The first television drama series set at an Australian Antarctic research station will be developed this summer as part of the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship. Leading TV screenwriter Jane Allen (Cleverman, Janet King, Wentworth, Love Child) and award-winning novelist Dr Jesse Blackadder (Sixty Seconds, Chasing the Light) have been jointly awarded the 2018 Fellowship. During…
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Remember Slow down to 40km/h Around Schools on Monday
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Canberra motorists are being reminded to slow down around schools, with 40km/h school zones coming back into effect for the new school term from Monday. Minister for Road Safety Shane Rattenbury said that school zones are there to protect Canberra school children and urged all motorists to slow down and be vigilant during the new…
The Opposition
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Director Hollie Fifer Rated PG Score 6/6 An indigenous community in Papua New Guinea is forced to fight back before they are cruelly evicted from their land in favour of a five-star tourist hotel. I know this is not the kind of subject matter to making jokes with connections to other, and maybe if you…
The Opposition Banned from PNG Human Rights Film Festival
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Editor’s Note We have posted articles about the legal trouble The Opposition has. For those of you who want their memories refreshed Here are the links our past articles: Court Battle Surrounding Documentary The Opposition Documentary The Opposition wins first court battle The Opposition was due to screen Saturday afternoon 12th October at the PNG…
To Sir, with Love II
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Director Peter Bogdanovich Starring Sidney Poitier, Christian Payton, Dana Eskelson Rated PG Score 5/6 After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of reaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist. Considering To Sir, with Love II was the second in…
40 Years of Helicopter Rescue Service in Queensland
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has praised RACQ LifeFlight for 40 years of service to the Queensland community, describing the organisation as ‘one of our great institutions’. Speaking at a function to celebrate the launch of the anniversary, and to mark 25 years of RACQ sponsorship, the Premier said LifeFlight provided one of Queensland’s most important services.…
Why Slavery? Season on BBC
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The BBC has today announced a series of powerful films about slavery in the modern age for the Why Slavery? season. Timed for International Anti-Slavery day on 18 October, and in collaboration with The Open University, the BBC has commissioned and produced six new films for BBC Two, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer and has…
The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell
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Starring Mick Ignis, Adam Mayfield, Christine H. McConnell, Michael Oosterom & Colleen Smith Rated M Score 5.5/6 Wickedly talented baker and artist Christine McConnell fills her home with haunting confections, creepy crafts — and wildly inappropriate creatures. Yes, I am a fan of cooking shows and I find it very easy to spend an entire…
Varsity Blues – Revisited
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Director Brian Robbins Starring James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight & Paul Walker Rated M Score 3/6 A back-up quarterback is chosen to lead a Texas football team to victory after the star quarterback is injured. We have a post revisit on our hands, its been a while since I have last revisited a movie…
Unpaid Work Inequality in Victoria
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Victorian women are doing most of the state’s unpaid work, at a cost of more than $205 billion, new data has revealed. Preliminary analysis by Deloitte Access Economics has revealed unpaid work is equivalent to 50 per cent of Victoria’s Gross State Product (GSP) in 2017/18. Victorian Minister for Women Natalie Hutchins explained that the…