Classifieds
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NEWS FEATURE: What lies beneath
When Di Wilcox works with teenage girls, she asks them to close their eyes and put their hand up if they have ever hated themselves…
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PROFILE: Dale Maccant, sharing tatts tales
Keilor Park writer and publisher Dale Maccanti is out to show there’s more to tatts than just anchors and sleeves. Maccanti can’t recall when he…
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MY SHOUT: We have strange priorities
I tire of our politicians boasting about Melbourne topping global liveability surveys while filling the joint with apartment blocks and freeways. When I lived overseas…
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INTERVIEW: Jana Pittman, straight up
Jana Pittman does everything straight ahead. It was true for her hurdling and running career – she was twice world champion in the 400-metre hurdles…
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NEWS FEATURE: Blue King Brown
The two key players behind urban roots outfit Blue King Brown found their feet on the streets of Byron Bay. “It’s a beautiful place and…
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QUE SERA: What will be with 3D
Being passed bodily among a group of strangers, I’m starting to feel a little self-conscious and quite glad I wore leggings under that skirt. “Do…
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ARTS: Playing up big-time in the ‘burbs
“Desperately seeking six male singers for a Bayswater audition,” says SLAMS Music Theatre Company on a Melbourne website for amateur actors. Audition hopefuls who can…
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NEWS FEATURE: The allure of steampunk
If any ghosts are lurking in the Spotswood Pumping Station, they probably aren’t batting an eyelid as Keira Hudson enters the cavernous space. The fashion…
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PROFILE: Artist John Kelly off to Antarctica
If not for John Kelly’s mother buying a particular brand of milk in 1982, the Sunshine-raised artist probably wouldn’t be making his way to Antarctica…
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MY SHOUT: Treat teachers with respect
The idea of fast-tracking ‘high-achievers’ into the teaching profession to attract a better calibre of teachers has been raised again. Not only has this idea…
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MELBOURNE CUP: Just another day for ‘Patto’
Milestones mean diddly squat to Flemington’s straight- shooting clerk of the course, John ‘Patto’ Patterson. The enduring racetrack figure hardly bats an eye when told…
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MELBOURNE CUP: Another day at the races for ‘Patto’
Milestones mean diddly squat to Flemington’s straight- shooting clerk of the course, John ‘Patto’ Patterson. The enduring racetrack figure hardly bats an eye when told…
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PROFILE: Nicole Trunfio, Australian supermodel
Nicole Trunfio moved to New York at 16 to pursue a modelling career, leaving dirt bikes and small country town living in Merredin, Western Australia.…
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INTERVIEW: Lorraine Elliott, ACMI president
In her very stylish Richmond home, Lorraine Elliott is telling some great stories about some fascinating people. One of them is her first husband, John…
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NEWS SPECIAL: A call to help
Each morning Marshall Tuck wakes early, exercises while listening to a podcast of Australian news, then drives 20 minutes from Duhok to his workplace –…
















