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THE COMMUNITY'S VOICE
December 5, 2020
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Nigella Lawson - 'Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning and beauty ... More than just a mantra, 'cook, eat, repeat' is the story of my life." Plus a recipe. Cooking |
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YEP, there’s a 120 year old in my kitchen that is doing just fine. It has only one moving part, three if you count the wing nut and the bench fastening screw. Nostalgia |
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THERE'S a bit of a kerfuffle in Australia and the UK over the new series of The Crown. This series looks at one of the more delicate times in recent royal history: the relationship between Charles and Diana. Movies |
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ONIONS on top of the sausage, onions underneath the sausage – even no onions – Lions Australia aim is to ensure you receive exactly the sausage sandwich you need. Community News |
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VICTORIAN businesses are optimistic of good news on Victoria’s roadmap to reopening this Sunday. News |
Saving lives
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AFTER almost eight months out of action, aquatic facilities – including indoor and outdoor swimming pools – are back but we’ve seen unprece-dented changes in how prepared the community is to return and time away from the water are all contributing to lower levels of skill and fitness-related preparedness. News
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TO HELP pet owners in bushfire impacted areas learn vital first aid skills for pets, RSPCA Victoria is offering a virtual animal first aid course, Focused First Aid for Pets on Sunday 6 December at 2pm RSPCA
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The latest cohort of Moonee Valley Sustainability Champions has just graduated. Conservation
It's feeling a lot like Christmas
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Family, Love and Pizza LOCKDOWN was hard on Victorian small businesses, but amongst the stories of closure and isolation there are some local tales of triumph and connection. The Nicolosi Pizzeria tells such a story from Hannah Davies. Food & Wine |
Photo: Murat Şahin
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A SEVERE heatwave warning has been issued for large parts of the country over the next few days, contributing to dangerous fire conditions, as climate change continues to drive extreme temperatures. News |
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2020 sucked, however it’s been a year of togetherness and community spirit — though mostly trauma. But as we limp towards 2021, it's time to look back at it all, and laugh. Because at least we all suffered through this year together. Interview with Dominic Knight in Books
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THE death of print? MY five year-old grandson recently unveiled plans for his celebration of his 100th birthday: he will sit in a comfortable chair and read a newspaper! Vincent O'Donnell. Media
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ANIMALS Make Us Human. As bushfires ravaged much of the Australian landscape in early 2020, passionate Australian authors Leah Kaminsky and Meg Keneally wondered what they could do to help. Read about this in Conservation
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Photo: Library of Congress
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NOVEMBER 22 was the 57th anniversary of the death of JFK. I grew up in the era after the assassination, in a period where there was a cry that the killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, did not act alone in carrying out the assassination.
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A LIONS' SHARE. Australia's
favourite Christmas cake is back. Community News |
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LIFESAVING patrol season for 2020-21 has begun at Victorian beaches. Last season volunteer lifesavers and lifeguards in Victoria performed 475 rescues, attended 2339 first aid incidents and helped keep more than an estimated 2.34 million visitors to the State’s beaches safe. News
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SOCIAL MEDIA has a lot to answer for. It has been wonderful at building communities of common interests, providing contact and companionship for many previously isolated by age, infirmity, disability or geography. It has opened up a world of knowledge for those who seek it. But ... Media
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HELPING INSOLVENCY.
Legislation has just been introduced into Parliament overhauling the insolvency framework. The tabled legislation will make is easier for small businesses to restructure or wind up. Small Business. |
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MONASH UNIVERSITY is spear-heading the live music revival in Melbourne, with the blockbuster free Sound Gallery Sessions starring the soulful voice of Sudan's Ajak Kwai (November 18); Archie Roach and Paul Grabovsky; and the Flinders Quartet. Entertainment
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CELEBRATED as one of the world’s most liveable cities, Melbourne is now emerging from the toughest COVID-19 lockdowns to face social, economic and environmental challenges. News
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ONE of the most joyous things in life can also be the most traumatic before and after the event. That event is preparing for, and having, children.
