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Why the National Curriculum is not quite wunderbar

This school year, the students of over 6,000 primary schools across Australia will be learning a foreign language.   They will be cutting out and colouring in pre-printed Mother’s Day cards, chorusing...

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The Murray Darling Basin Plan–too little, too late

On March 18, close to 100 children stood on the sand at the mouth of the Murray River and squinted into the midday sun. From the helicopter hovering above them, it could be seen that the line of...

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Unicorns, smurfs and the ’80s—an explosive mix in Windmill Theatre’s School...

On the morning I was due to see School Dance as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, my friend and I were discussing how to best defend ourselves in a zombie apocalypse. Among options...

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The (golden) dawn of fascism in Greece

Crowds march down the streets chanting “Immigrants, your time is up” and “Let’s rid this country of the stench”. Gangs raid hospitals, demanding to see patients’ and doctors’ citizenship papers. The...

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Blackbird’s song a haunting cry in the dark

In the bedroom of a classic suburban home, camouflage-patterned curtains let in slivers of red and blue flashes, lighting up the face of a teenage boy.   He stares at the police cars gathered outside,...

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Foxfire a flame that’s real enough while it’s burning

Maddy (Katie Coseni) is a teenage girl in upstate New York, coming of age in the rock n’ rolling 1950s. Fuelled by a soundtrack of Elvis and Johnny Cash, America’s youth is getting its first taste of...

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Behind the stage door: Spectacular’s rising stars

Down an alleyway in Collingwood, where lamppost stickers scream the names of ultra-post-modern bands and offer a “good time” if you call the number below, there is a door tucked away in the corner of a...

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Botanica’s wondrous bloom

There’s something intimate and slightly magical about turning around in your seat at the opening night of a show to scan the faces illuminated only by the stage’s glow.   At the imposing and regally...

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Election 2013: Soil, winds and solar

As economic spit balls and responses to responses to gaffes obscure the no-man’s-land between the major political parties, this is already being called “the election that forgot the environment”....

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Mike Daisey, modern-day Scheherezade

On any given night in this lunar month you’ll find a crowd of people sitting in Joe’s Pub, New York, listening to monologist, author and actor Mike Daisey tell them a story.   It’ll be a story about...

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