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Finding Light Four Storeys Underground
From Sydney transit chaos to underground hope in Mike Hewson’s ‘The Key’s Under the Mat’ An unsettling entrance The day before I visited The Key’s Under the Mat, Sydney seemed to be quietly malfunctioning. A Telstra outage had crippled the train network on our way from the Southern Highlands. When we finally arrived, we’d seen…
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Tár: Unless You’ve Seen the Film Twice, You May Have Misread It
Todd Field’s film, Tar, required more than one viewing for it to make sense. It’s a critique of cancel culture and the corruption of power, as well as a homage to Tarkovsky.
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For some people, getting vaccinated is scarier than getting COVID
The stakes are high for the vaccine-hesitant on religious grounds. But this has a history much longer than Covid. How do we convince them it’s not the ‘mark of the beast’?
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The Choke by Sofie Laguna: Review
The Choke by Sofie Laguna is a superb piece of writing. Structurally well-crafted with prose that’s full of the vigour of youth, the nasty resourcefulness of degrading poverty.
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Walks with Margaret and Jonty
Personal essay on time spent with a neighbour through the stages of cancer during coronavirus.
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Bush Medicine: a quick look at some medicinal and useful native plants
About nine of us, including kids, got to touch, smell, crackle and rub our way through an interactive two hours of fascinating local treasures hidden in plain view.
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Goes down easy and explodes at a pre-set level
It isn’t from the depths of his immersion in computer and VR technology that his revelations unfurl. It is, rather, from a detached overview, looking down, high on the heady fumes wafting up from the cooking circuitry below him, that he is able to make his prognostications.
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Powerhouse PJ Harvey on Hope Six Tour
It’s loud but nuanced. Polly’s vocals are masterful and she soars over the industry sounds and the male voices to pierce the rafters—pitch perfect, every note. One forgets what an extraordinary vocalist she is.
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The Natural Way of Things: Review
Review of The Natural Way of Things, Stella Prize-winning novel by Charlotte Wood
