Opinion
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Celebrating 10 Years of Queenscliffe Lit Festival
This year’s Queenscliffe Literary Festival, from Friday 18 to Sunday 27 October, will bring some of Australia’s best authors and thinkers to seaside Queenscliffe on…
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Looking back at Lilydale’s hotels
There would only be a few locals now would remember that Lilydale once had the enjoyment of four Hotels. In earlier times there was once…
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Local talent shines in challenging production
1812 Theatre The Larmie Project The Bakery @1812 Theatre was the venue for The Laramie Project. A story of real life. In 1998 a gay…
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Roads neglected
Last week, our community confronted another dreadful day of serious road trauma on local roads. Condolences to the family of the man who lost his…
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. The human race Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised…
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A portrait of WW2 Italy
Echoes of War, by Australian author Tania Blanchard, is set in Calabria in Southern Italy, at the “toe” of the country’s boot-shaped peninsula. The region…
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Musical Joker a Surprising Success
Joker: Folie A Deux Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga and Brendan Gleeson Rated M 4/5 In Joker: Folie A Deux, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), aka…
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Dive into two local theatre performances
1812 Theatre The Laramie Project Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student was tied to a fence post and brutally murdered in a prairie outside…
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Australia to join Poet Laureate family
In 2025 Australia will join the US, New Zealand, UK, Canada, Jamaica, Nigeria and appoint an official Poet Laureate. Other countries such as Russia who…
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The work of a country doctor 100 years ago
In 1907 Dr Henry Vogler commenced medical practice at Yarra Glen, Queenstown and Kangaroo Ground, having graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1906 aged…
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Giving back to community
Celebrating this year’s Love Your Bookshop Day, The Star Mail recently interviewed Matt and Claire, owners of The Book Barn, the “one stop shop” in…
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The Heaven’s Gate of 2024
Megalopolis Starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito and Aubrey Plaza M 2.5/5 In Megalopolis, a sci-fi epic drama and the passion project of legendary director Francis…
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