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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleUnicorns, 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...
View ArticleThe (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...
View ArticleBlackbird’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,...
View ArticleFoxfire 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...
View ArticleBehind 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...
View ArticleBotanica’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...
View ArticleElection 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”....
View ArticleMike 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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