A dark fairytale for teens
A review of Deep is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson
Deep is the Fen, by Australian author Lili Wilkinson, shares the same setting as her...
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The building of the Maroondah weir and aqueduct and the Lilydale to Healesville railway in the late 1880s swelled the populations of Healesville, Tarrawarra...
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Food is a basic need essential to our survival and wellbeing and as American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed in 1943 in his pyramid of...
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Burrinja Theatre
Rachmaniov’s Symphonic Dances – Inventi Ensemble
Three simple notes open the famous symphonic Dances by Rachmaninov which then evolves into an unique work like...
Three amazing shorts from Poor Things director
Kinds of Kindness
Starring Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Emma Stone
Rated MA15+
4.25/5
The latest film from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, Kinds of Kindness is one...
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Starring Prabhas, Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone
Rated M
4/5
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Not for the faint-hearted
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Meta must pay its dues
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Q and A with Maria Millers
Thanks to The Star Mail, this reviewer recently connected with Maria Millers, founder of the Woorilla Poetry Prize.
Maria was born in Harbin, a city...
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A dark fairytale for teens
A review of Deep is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson
Deep is the Fen, by Australian author Lili Wilkinson, shares the same setting as her...
