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  • Seven Strands – Candace Zalloua

    Seven Strands – Candace Zalloua

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    The first string was violet, as many were. A co-worker I rarely spoke to, apart from telling her coffee orders. I refused to be excited because I refused to be brave. Then one day, she knocked three coffees off the machine that she was in the middle of making. Hot coffee poured onto her hands,…

  • Dan in Real Life – Film Review Friday

    Dan in Real Life – Film Review Friday

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    Mason Horsley
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    It’s a Friday night at 6PM, you have work in the morning and your friends are all out drinking at the club. They asked you to come out but you’re simply too tired, don’t want to spend any money and don’t feel like dressing up. It’s a Friday night at 6PM and you just want…

  • WE ARE ALL BEETLES – Jacob Wood

    WE ARE ALL BEETLES – Jacob Wood

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         All morning he twined the coarse rope through his hands. But now he was just trying to ignore the agonising thudding beneath the angry anthill that had formed on his left forearm. It was tipped a violent red and sensitive to any sort of glancing touch. The skin there was gummy with sweat, pus building…

  • [ ] – David Allen

    [ ] – David Allen

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    The Tert
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  • NSW Law Society throws weight behind Voice

    NSW Law Society throws weight behind Voice

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    Kirsten Hammermeister
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    The Council of the Law Society of NSW has announced their support for the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Australian Constitution. Society President, Cassandra Banks, said “the paramount voices in respect of issues concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait…

  • TIM, a theatrical adaptation of an out-of-the-ordinary love story to be presented at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre by Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions

    TIM, a theatrical adaptation of an out-of-the-ordinary love story to be presented at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre by Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions

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    Serena Emanuele
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    TIM will be presented by Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions from the 16th to the 19th of August at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre as part of its premiere regional tour. Tim McGarry’s adaptation of Australian icon Colleen McCullough’s novel TIM sensitively focuses on the unorthodox relationships between Mary, a business woman in her…

  • Barbie Was Already Kenough

    Barbie Was Already Kenough

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    The Tert
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    Written by K.M.D. I’ve always been a Barbie girl. Ever since I was little. My favourite of the Barbie films was Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses. I had over 30 Barbie dolls which are now lurking in some tub under my bed. Oh, and one Ken. So, it was no surprise that I went…

  • Coil to be presented at IPAC by Merrigong Theatre Company and re:group performance collective

    Coil to be presented at IPAC by Merrigong Theatre Company and re:group performance collective

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    Serena Emanuele
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    Merrigong Theatre Company and re:group performance collective present a trailblazing fusion of theatre and technology. Coil, performing at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 26-29 July.   A tender elegy to the shutting of the neighbouring video store, Thirroul’s Leading Edge Video, Coil smudges the edges of theatre and film while compelling the audiences’ collective memories…

  • Welfare not warfare: the final day of Edcon 2023.

    Welfare not warfare: the final day of Edcon 2023.

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    Will Olteanu
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    Edcon is now behind us! Here’s a recap of the final day of Edcon 2023.   Housing with Max Chandler-Mather Xavier Dupe, NUS Education Officer, opened the plenary, speaking on the housing crisis. “Tenants are being forced to bid against each other as landlords take advantage… This is a manufactured crisis.” He also made Socialist…