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How would you feel if you or a member of your family was involuntarily detained, forced to take medication with long term side effects, exposed to physical danger and given few means of redress, all at the hands of the State? This …

“Think of a guitar string that has been tuned by stretching the string under tension across the guitar. Depending on how the string is plucked and how much tension is in the string, different musical notes will be created by the string.” …

David Stavanger (aka Ghostboy), 2013 winner of the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, is launching his poetry collection,”The Special”, at the Queensland Poetry Festival on Saturday, 30 August. Rosanna Licari catches up with David to talk about the p-word. Q. When did you …

The Composer is Dead is a fabulous murder-mystery story, written and composed as an orchestral presentation by Lemony Snicket and Nathaniel Stookey in 2006. It was principally designed as an entertaining, educational piece for children to learn about the world of traditional …

Bell Shakespeare’s rollicking version of Moliere’s Tartuffe will have you laughing uncomfortably at the easy success of manipulation and deceit. Leon Ford shines as the wily, sanctimonious Tartuffe, the penniless stranger who, in the words of the sharp-tongued maid Dorine (played brilliantly by Kate …

Sweden has a bit of a reputation. Among progressive Australians it and its fellow Nordic nations are lauded for their social services, and that for the cost of a very high tax bill you are rewarded by living in one of the …

“Mister! Mister!” Children run barefoot along the dusty gravel behind my motorcycle, chanting the words like they’re some kind of ritual welcome. I can’t help but smile as I pass by. It always amuses me that gender gets lost in translation. Perhaps if …

Like the prospect of a giant meteor disintegrating Earth, climate change used to be one of those issues too abstract to consider changing your lifestyle for. But the recent media portrayal of extreme weather events has put environmentalism back on the map. …

Last week’s attack on Al Shifa hospital, where nearly 2,000 people are sheltering, demonstrates how civilians have nowhere safe to go and shows the current difficulties of providing emergency aid in Gaza. Gaza/Jerusalem/Paris, 29 July 2014 – The international medical organisation Médecins Sans …

As we climb to the top of the leader board of the fattest nations in the developed world, should we tax junk food or do we need to transform the food philosophies of the populace toward the 21st century foodies? A weekly food …