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Whether taken as a good or bad quality, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona is a confounding novel....
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Spoiler alert: this article explains a key plot point, but we don’t give away anything you won’t see in trailers.
At the beginning...
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Keen observers of popular culture will have become aware of the recent inclusion of Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running Up That Hill into...
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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
– Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980)
This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious...
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If you’re feeling the cold this winter, you’re not alone. About a quarter of all Australians have trouble keeping their homes warm enough...
Once the purview of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, facial recognition is now being used to identify consumers in Australian stores.
If you’ve seen the...
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The Liberal-National Coalition government has been defeated, but the legacy of its nine-year onslaught on the ABC remains.
That onslaught consisted of relentless...
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We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of...
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Last winter, thousands of dead and dying frogs were found across Australia. Instead of hunkering...
In the glass
Pale straw with a watery green tinge around the rim.
The quintessential bouquet of a Yarra Valley Chardonnay, wrapped up in
French oak with...