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The exploited workers of Thailand’s tourism industry
Originally published through Global Hobo.
Adelong hens save the Men’s Shed
At the Men’s Shed building on Lockhart Street, Adelong, change is in the air. Instead of the usual bunch of…
Updated wild dog strategy released
A NEW five-year NSW Wild Dog Management Strategy that identifies specific actions to minimise wild dog impacts in the state…
Union: NPWS budget cuts affecting wild dogs
The National Parks and Wildlife Service has been under a storm of criticism from local farmers for not funding a…
Domestic violence rates remain high
Tumut has the twelfth highest rate of domestic violence related assaults per head of population in NSW, the latest statistics…
“Wom’s” 100th birthday celebration
Longtime Tumut resident Harold ‘Wom’ Oddy has, as of Saturday, lived 100 years on this Earth. For much of that…
Results are in for wild dog collar project
Local landholders and agency representatives filled the Golf Club on Wednesday night to hear from Dr Guy Ballard, DPI wild…
Councillors confirmed
The votes have been finalised and the preferences allocated, and you officially have your first ever Snowy Valleys Council: Bruce…
Thefts from vehicles skyrocket
It won’t come as a surprise to regular readers of Page 2 in this paper that the offence of ‘steal…
Compassionate journalism and Kosciuszko the life for Frances
This interview was done as part of a series on Monash alumni, published through the School of Media, Film, and…
Recycling industry’s view on Four Corners
This week’s episode of investigate ABC program ‘Four Corners’ focused on dodgy practices in the waste and recycling industry. The…
“This is what’s going on with the elderly in this country”
Twelve months ago, Leonie Denhert had her hands full running her successful contract cleaning business. She lived in her own…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: Audrey McKenzie
Audrey McKenzie has served on local government in Tumut for 24 years. She said the stakes have never been higher…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: John Larter
John Larter’s primary occupation as Tumut’s leading paramedic comes through in his priorities for the new Snowy Valleys Council. The…
Tumut’s health crisis
Tumut is in the midst of a health crisis. There is no issue with the health professionals that currently work…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: Andrianna Benjamin
Andrianna Benjamin started her first business when she was 13. Owning and running her own shoe store, while completing her…
Mohawk Man brings smiles
Robert and Shirley Giddings have brought a bit of cheer in this gloomy winter to Broughton Street, and all it…
Health frustrations aired to Opposition Health Minister
It was packed house at Club Tumut on Monday afternoon as local residents seized the opportunity to air their complaints…
Tumbarumba ‘Meet the Candidates’ meeting
Rail trails and fees debated at Tumbarumba meeting Residents also wanted to know where the candidates stood on the…
Anaesthetist for booked cases
Tumut Family Medical Centre Practice Manager Janette Wilson said she hopes the recent focus on health has helped the community…
Community reacts to health meeting
Those who attended the public meeting with Federal Shadow Health Minister Catherine King on Monday have mixed feelings about how…
Cabramurra school will stay open
Cabramurra Public School will not close even though plans to remove the town’s permanent workforce remain in place, the NSW…
Council to save Khancoban General Store
For over a year now, Khancoban has been without a General Store. It closed its doors in February 2016, and…
Snowy Valleys Council Election Results
Top two take clear lead Saturday was a historic day in Tumut, Tumbarumba and surrounds. It was the first time…
Tournament of Minds State Champions
Tumut Public School Tournament of Minds Coach Roslyn Castle said there were “a few tears” last weekend, after the girls…
Industry’s role in health services
Local health services have been pursuing government avenues to get a full-time anaesthetist in Tumut for months now, and so…
Thefts from vehicles skyrocket
It won’t come as a surprise to regular readers of Page 2 in this paper that the offence of…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: Julia Ham
Julia Ham is a suitable candidate for the Snowy Valleys based on location alone: she lives smack-bang in the middle,…
Snowy Valleys Council Candidate: Bruce Wright
Bruce Wright is a familiar face for just about everybody in Tumbarumba. He’s been a member of the Rotary Club…
Candlelight march in Tumbarumba
An anti-merger protest in Tumbarumba on Thursday saw hundreds of people gather in the Memorial Hall for a public meeting,…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: Cate Cross
