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The 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival will take place at venues across Melbourne from 8-12 May. The event features a diverse range of conversations, talks, workshops…

Have you ever gone on a bush walk or even just a stroll in your local park, botanical garden or nature reserve? Or, simply spent…

All Australians deserve access to a strong, reliable, and affordable healthcare system that is close to home. But here in the Yarra Ranges, with an…

Civil War Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny MA15+ 4.25/5 The fourth film from writer-director Alex Garland, Civil War is a riveting, superbly-crafted…

Curious Tides, by French-Canadian author Pascale Lacelle, is a dark academia fantasy novel for fans of magic, mystique and moon-gazing. Simply put, dark academia is…

The 1812 Theatre The Fire Raisers This dark comedy is set in a town that is regularly stacked by arsonists. Disguised as door-to- door salesmen,…

Last week watching the John Farnham documentary and hearing his career changing song, You are the Voice made me reflect on how infrequently we are…

Monkey Man Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley and Sikandar Kher Rated MA15+ 4.5/5 The directorial debut of star Dev Patel, Monkey Man is a harrowing,…

To describe Emma Ling Sidnam’s Backwaters as the journey of a fourth-generation Chinese New Zealander to discover her identity is to underestimate the book’s rich…

Burrinja Theatre Umbilical Brothers – The Distraction Winner Best Comedy at the Adelaide Fringe Festival Do you love staring at screens? Are you staring at…

Facilitators were fearful of the container deposit scheme being shut down or fined for lack of a council-approved permit.

Any day now, with warm autumn weather and hopefully some seasonal rains on the way, you may start coming across mushrooms, suddenly appearing unannounced on…