It can be a complicated journey as knowledge mixes with advice from many. This story can help everyone. Community News |
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SURFERS FOR CONSERVATION.The biggest names in Australian surfing have banded together today to defend Australia’s coastline and the surfing lifestyle from the threat of climate change. Conservation
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ACCORDING to The Washington Post of July 13, 2018 ‘It took President Trump 827 days to top 10,000 false and misleading claims, an average of 12 claims a day. But on July 9, 2020, just 440 days later, the president crossed the 20,000 mark — an average of 23 claims a day. Media
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LIVING AT HOME AS YOU GET OLDER. Age may well be just a number, but it will inevitably catch up to us. Physically, and mentally, we just won’t be able to do the things we once could. But with a little bit of help, we could delay the move into the aged care system and be happier and healthier for it.
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BRAMBELPATCH. THE 1960s saw the invasion of the British pop scene and the move away from the American influence of Rock ‘n Roll. Many a young hopeful dreamed of being in a band or performing solo and many bands evolved. One such band contained a Gladstone Park hopeful. COMMUNITY NEWS
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FAKE NEWS isn’t just something US President Donald Trump doesn’t like. In the past five years, fake news has become big business, especially online. MEDIA
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WELL CHARGED. Victoria will soon be home to the biggest battery in Australia - and the largest in the southern hemisphere. NEWS
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AT NEARLY 90, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her ‘room with a view’ of the carpark, she dreams of escape. BOOKS
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THANK YOU
THE Victoria Racing Club will say a very Flemington thank you to frontline workers and local community organisations by gifting them roses from Flemington Racecourse’s world-famous rose bushes following the 2020 Melbourne Cup Carnival. Spring Racing Carnival |
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JAMES RUFFAT, his dog and his guitar will be familiar faces to visitors to Puckle St, Moonee Ponds. This is a story about his music (He's been on Hey, Hey It's Saturday), his life and his guide dogs. MUSIC MAN
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CAN Australia survive without Google and Facebook? In the 1920s, radio stations wanted to play recorded music for free, arguing that airplay drove sheet music and record sales. A century later, Google has come up with the same argument. MEDIA
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PERCEPTIVE, thought-provoking and utterly exquisite, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a powerful lament to our treatment of nature, and an urgent cry for change. It is yet another literary masterpiece from the very talented Richard Flanagan. BOOKS
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GOT SOME PAWSOME STORIES?
Bestselling children’s authors, Sally Rippin and Cameron Macintosh, join RSPCA Victoria to launch Pawsome Stories, a competition for young writers to share stories and essays with animal welfare as the creative focus and inspiration behind their work. RSPCA |
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO REVIEW THIS BOOK?
Di Morrissey has just published her 27th novel, Before the Storm. Di has received acclaim, worldwide, and accumulated many glorious reviews. All from professionals. Would anyone like to put their hand up for an early copy to read and review for us? BOOKS |
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Makybe Diva returns to Flemington
THE Victoria Racing Club (VRC) has announced that Australia’s staying superstar, Makybe Diva, will return to Flemington for this year's Melbourne Cup, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of her unprecedented third victory in the Melbourne Cup. Spring Racing Carnival |
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The Spring Carnival
is nearly here THE Flemington course proper was open earlier this week for all Flemington-based horses contesting feature races. This is just a few of them. Spring Racing Carnival |
CHAMPS SUPPORT LITTLE ATHS
Australia's top athletes including Sally Pearson and World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber have urged kids to dust off their running shoes and get back on the track this summer. COMMUNITY NEWS
Australia's top athletes including Sally Pearson and World Champion Kelsey-Lee Barber have urged kids to dust off their running shoes and get back on the track this summer. COMMUNITY NEWS
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A LETTER FROM A PHYSIO.
