The Vine counts down ways women ruin everything. With bonus puppies!
Peta Credlin has become a lightning-rod for discontent driven by fear
We at No Award are quite intrigued by the fact that, when Julia Gillard was an unpopular prime minister with a tough, unpopular male chief of staff, she was demonised, whereas Tony Abbott is an unpopular prime minister with a tough, unpopular female chief of staff … once again the woman is demonised.
[Disclaimer: If the current Australian government was the subject of a satirical ABC comedy in the style of The Thick of It — and how we wish that were true — Peta Credlin would be Liz’s problematic fave. She’s not quite Malcolm Tucker in a skirt, but only because she’s not famous for creative swearing.]
Skills shortage for Auslan interpreters
Melbourne Nylex clock turns on, makes mysterious return to life
Nylex Clock/Skipping Girl Sign OTP, y/y?
A Meat Processing Professional Reviews Snowpiercer
Paying to Work: The Perth Film Network and The Action Film Plan
The Perth Film Network’s latest venture, called “The Action Film Project,” is what appears to be either a particularly exploitative form of crowd-funding, or an unethical business scheme masquerading as a golden opportunity for aspiring filmmakers.
Satire and Scandal: Revisiting Frontline
Interesting long reads
Cicada: Solving the Web’s Deepest Mystery
Or, an episode of Elementary and an amazing premise for a YA novel in one! Link nicked from Natalie Luhrs of Pretty Terrible, but shared here again because it is AMAZING.
Can the Next Generation of Morticians Breathe Life Into the Death Industry?
Welcome to a Liquid Modern Queensland & Why Tony Fitzgerald’s in Despair
A dense but rewarding discussion of corruption and neo-liberalism in Liz’s home state of Queensland.
And if it’s not region-locked for you, Liz totally recommends Chris Marsters’ The Moonlight State, the 1987 Four Corners expose that helped bring down the Bjelke-Petersen government. It has some gratuitous strip club footage, but is brilliant and valuable nonetheless.
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