Australians are turning to affordable retail therapy despite household spending slowing across the nation1, according to Australia Post’s latest quarterly Inside Australian Online Shopping Report. Shopping for Fashion and Apparel has spiked in FYQ4 with the number of online purchases up 19.1% on last year. Overall, online purchases grew by 2% in the past year…
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Shipwreck Hunters Season 2 Announced
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Screen Australia and The Walt Disney Company Australia and New Zealand have announced the thrilling ocean adventure Shipwreck Hunters Australia continues with season 2 for Disney+. The next six-part installment of the highly popular Australian Original documentary series follows a team of fearless ocean adventurers who dive deep to uncover new stories of incredible survivals…
Melbourne International Film Festival Program Revealed
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Beloved cultural event, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), has shared its impressive 2024 program of over 250 features, shorts and XR experiences landing across Melbourne, around Victoria and online Australia-wide this August. Running 8-25 August, this year’s film line-up boasts a world class roster of international features, an assembly of stellar World Premiere local…
RACV on Hook Turns
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An RACV poll has found that 44 per cent of Victorian respondents feel hook turns are the most challenging driving practice on Victorian roads. This was followed by parallel parking, reverse parking and three-point turns. Mostly distinctive to Melbourne, hook turns are right turns made from a left-hand lane, originally introduced to mitigate the hold…
Thin Ice VR Experience
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Thin Ice VR opens at the Australian Museum (AM) on 6 July, taking visitors on one of the world’s greatest against-all-odds adventures following in Sir Ernest Shackleton’s footsteps on the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, was trapped in Antarctic ice and had to be abandoned by the crew; what followed is regarded…
The best and the worst at an Australian Accent. According to Preply
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By Louise Carter. A study by language experts at Preply has analysed over 13,000 reviews of the most popular movies with fake Australian accents on IMDb spanning multiple decades and genres. They discovered which films have received the most complaints regarding the fake Australian accents performed, the results are in.‘’Authenticity in film matters because it…
I Still Like Star Wars but I Will not Watch The Acolyte
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Hard Target #movietrivia
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Australia Post Expands Next Day Delivery Service
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Australia Post has just expanded its next-day delivery service, Australia Post Metro, to Adelaide. This delivery service provides eligible retailers and their customers with speed and more certainty when they shop online. The launch of the new service is a direct response to the Adelaide community continuing to embrace the online shopping trend with consistent…