Cate Cross’s working and community history reads like an ‘100 ways to care for others’ guide. Before moving to Tumut…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: Margaret Isselmann
Former Tumut Shire Councillor Margaret Isselmann has decided her work on council isn’t quite done yet – she’s nominated again…
Michael’s hopeful search for great-grandfather
No one knows the importance of a good family – or the corrosive effect of the lack of one –…
Premier agrees to meet Save Our Shire
Tumbarumba’s Save Our Shire group will speak in person with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian today (Tuesday), in a meeting secured…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: Cor Smit
For Batlow resident and businessman Cor Smit, the Tumut-Tumbarumba council merger is an opportunity. He believes this whole region has…
Snowy Valleys Council candidate: Geoff Pritchard
You can never have too much of a good thing. Just ask Geoff Pritchard: after 17 years total on the…
The Snowy Valleys has a big heart
Notably more people participate in voluntary work in the Snowy Valleys than the NSW and Australian averages, data from the…
Timber town
Half of all workers reliant on forest industry A new, in-depth study of the region’s forest industry has concluded…
Church releases review
The independent review into the decision to place former Tumut parish priest Father Brian Hassett next to a Canberra primary…
Help save the Adelong Men’s Shed
The Adelong Men’s Shed is in crisis, according to the man synonymous with its name, Ian Elliott. He started the…
Local legends on Facebook
A post in the Facebook group ‘Tumutians’ asking for local legends has drawn over 100 comments, as current and former…
NPWS responds to wild dog concerns
The National Parks and Wildlife Service arranged for a trapper to work at Beryl Ryan’s Talbingo property last weekend and…
Shadow Attorney-General stands up for Tumut court services
NSW Shadow Attorney-General Paul Lynch has taken up the issue of steadily eroding court services in the Tumut area with…
‘We’re being driven off our farms’
Another Tumut-area farmer has spoken up against the inaction of authorities to do something about the wild dogs wreaking havoc…
Break and enters up 200 per cent
Break and enter dwellings are up 200 per cent in Tumut, according to the latest statistics from the NSW Bureau…
Tumut Takes 2 raises $87K
The Tumut Takes 2 performers have pulled off a phenomenal feat. Months of rehearsing and a packed calendar of fundraising…
Hospital planning tick
The planning stages for a new Tumut Hospital will begin this year, with the NSW government responding to decades of…
A Journey Through Islamic China
Originally published through Global Hobo. I’ve been on this train for 28 hours and have spent countless more jolting across…
Wild dog spree at Talbingo
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE IN THIS STORY Beryl Ryan of Boraig Station, Talbingo, has lost all of the lambs she had…
Life in a Burmese welfare village
Originally published through Global Hobo.
Paul Broad: Funding drama a “storm in a teacup”
The Snowy Hydro team has been left a little bewildered by the media attention surrounding a senate estimates session last…
Opinion: Apples in a globalised world
There was cause for celebration in Batlow last week: the growers that make up the Batlow Fruit Cooperative unanimously voted…
Opinion: Visy invests in automation
Visy’s automation department is capable of producing and selling an impressive array of machines. Their robots can package goods; form,…
Visy awaits approval for increase in production
The $50 million expansion of Tumut’s Visy Pulp and Paper Mill has been completed, and all they are waiting for…
War on Waste a battle for Batlow growers
Batlow apple grower Greg Mouat said he was as shocked as the rest of the country to see the wastage…
Snowy study in full swing
Excavation works are due to begin near Tantangara Dam in “four to five weeks,” Snowy Hydro CEO Paul Broad told…
Unanimous ‘yes’ to Batlow buy-out
One hundred per cent of the growers that make up the Batlow Fruit Cooperative, known as Batlow Apples, have voted…
The Mongolian Wolf Hunt
We were staying in a nomad camp in the middle of the steppe. There were about 10 bottles of vodka…
Gift from a benevolent stranger
A Canberra woman, at the end of her life and suffering from dementia, has donated her overlocker sewing machine to…
Dogs running wild
Goobarragandra farmer Lindsay Buckley has lost 12 sheep in two weeks to wild dogs. His is one of the worst-hit…
Growers grapple with changing apple industry
Batlow Apples has been a cooperative for 96 years, remaining grower owned and operated in all that time. However, the…
Core change flagged for co-op: Batlow Apples considers selling controlling stake
The board of the Batlow Fruit Cooperative – known as Batlow Apples – is recommending to its members that the…
PM announces $2bn expansion of iconic scheme