I was only 17 years old, sitting in the car heading to the cinemas to watch a movie with my mother and siblings. Just as we left the house, my mother received a phone call. COMMUNITY NEWS |
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ARTISTIC LICENCE. Values shape our lives in many ways. Values shape institution, see how Rio Tinto is being tested, at present, over the Juukan Gorge blasts. But values can also be fluid. As Groucho Marx said: ‘Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them ... well, I have others’. He should have gone into politics. OPINION
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PRESIDENTIAL MEMOIRS. OUT NOW. Overnight the former President got stuck into Donald Trump. In his own words, Barack Obama tells in A Promised Land the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world. This is a summary of Volume One. BOOKS
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100th COX PLATE. Australia Post is celebrating the 100th running of the W.S. Cox Plate with the release of a commemorative stamp featuring the 9ct solid Yellow Gold Plate Trophy. NEWS
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THE BLACK LIST. Be ready for the long haul there are 152 episodes, concluding the seventh season, and an 8th is on its way in November, in the US, at least. MOVIES
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Dessert pizza
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAFE 1770. "IN October 2019, we had finally decided to take the plunge we’d been talking about for so many years. We were going to bring the best of our personalities and our home-style cooking to Airport West. Our family business venture was about to begin." And they were about to be hit with Covid-19! To celebrate a year of fruitful activity there will be $1 pizzas!! Read all about it.
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AN INVINCIBLE
Guaranteed lasting celebrity as a member of Don Bradman's 1948 Invincibles, Sam Loxton was larger-than-life, talented, ubiquitous and caring. SPORT |
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A NEED FOR WATER
“We’ve seen handwashing thrown into the spotlight as one of the key ways to help slow the spread of COVID-19. However, billions of people worldwide can’t do this, as they simply do not have access to soap or water. NEWS |
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A NEVERENDING STORY?
On October 8, a Paris court rejected an appeal by Google against an order to negotiate with French media groups, in a long-running dispute about online news. MEDIA |
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SOS. Of the hundreds of travel agents surveyed, 98% say they have seen their revenue plunge by more than 75% since COVID restrictions were introduced in March. NEWS
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DO YOU HAVE STORIES TO TELL?
We all have stories. Take your memory back a long way or just to last week and have a think about something romantic, funny or fabulous. Who in your family, or among your friends, has done (or is going to do) something extraordinary? Chuck it down on a piece of paper and email it and see what happens. Photo: Thomas Le |
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WHIP-FREE HORSE RACING? A state-wide survey conducted in July-August 2020 shows that seven in ten (69%) Victorians feel that horses should not be hit with a whip in the normal course of a race, illustrating the majority of Victorians do not believe the use of whips in horse racing is necessary or reflective of community sentiment. RSPCA |
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ON FATHERING
A recent review of evidence around the impact of fathers in a child’s life by The Fathering Project has highlighted the vast importance of fathers in children’s lives from toddler to teenager and beyond. OPINION |
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HELP FIND HIS STORY
Kazimierz Karl Leis, known as Karl in Australia, was born in Poland in February, 1905. During WW2 he was in the UK with the Polish Air Force. In 1948 he went with other Polish airmen to Pakistan, to help set up their Air Force. He lived in Essendon. He died aged 101. COMMUNITY NEWS |
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BRIDGE THE GAP
There are more than 330 bridge clubs in Australia with a total of 35,000 members. The local Moonee Valley Bridge Club which shares rooms with the same name bowls club is one of the largest in Victoria with more than 350 members. COMMUNITY NEWS |
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REBUILDING BUSINESSES
This year's Federal Budget hopefully delivers much-needed support for the survival and recovery of Victorian businesses. Several measures are closely aligned with the Victorian Chamber’s advocacy. NEWS |
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN ...
