Opinion
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A coincidence leads to reconnection
Dear editor, Earlier this year my two daughters and granddaughter were visiting the Dandenongs on a nostalgic trip to see where their family lived in…
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Same flaw as Asteroid City
Deadpool and Wolverine Starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman Rated MA15+ 3.5/5 In Deadpool and Wolverine, the mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), aka Deadpool,…
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Olympic Games
Creatures of a day! What is anyone? What is he not? A man is but the dream of a shadow. Yet, when the brightness comes…
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Excellent YA historical fiction
During the Second World War, the U.S. Army took over Arlington Hall, in Virginia, to house its code-breaking effort. The building used to be a…
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Global phenomenon musical SIX is landing in Melbourne
SIX Melbourne’s Comedy theatre Six the Musical, the global phenomenon which has taken the world by storm will open in Melbourne on 2 August. Rehearsals…
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Not About The Spider
Longlegs Starring Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage Rated MA15+ 4.5/5 Longlegs is a supremely suspenseful horror-thriller written and directed by Osgood Perkins (son of Psycho…
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A dark fairytale for teens
A review of Deep is the Fen by Lili Wilkinson Deep is the Fen, by Australian author Lili Wilkinson, shares the same setting as her…
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Photography rules
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph,” Susan Sontag wrote in her 1977 book, On Photography. Now this observation resonates more strongly than ever,…
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The projects and people making a difference
The Boronia Breakfast program has been running since 2021 and has provided countless hot meals to locals who need it most since then. It’s more…
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The basic necessity of food
Food is a basic need essential to our survival and wellbeing and as American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed in 1943 in his pyramid of human…
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The early itinerant communities of the Valley
The building of the Maroondah weir and aqueduct and the Lilydale to Healesville railway in the late 1880s swelled the populations of Healesville, Tarrawarra North,…
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Melbourne Rare Book Week
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Melbourne Rare Book Week, which will start on 18 July and culminate with the Melbourne Rare Book…
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