When I first started interning for John Hunter at Hunter Publishers, he asked if I would like to proofread The Best of the Lifted Brow, a selection of pieces from The Lifted Brow to be published in late 2013. I nodded enthusiastically and said, ‘Yes!!!!!!!!!!’ with exactly that number of exclamation marks. The Lifted Brow…
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The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is under pressure to return a painting claimed to have been looted by the Nazis. Swiss Lawyer Olaf Ossman claims the painting “Head of a Man” is a Van Gogh sold under duress by wealthy Jewish industrialist Richard Semmel in 1933 when he fled the Nazis. Although tests have…
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There are stories we grow up hearing; we can never unknow them. Spread through culture by constant retelling, we engage with fairytales like Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella every day. They inform our conception of reality. Griffith Review’s annual Fiction Edition, Once Upon a Time in Oz, plays tribute to these eternal narratives with…
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In late October, the ACT Legislative Assembly passed a law allowing same-sex couples to get married. The first weddings under the new law are due to take place next Saturday and today, the High Court has heard the Commonwealth’s challenge to the new marriage law. The main question under review is whether or not the…
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The Coalition Government plans to axe a rebate for low-income workers, which is set to affect up to half of all working women and will also hit rural workers. The plan is to scrap a $500 Low-income Super contribution for people earning less than $37,000 a year, as part of the bill to abolish…
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After months of campaigning and debates, Tasmania is set to become the third Australian state to decriminalise abortion. The Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Bill 2013 has passed the Legislative Council, in amended form, after extensive late night debates. The bill passed this afternoon with nine votes in favour and five against. The Reproductive Health…
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Depending on where you look, the average Australian wedding these days is costing between $35,000 and $55,000. Bride To Be, a national bridal magazine, conducts a bi-annual study that they call the ‘Cost of Love.’ This year, the magazine found that the average total spend on a wedding is a record $54,294. This comes as…
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On Sunday, the Abbott government released the terms of reference for a major review of the childcare system. This has been a long time in the making, and will include reviews of childcare and early childhood learning, as well as long day care, parents who hire nannies, mobile care and outside-school-hours care. The Productivity Commission…
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A couple of days ago, the National Gallery of Victoria announced next year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces Exhibition – “Italian Masterpieces from Spain’s Royal Court, Museo del Prado”. Excuse me while I struggle to contain my excitement. The Museo del Prado boasts a large collection of Italian paintings originating largely from the royal collection (as the name…
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A Melbourne GP who believes that women who have abortions deserve to die has been under investigation after he supposedly revealed on Facebook that he broke Victoria’s abortion laws, by not referring patients seeking abortions to the appropriate services and even actively attempting to talk women out of getting terminations. Daniel Mathews, a lecturer from…
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As of December 12 this year, 12,600 domestic and international Qantas flight attendants will be expected to don a new uniform. However, despite being endorsed by Miranda Kerr, the uniform has received a host of criticism and rejection from Qantas staff. Kerr may have fulfilled her modeling duties, looking prim and polished as she modeled…
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First, she was Rhonda Epinstall alongside Toni Colette in the hilarious and iconic Muriel’s Wedding. Then she was the strong, passionate Brenda Chenowith in the brilliant HBO series Six Feet Under. Most recently, she’s been Christine Assange in Underground: The Julian Assange Story aired on Australian commercial television late last year; as well as Duclie…
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Sitting in the train from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport to the city, crossing an old industrial bridge and looking through the triangular holes of the construction, I get the first glimpse of Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House. Not wanting to look like a typical tourist I try not to look too impressed,…
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Ellipsis is a photography exhibition by four talented Canberra-based emerging artists exploring narrative and truth. Natalie Azzopardi, Holly Granville-Edge, Katherine Griffiths and Amy McGregor share a common urge to explore the limitations and opportunities of the value of truth in photography. ‘Drawing inspiration from what is not written, but remains suggestive, Ellipsis features incomplete, cinematic,…
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