Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety, Shane Rattenbury, has announced changes that mean e scooters and similar e-mobility devices will be legal to ride in the ACT by Christmas. “Many ACT residents are keen to take advantage of e-scooters and similar e-mobility devices. I’m pleased to announce that these devices will be legal…
Funding for Regional Victorian Performance Tours
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A smorgasbord of creative events and performances are set to tour Victoria’s regional cities and towns in 2020, including hip-hop, ballet, theatre, orchestras and children’s shows. Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley has announced the latest round of the Andrews Labor Government’s Touring Victoria program, with nearly $600,000 helping nine grant recipients take 160 creative…
Increased Funding for Victoria’s Botanic Gardens
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The Andrews Labor Government is preserving and improving Victoria’s precious botanic gardens with more than $1.4 million for gardens across the state. “Victoria is blessed with beautiful gardens and these grants will help them remain healthy for future generations.” Victorian Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change, Lily D’Ambrosio commented “Botanic gardens are the lifeblood…
Netflix Orders New Korean Sci-Fi Series
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Netflix has announced a new Korean original series The Silent Sea (working title) and confirmed actor Jung Woo-sung serving as an executive producer of the show, which is set in a precarious future where Earth is running out of water. The Silent Sea is a mystery sci-fi thriller that follows a story of elite scientists…
Larissa Manoela’s Airplane Mode to premiere on Netflix in January
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Netflix has revealed the key art of Airplane Mode, Brazilian feature starred by Larissa Manoela and Erasmo Carlos. The movie, which marks the first role of Larissa in a Netflix original production and is due to premiere on January 23, 2020. Airplane mode tells the story of young digital influencer Ana (Larissa Manoela). Addicted to…
Tough New Penalties for Tossing Lit Cigarettes from Car Windows
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From 17 January 2020, motorists caught tossing a lit cigarette will be penalised five demerit points. This is the first time a demerit point penalty has been imposed on this type of offence. If a motorist commits the offence during a total fire ban, the penalty will double to 10 demerit points and a fine…
A Look at Australian Television: Police Rescue Season 1 Episode 1: Mates
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Director Michael Carson Written by Peter Schreck Starring Gary Sweet, Sonia Todd, Steve Bastoni, John Clayton, Tammy Macintosh Rated PG Score 4.5/6 ‘Mickey” struggles with now being a weekend dad, tries to help a potential suicide, and has an altercation with his Inspector. For those of you who haven’t heard of Police Rescue, it’s an…
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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What did you think of The Rise of Skywalker? Director J.J. Abrams Starring Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega & Oscar Isaac Rated M Score 3/6 The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once more in the final chapter of the Skywalker saga. The Disney sequel and the Skywalker is finally at an end. I…
TAC Christmas Road Safety Campaign
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The heartbreaking moment that a family member is told a loved one has been killed is at the centre of the Transport Accident Commission’s pre-Christmas safety push. Minister for Roads, Road Safety and the TAC Jaala Pulford joined the TAC and Road Safety Victoria to urge Victorians to think about their loved ones and the…
10000 Downloads for SharkSmart app
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Western Australian ocean users have got behind the McGowan Government’s new SharkSmart WA app with more than 10,000 people downloading the app in just over a month. WA Fisheries Minister Dave Kelly said the app is being promoted as part of the McGowan Government’s new Sea Sense campaign, which is raising awareness of personal water…
WA’s Newest Bridge Dedicated to World War 1 Hero
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Premier Mark McGowan and Transport Minister Rita Saffioti joined representatives from the Throssell family and the Returned Services League (RSL) recently to officially announce the State’s newest bridge has been named the Hugo Throssell VC bridge. Situated along Armadale Road and over Nicholson Road, the bridge is part of $145 million Armadale Road duplication project,…
Tom Wills
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Directed by Maurice Dowd & Christopher Sferrazza Rated M Score 5/6 The incredible true story of Australia’s first celebrity sportsman. In the 1860s Tom Wills was the finest cricketer and footballer of his era – ‘The Champion of The Colony’. Until history erased him from the record books after his tragic death. I kind of…
River Street
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Director Tony Mahood Starring Aden Young, Bill Hunter, Essie Davis Rated M Score 5/6 Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station. Sentenced to community service at a local day centre, Ben’s influence with a young tearaway forces him…
High in the Clouds to be Adapted into Animated Feature
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Netflix and Gaumont are producing a new animated feature from iconic songwriter, author and filmmaker, Paul McCartney titled High in the Clouds based on the popular children’s adventure novel of the same title by McCartney and Geoff Dunbar, and Philip Ardagh. An imaginative teenage squirrel named Wirral finds himself pulled into a ramshackle gang of…
Netflix Announces Spotify Series
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Netflix has announced the untitled scripted series about the Swedish start-up that shook the entire music industry and evolved into becoming one of the world’s leading music services – Spotify. The limited series is inspired by the book ‘Spotify Untold’ by authors Sven Carlsson and Jonas Leijonhufvud – both business reporters at Swedish Dagens Industri…
Remnants of the Order: A Star Wars Fan Film
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Director Kees van Hattum Starring July Janssen, Abel Sanders, Anwar Lachman Score 6/6 Pai has grown up under the reign of the Empire. Although she’s hardly taken notice of the intergalactic war raging around her, she’ll soon find that destiny cannot be kept at bay. Wow. I am so glad that I stumbled across this…
Jarhead: The Law of Return
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Director Don Michael Paul Starring Devon Sawa & Robert Patrick Rated MA Score 2/6 Major Ronan Jackson, an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator, is shot down while flying through Syrian airspace. After miraculously surviving the crash, Jackson is taken captive by a group of Hezbollah militiamen.…
Ghostbusters: Afterlife – Trailer Review
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This is like my second ever trailer review. I think. I am not sure if there are going to be more of these by me considering that they are a staple of most other blogs, but I have watched this trailer for the second time in about five minutes I kind of had to get…