Tag: Opinion
Cartoon: Fire danger lifts
The Yarra Ranges Council has been lifted from the fire danger period on 15 April.
Forthcoming MWF highlights
The 2024 Melbourne Writers Festival will take place at venues across Melbourne from 8-12 May.
The event features a diverse range of conversations, talks,...
Character growth in wartime
Civil War
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny
MA15+
4.25/5
The fourth film from writer-director Alex Garland, Civil War is a riveting, superbly-crafted character drama set...
A dark academia fantasy novel
Curious Tides, by French-Canadian author Pascale Lacelle, is a dark academia fantasy novel for fans of magic, mystique and moon-gazing.
Simply put, dark academia...
The 1812 Theatre is set to be a German-speaking town for The Fire Raisers
The 1812 Theatre
The Fire Raisers
This dark comedy is set in a town that is regularly stacked by arsonists.
Disguised as door-to- door salesmen, they...
On using your voice
Last week watching the John Farnham documentary and hearing his career changing song, You are the Voice made me reflect on how infrequently we...
The second primate movie in as many weeks
Monkey Man
Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley and Sikandar Kher
Rated MA15+
4.5/5
The directorial debut of star Dev Patel, Monkey Man is a harrowing, compelling revenge thriller.
Kid...
CARTOON: Resident comes crashing down on council’s service
A Healesville resident is disappointed at the Yarra Ranges Council after he contacted the council's emergency services regaring a fallen branch at his property.
Some fun entertainments
Burrinja Theatre
Umbilical Brothers - The Distraction
Winner Best Comedy at the Adelaide Fringe Festival
Do you love staring at screens? Are you staring at...
Wild dog control
Wild Dogs in the Yarra Ranges are a problem, and they are a problem that is not going away anytime soon.
Many readers will be...
A novel about self-discovery
To describe Emma Ling Sidnam's Backwaters as the journey of a fourth-generation Chinese New Zealander to discover her identity is to underestimate the book's...
Mushroom
Any day now, with warm autumn weather and hopefully some seasonal rains on the way, you may start coming across mushrooms, suddenly appearing unannounced...
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Funding and promises for a CCTV network
More than a decade ago, the first of a network of CCTV cameras were promised to keep the community safe and deter crime in...
