
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From this Friday, recreational fishers with opera house nets can swap them for wildlife friendly open-top lift nets for free at any one of 45 tackle stores throughout Victoria. Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford announced the buy-swap initiative today in Ballarat, which will help raise awareness of the impending ban on opera house nets in…
Royal Melbourne Show Getting the Okay from Safety Inspectors
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Product safety experts have examined 341 show bags set for the Royal Melbourne Show and removed dangerous items to ensure there are no nasty surprises for show-goers. Minister for Consumer Affairs Marlene Kairouz was joined by students from St Margaret Mary’s Spotswood Primary School today, who were given the chance to road test the show…
Short film Armour apart of Woolmark’s New World Wool Campaign
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Natasha Liu Bordizzo stars in Armour, a short film written and directed by Ben Briand as part of The Woolmark Company’s ‘New World Wool’ campaign, marking 50 years of successful Australian wool trade with China. Filmed primarily in the iconic landscape of rural Tasmania, well-known as a top producer of Merino wool, beautiful romanticism collides…
Australian Cast Announced for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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Producers Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions are delighted to confirm the cast of the Australian premiere production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The Australian cast of 42 performers will be led by Gareth Reeves as Harry Potter, Paula Arundell as Hermione Granger, Gyton Grantley as Ron Weasley, Lucy Goleby…
Netflix to Stream The Rise of Phoenixes
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Netflix has announced that it will stream new Mandarin series The Rise of Phoenixes in over a dozen languages to members around the world starting 14 September 2018. The series features iconic names in the Mandarin movie industry including Shen Yan and Liu Haibo (Chinese Style Relationship) as directors, William Chang (The Grandmaster, In the…
2018 Hear For You Film Festival Winners Announced
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The winners of Australia’s first film festival by deaf teenagers, the Hear For You Film Festival, have just been announced. The inaugural national Film Festival, supported by Australian Hearing, is the first of its kind in Australia and is an opportunity for any deaf or hard of hearing secondary school students to script, shoot and…
Recycling Coffee into Coffee Cups
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A Macquarie PhD student believes he’s come up with a way to turn coffee waste into biodegradable plastic coffee cups. He’s developed a method to turn coffee grounds into lactic acid, which can then be used to produce biodegradable plastics, and is now refining the process as he finishes his PhD. “Australians consume six billion…
Mission Impossible: Fallout
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Director Christopher McQuarrie Starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames & Vanessa Kirby Rated M Score 4.5/6 Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. Following the 6 mission impossible movies has required a similar investment of time that is necessary with the marvel…
The Furies – Tony D’Aquino Interview
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A big thank you to director Tony D’Aquino for taking time out of his schedule to answer some question about the release of his new movie The Furies, that was shot in the Canberra Region at Bywong.