Burning is the slickest film about climate change since An Inconvenient Truth – and that’s its problem

Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia Review: Burning, directed by Eva Orner. The word “crisis” comes from the Greek krinein, which means to decide. You’re stuck in the middle…

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Australian charities are struggling with the loss of fun runs and other ‘fitness philanthropy’ events

Matthew Wade, La Trobe University; Catherine Palmer, University of Tasmania; Kevin Filo, Griffith University, and Nicholas Hookway, University of Tasmania In a typical year there are around 21,000 mass participation…

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At least we’re not being exterminated by alien attack-robots: watching War of the Worlds in a pandemic

Kevin John Brophy, The University of Melbourne Our writers nominate the TV series keeping them entertained during a time of COVID. As a child my reading tastes were precocious but…

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