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With loneliness on the rise, people are paying strangers to cuddle them. But is it therapy, companionship, or something else entirely? When a young man arrived for a cuddle session with Jerika, he could barely make eye contact. Fresh out of university, …

The Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) hosted a special screening of “Limbo: The Forgotten Promise” at NSW Parliament House on 17 September 2025. Hosted by the Hon Janelle Anne Saffin MP and Ms Kobi Lee Shetty MP, the screening focused on Western …

Hi I’m Macca and I’m an alpaca. I live on a farm with lots of other animals, but my best friend in the whole world is Maggie. Maggie is also an alpaca, but she’s a bit braver than me. She once ate …

It is always a challenge to say something new about our favourite piano classics. No matter how brilliant they may be, musicians who choose to perform pieces from this repertoire run the risk of leaving the audience uninspired. But this couldn’t be …

A British film festival wouldn’t be complete without at least one cinematic period drama. Bringing little-known histories to light with visual beauty, attention to detail and exaggerated emotional heart seems to be a common theme among England’s most critically acclaimed films. Think …

“Since when did we start normalising paying ten dollars for a drink?” my friend asks. It’s a breezy Sunday morning, and we’re basking in the sun on the veranda of a brunch café when her question catches me off guard. I look …

Billed as intoxicating blend of spectacle, comedy and cabaret, La Ronde does not disappoint. The performers – who include acrobats, trapeze artistes and aerialists – hail from Australia and overseas, and do things with their bodies which cause us mere mortals wonder …

  Deborah Lawrie was Australia’s first female commercial airline pilot – and what a fight it was for her to overcome the aviation world’s chauvinistic male attitudes to women being anything other than hostesses back in the even more patriarchal 1970s. Writers …

Making its Australian debut at the 2025 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival, Fuori is a poignant portrayal of the power and complexities of female friendship, as well as the experience of surviving in a male-dominated world. Set in Rome during the summer …

For better and for worse, much of our understanding about disabilities have come from cinema. Of course, there are the sensationalised Blockbusters that have probably done more harm than good in defying stereotypes. Think 1970’s smash hits like Rainman or One Flew …