AS corona virus numbers continue to drop and Melburnians prepare for Stage Four lockdown measures to be lifted, motorists are being urged to use extra caution on the State’s roads. NEWS |
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TRUMPED UP
WE were expecting a Twitterstorm from US President Trump over the Australian government’s attempt to get Facebook and Google to pay their way, but it was a submission from the US Trade Representative that hit the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission instead. MEDIA |
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BE PREPARED. Many pet owners would panic if their pet was involved in an accident. However, learning basic first aid skills for pets can mean the difference between life and death.To help pet owners learn vital first aid skills that could save a furry friend’s life in an emergency, RSPCA Victoria is launching its first ever virtual animal first aid course.
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MVCC Elections
Click on your Ward below for information about your candidates. Or click on "MVCC Elections" in the navigation ribbon above
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MOONEE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS
UP until October 24 we will all be voting for councillors (or get fined!) at the forthcoming MVCC elections. We asked two of the candidates if they'd be interested in a Q&A which wasn't all politics, business and education background. Here are a few answers from Independent candidates LUISA MUSCARA (Rose Hill Ward, left) and ROSE ISER (Myrnong Ward, right) and INDEPENDENTS' DAY |
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ASK THEM A QUESTION ONLINE
Kids authors extraordinaire Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton have added 13 new levels to their treehouse and now it’s even more out of this world than before! WHAT'S ON |
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THEY'RE (NEARLY) RACING
AS of today, 94 horses have been declared for 160th running of The Lexus Melbourne Cup. SPORT |
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ON A GREEK ISLAND
QUITE accidentally I touched greatness today.I was reaching for one of John Steinbeck's novels in my bookcase when I saw an old novel I must’ve read ten years ago. BOOKS |
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WHAT TO DO
I’m fortunate in having a garden, in being surrounded by books, and in being a maker of preserves (though not a particularly accomplished one). I appreciate how lucky I am to have these things to engage me and bring pleasure. But what if you don’t have a garden, or an abundance of books? What if making jam isn’t your jam? I have one word - Knitting. CRAFT |
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ON THE ROAD AGAIN
The Victorian caravan and camping industry contributes $2.3 billion to the Victorian economy. Or it used to! NEWS |
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EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE
TWO CHAMPION MATES Champion Hawthorn Half forward Flanker Bob Keddie (4 goals in the last quarter of a Grand Final to win by 12 points) reviews the story of his old mate Peter Crimmins in the new book "Crimmo". SPORT |
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PETER CRIMMINS was always the shortest of his peers, particularly in the sporting arena, yet he never let stature stand in the way of achieving all he set out to accomplish - on and off the field. Crimmins' spirit lives on decades after his passing, which is why Crimmo - a sporting story, a love story and a social history all in one - is such an important tale. Read more about the Peter Crimmins Story here.
The winner of a copy of "Crimmo" (Player #5) was Karen Dalton from Tullamarine |
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5km FRIENDS ZONE
WITH Melbourne residents prevented from going further than 5km from home during lockdown, an interactive map developed by Monash University researchers is making it easier to see a friend outdoors. |
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A WIGGLY STORY
Just a few months ago, Australia nearly lost beloved original Yellow Wiggle Greg Page when he suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in the middle of a bushfire relief concert while on stage with The Wiggles. He talks about it here. You can also win a song about your suburb THIS weekend. HEALTH |
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SBS ON DEMAND
Spiral (French with English subtitles) has it all, as long as you have a strong stomach. Fabulous characters. Seven series and another to come. Definitely for late-night bingers. MOVIES |
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WHILE the focus of the story has been Facebook and Google, the real battle is about the whole ecology of the modern mediasphere. MEDIA
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PAUSING FOR THE PANDEMIC:
A time for reflection and reassessing by Di Morrissey The juggle and struggle of enforced lockdown, working from home, adjusting to life en famille, financial hardship, or, for some, a surprising bonus. |
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THREE time premiership player Barry Davis, the game’s purest champion, led North Melbourne to its first ever premiership in 1975.This biography by Barry’s brother Ken comes 60 years after Davis first walked into Windy Hill – home of the electrifying John Coleman – beginning one of the most illustrious careers of all.
