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A City Girl: In memory of Mary Ann Deveney (1852-1896)
(After Henry Lawson’s ‘A Bush Girl’) By Anne Casey She’s walking in the dark and rain, as her mother had before. Her skirts are dragging in the drain, her feet are tired…
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Seriously Red: Movie Review
Review by: Stacey O’Carroll Director: Gracie Otto Writer: Krew Boylan Available: iTunes, Fetch, Amazon Prime, Google Play, Telstra TV Box Office. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” Dolly…
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Spent: Game Review
Review by: Alex Hatzidakis Release: February 2011 Platforms: Mobile and browser Developers: McKinney & Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD) Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6,000 people every year. But you’d never…
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The Inheritance: Vignettes
By Annette Koco MARGHERITA Margherita walked the long cobblestone path down to the lake as she had done so many times before. The stone steps were steeply terraced and regularly punctuated…
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Last stop
By Denise O’Hagan. Last stop North Sydney, 11.30 am, 2020 He was sitting at the bus stop A neat grey figure, hands folded Formal in his trousers, shirt and tie…
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Scarcity Commission, a cento
By Anne Casey The potato crop has nearly disappeared; much distress at present exists amongst the labouring classes⎯ tradesmen and others are severely suffering from want of food; potatoes are…
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Emily: Movie Review
Review by: Stacey O’Carroll Writer/Director: Frances O’Connor Available: Selected cinemas “Everyone’s strange if you look at them for long enough.” Branwell Brontë, Emily (2022) For many years, I have watched the talented…
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Ellen Lewis
Ellen Lewis is a Naarm-based student completing her undergraduate degree in Media and Communications, majoring in cinema and screen studies. When she isn’t working in hospitality, Ellen enjoys writing about pop culture…
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Speciation: A Cento Evolution of New South Wales child removal laws, from inception to present iteration
By Anne Casey. 1866-1901 Every child whose age shall not exceed sixteen years found lodging, living, residing or wandering about in company with reputed thieves or persons who have no…
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Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever: Movie Review
Review by: Jill Sioson 2022 | Directed by Ryan Coogler Feature Film (2hrs, 41 min) “If I sit and think of my brother for too long then it won’t be just…
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Life Unfurling
By Ellen Lewis Chicken Soup The bank is steep, cold and wet. Her little hands and knees have scraped against the gravel, and there is blood seeping into the blue of…
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House of Rot
By PJ Petraitis To my pupil and friend, or to anyone given the right to the Holy Archives, the following are the last known writings of famed author and poet W—- K—-W—-…
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A. M. Joseph
I am a writer based in Melbourne, Australia currently studying a master’s degree in writing. I am passionate about using my voice to tell the stories of marginalised groups who are often…
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Stay Close to Me: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Publisher: Simon & Schuster RRP: $19.95 Release Date: 1 January 2023 What if? That is the question the three protagonists in bestselling British author Helen Warner’s novel Stay…
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Vanessa Perera
Vanessa Perera was born and raised in Sri Lanka but was compelled to move far away from home amid an economic recession. She is passionate about narrating stories about cultural experiences, insecurities,…
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When life gives you lemons…
By Vanessa Perera After spending the entire day sorting out bills, the dining table was filled with receipts, notes, and scraps of paper. Jane was now obsessively polishing the silverware to impress…
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Amy Bertacco
Amy Bertacco is a Swinburne University of Technology student who is completing a Bachelor of Media and Communication with a major in creative writing and public relations. She has always loved words…
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Out of Breath: Novel Review
Review by Stacey O’Carroll Author: Anna Snoekstra Release Date: 2022 Sometimes instead of running away from our past, we run straight into something far worse: the kindness of strangers. In Out of Breath, the…
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PJ Petraitis
PJ Petraitis is currently studying a Bachelor of Media and Communication with a major in Creative Writing and Literature at Swinburne University. They are a keen reader of sci-fi and horror and…
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The Wonder: Movie Review
Review by Jill Sioson The Wonder: A Slice of 2022 in 1862 2022 | Directed by Sebastián Lelio Feature Film (1hr, 43 min) Anna: “Is [the bird] trapped or is…
