A friend recently posted the below video to Facebook because she was completely bemused by the content. I was too. Quite a few commenters had the same reaction — is this a joke? Could it perhaps be some sort of satirical viral marketing? Some sort of social media experiment? A previously unreleased skit from Saturday Night Live? According…
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“Lend a moment to your imagination and cast your mind back to your childhood, but replace your suburban surroundings with the Nepalese countryside. Where planned streets and roads are replaced by scarcely scattered buildings and rolling hills, with opportunities for schooling few and far between. Now that your mind has carried you there in thought,…
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Although I haven’t lived there for over four years now, I do like to think of myself as a Melbourne local. This guide includes some of the places in the CBD and its surrounds that I like to take visiting non-Melbournians; the others have been shown to me by people who have a bigger claim…
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Sydney’s greatest asset has always been its nightlife. Travellers come to gawk at the Opera house, stroll around Darling Harbour and climb the harbour bridge, but the real fun begins when the sun goes down. Even the GFC cannot stand in the way of Sydney-siders having a good time and it’s not unusual to find…
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If Sydney was a woman, she’d be downright dirty, sexy as hell and loved by all who met her. As our biggest and oldest city, Sydney is packed with never-ending excitement that not even a GFC can dampen. Aptly described by lonely planet as an “ambitious marketplace for the soul, where everything goes and usually…
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Melbourne is Australia’s answer to Paris. Actually, it’s our answer to almost everything. More sophisticated than Sydney, slicker than Brisbane and rougher than Perth, Melbourne is what you get when you throw artists, hippies and fat cats all in the one big multicultural bucket. But don’t take my word for it. Pack your most stylish…
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A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Nicole Trilivas’s debut novel Pretty Girls Make Graves. I spoke to Nicole about her candid writing regarding sex, what’s coming next in her writing, and iconic females in literature. The narration and content of the book is very raw and honest, particularly when it comes to sex, and motivations…
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There is so much I want to achieve. It can feel incredibly daunting and overwhelming trying to choose your next move. We really are spoilt for choice. There are so many different career paths I would love to head down, romantic cities across the world I would love to live in. I graduate university at…
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From the 15th of January to the 1st of February I am travelling Europe solo; something that I have never done before. While I was expecting some concern, I never expected the barrage of criticism and advice that I have received over the last few months. I’m not naive enough to think that no woman…
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