July 2009
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Generational Warefare
I don’t know about all the readers out there but it seems to me that the media over the last five years has jumped on the generation bandwagon with every plight they have. Every time a generation does some thing different they seem to want to fight it out in the media. What do you [...]
Traverse Poetry Workshop
Traverse Poetry is giving young Canberra poets a chance to learn the art of performance poetry from professionals at the free, one-day Works in your face workshop.
Running from 10am – 3pm on Sunday 2 August, the workshop will include the techniques professionals use to wow audiences and win national and international poetry competitions.
The workshop is [...]
Scary parents…
When does a parent cross the line in their child’s life? When does the mother in law just come off as plain delusional? Do they lose their right to venting an opinion? Michael Johnson, a cricketer for the Australian team; has a very public problem with his mother. In a story aired on A Current [...]
Eve’s Harvest
Hi guys,
We’ve changed the name of our fiction anthology, due to a clash with another Australian literary journal. Now it’s Eve’s Harvest, named after who we like to think was the first feminist (she picked that apple, and she picked it good!).
We also have a Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=102552419086
Check it out, become a member, and remember [...]
hottest 100 of all time a “cock forest”
Disappointingly, Triple J’s Hottest 100 of All Time playlist did not contain a single all-girl band or female solo artist, although a handful of bands that made it into the Hottest 100 did have female members. To borrow Lindsay McDougall’s (aka The Doctor) term from the Breakfast Show this morning, it was a “cock forest”. [...]
Last La Petite Mort – The Orgasm Before Edinburgh
After raging seasons at Melbourne Fringe and The Melbourne International Comedy Festival, La Petite Mort – The Orgasm is performing for one night only at Melbourne’s Butterfly Club before she heads over to The Edinburgh Fringe.
Isabel Hertaeg, who has trained in acting, singing, and dance in Australia and Latvia, has gone back to the naughty [...]
Higher education generation
University, it is something we all know about. It is a choice many of us are faced with. With the Bradley Higher Education Review released in December 2008 it looks like some big changes are headed our way. The review covers a diverse range of topics and one of the more notable points is the [...]
He IS dead…
Do YOU care?
This week is another topical issue week where the largest thing in the news is Michael Jackson’s death. Love him or loath him, he is dead and it has had an impact- globally. Which really raises the issue of the death and grief. Our society is not as well adapted as some other [...]
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