WON WON WON
The first correct winning entry to win a copy of Born to Play was Leanne Boyd from Airport West The answer was Captain Filou |
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PUBS BLEEDING WITH DEBT
“Local pubs are on the debt cliff and will never recover if they cannot re-open soon. We could lose the iconic corner pub because of the debt the Victorian Government restrictions have put on them. NEWS Photo: Tembela Bohle |
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WENDY and husband Anthony opened Biagio's Restaurant in 2008. They now run the 64 seat restaurant and full cocktail bar with their 23 year old twin sons Biagio and Gianni. FOOD & WINE
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AS a musician in the Air Force Band, Leading Aircraftman Callum Moncrieff is used to wearing many hats.
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WHEN more than 90% of wood logged out of Victoria’s Critically Endangered Mountain Ash forests is pulped for paper and cardboard, there’s something wrong. OPINION
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THE Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Kate Carnell, has welcomed the Federal Government’s extension of temporary insolvency and bankruptcy protections, to support struggling small businesses impacted by the COVID crisis. NEWS
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LAST year Phil Kafcaloudes went to a lecture by famed British film producer David Puttnam. He showed us a slide that indicated Apple was the biggest company in the media universe. In contrast, he then showed us how Netflix had overtaken Apple when it came to online streaming. MOVIES
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ON A STREET WHERE WE LIVE
"When I first moved into Gladstone Park, the first person I met was my next door neighbour." NEIGHBOURS |
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A TALE OF COURAGE
"I grew up in a normal Australian family ... at least in the degree that any Australian family can be considered normal." Sam Bloom's amazing journey back from the edge of death and the depths of despair will capture your emotions like few other. BOOKS |
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LOCKDOWN has placed mental pressures on Melburnians like no event since WWII. Media outlets are constantly telling us daily about the doom and gloom: fines; cheats; deaths; the failures of policy; the loneliness; the blame. Journalism academic Phil Kafcaloudes looks at whether it might be better if we just turn off the information barrage. OPINION
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SCHOOL HOLIDAYS ACTIVITY
If you would like to start your kids September school holidays on the music trail then all you need to do is read this story about The Melbourne Performing Arts Academy. |
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DITCH FBT
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell has urged the Federal Government to abolish fringe benefits tax (FBT) for at least two years to provide a much-needed cash flow boost to the economy and support struggling small businesses. NEWS |
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MAKING HIS MARK
I was looking at a fresh face talking to (mainly) kids about painting. But talking to kids about painting like Vincent van Gogh? I thought this isn't going to go well. But local man Mark Rusic presents a charm without that over-done commercial spin. It was presented as natural as you like and I could see why kids, and their parents, would be attracted to him and his art. Iconic Colours |
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FASTA PASTA
Can you imagine starting a new business in the middle of a global pandemic? Many people have done so because of necessity, Marina Totta is doing it because she loves it! |
Stories from previous issues
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TV series review
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Google like crazy.
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A Life On Our Planet
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Fake News?
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The Victoria Cross
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"I love you"
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A THEATRE FOR DREAMERS - Review
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The Party Kit Network
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Be cautious
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Friend in Me
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2 x TV series review
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Atomic Salvation?
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THE COLD WAR COOKBOOK - review
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THE UMBRIAN SUPPER CLUB
Review ...
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Earthworms
Gardening
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BOSCH
TV Review
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GREYHOUND
Film Review
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Maybelle Carter
Entertainment
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BEAAMing
Community News
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Poetry and Motion
Community News
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Kerry Castree.
Health
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Turning periods into pathways. Health
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Hibernation Station
Community News
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The Winds of Change
Media
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Get fit at
The Hiit Factory
Health
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Mobilising a Pantry
Marketplace
