Thousands of volunteers across the country will receive free kits to clean up their local parks, rivers, beaches and outdoor spaces, thanks to Liquorland’s most successful fundraising initiative for Clean Up Australia held over the weekend. In just three days, Liquorland raised more than $163,000 to support Clean Up Australia in its mission to clean…
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Geena Davis to open Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion Exhibition
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ACMI have announced a pivotal new partnership with two-time Academy Award-winning actor and advocate Geena Davis and the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The iconic actor is set to travel to Melbourne as lead ambassador for the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces blockbuster, Goddess: Power, Glamour, Rebellion. The ACMI-curated exhibition opens at Australia’s national museum…
Developing Australian Communities Calls Out the Government for blindspot on disability sector and Paralympic funding
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A leading Australian disability advocate has called out successive political leaders for their selective blindness when it comes to the disability sector. More than 6,000 people flocked to Brisbane over the weekend for the largest disability and NDIS-related event in the nation’s history and not one of the three levels of government could manage to…
Celebrating Lockdown Legends
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A legend was born during the pandemic when a captioning error in the subtitles for an Australian Capital Territory (ACT) COVID-19 press conference saw a reference to Canberrans misspelt as ‘Ken Behrens’. On the second day of ACT lockdown, the comic relief of Ken Behrens swept across social media. He was embraced by residents of…
UNSW Sydney Alcohol Delivery Survey
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A survey of Australian adults who use popular alcohol delivery sites found one in five utilised a service to continue a home drinking session Services that deliver alcohol directly to the doorstep in as little as 30 minutes can prolong drinking sessions that would have otherwise ended, according to new research. A team led by…
Holiday Break camps For Regional NSW Kids
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The NSW Office of Sport is offering free Holiday Break camps to kids from regional NSW in the April school holidays. Regional kids aged 12-15 can enjoy a free overnight camp at four sport and recreation centres. Featuring a range of activities, including mountain biking and BMX, stand-up paddleboarding and survival skills, camps include all…
In Pursuit of Honor
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Director Ken Olin Starring Don Johnson, Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar Rated M Score 3.5/6 In 1932, a modernizing U.S. Army orders the Cavalry to destroy its horses but some sympathetic cavalrymen, defying orders, steal the horses in order to save them from destruction, to the dismay of the top Army-brass. The movie is not actually…
SBS and Screen Australia Announce Swift Street
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SBS and Screen Australia have announced the commissioning of a new eight-part Australian drama series Swift Street, in partnership with Fifth Season. Screen Australia’s Head of Content, Grainne Brunsdon said that Swift Street is a fast, funny, and gritty family crime drama, set in bustling inner-city Melbourne, where the rich and poor collide. This high-paced…
Prime Video Announces My Spy Sequel
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Prime Video have recently announced that Anna Faris, Craig Robinson, and Flula Borg have joined the cast of director Pete Segal’s My Spy sequel, My Spy: The Eternal City, with Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Kristen Schaal, and Ken Jeong reprising their roles. The highly anticipated sequel follows Prime Video’s 2020 release of STXfilms’ My Spy,…
‘Shine on You’ brand new EP from Piperlain
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Carrying universal messages, ‘Shine on You’ is the brand new EP from Blue Mountains based Folk/Rock duo Piperlain, featuring the lead single ‘Bloom’. The EP focus track is the uplifting and beautifully textured ‘ I Feel The Sun’. Recorded at MusicPro Farmstay Studios by engineer Paul Iannuzzelli, at a secret studio location near the Warrumbungle…