Five hundred jobs are expected to come to the region starting from next year, with the construction of an expansion…
Snowy Hydro 2.0
Turnbull drops in to Talbingo Residents of Talbingo were surprised with an uncommon site up in the mountains on Thursday:…
Community confronts church leaders
Fractured parish critical of church process: Archbishop here for meeting to discuss Father Brian Hassett About 100 members of the Tumut…
The investigation into Father Brian Hasset
Father Brian Hassett (right), former Tumut parish priest, pictured here with former Tumut mayor John Larter. TIMELINE OF EVENTS 1990…
Fond memories of Tumut
The autumn leaves are starting to turn in Canberra, and for Secretary of the Department of Education and Training, Dr…
Celebrating another successful show
Over 1000 people came through the gates for the Tumut Show on Saturday, with 682 adults, 202 pensioners, 110 children…
OPINION: Tumut doctors should prescribe RU486
If a Tumut woman falls pregnant and doesn’t want to keep the child, she has two options. One, travel to…
Stabbing in Quandong Ave
Donna Paton and Gary Pani were in their home on Quandong Avenue in the early hours of Saturday morning, when…
Tragic loss of a promising young woman
Staff at Reconnect are reeling after the tragic loss of manager Angela McDuff, who was the victim of a fatal…
Australia Day
Batlow Honours for community-minded duo Ray Billings has been awarded Batlow’s Citizen of the Year this Australia Day, while Helmut…
Adelong skate day
Kids of all ages turned out at the Adelong Skate Park on Sunday afternoon, to have some fun and learn…
Families’ dismay at aged care staffing
Major under-staffing issues at the Bupa Aged Care Facility in Tumut are seriously impacting both residents and staff, community members…
Trapped in a blackspot
Goobarragandra resident John McNeill was trapped in his overturned vehicle for more than an hour last week, after he was…
Huge win for THS at F1 championships
Tumut High School students have taken out first, second, and third place at the F1 for Schools state competition at…
Shock resignation: General Manager departs
Snowy Valleys Interim General Manager Bob Stewart has resigned, in a surprising move that will leave a vital position unfilled…
Tumut gives a Gonski
Tumut public schools are set to receive a significant injection in funding next year, as part of the highly publicised…
The fight to save region’s animals from extinction
A World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report has shown that 58 per cent of animals worldwide have gone extinct since 1970.…
Council hands out $1.4 million
Fifty-nine community groups in the Snowy Valleys Council region will receive a combined $1.4 million in grants over the next…
An open letter to Tumut High’s female graduates
The Tumut High formal graduation dinner took place yesterday, and I’m reflecting on what I wish I could tell myself…
A Chat With Lushsux, That RIP Taylor Swift Artist
It’s been a big week for graffiti artist Lushsux.
I Was Stalked At A Monastery
Originally published through Thought Catalog
Hijacked writer profile: Frances Vinall
Hijacked (now Uni Junkee) wrote the following profile of me after I wrote one of their five most viewed stories of…
Why are women uploading selfies with Photoshopped male nipples?
Originally published through Hijacked
The bluffer’s guide to sounding like a wine connoisseur
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What We Learnt In Discussion With Pitchfork Editor Jessica Hopper
Originally published through Tone Deaf.
Video: Is there a human right to vote?
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Video: Do corporations have human rights responsibilities?
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Video: Is detention of asylum seekers a breach of human rights?
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Video: Is there a human right to legal aid?
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Video: Is government surveillance a breach of human rights?
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Video: Is there a human right to voluntary euthanasia?
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Video: Is there a human right to a healthy environment?
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Video: Is there a human right to asylum?
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Video: Is there a human right to gay marriage?
I developed the idea and wrote the script for this video, as part of the ‘Have You Got That Right?’…
Megan Gale heads Melbourne casting call for David Jones Autumn/Winter 2015 fashion launch
Originally published through the Age
Former Neighbours actress Caitlin Stasey launches feminist website Herself.com
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Travelling con men dupe Victorians out of $300, 000 – don’t be afraid to say ‘no’
Originally published through the Age
Cirque du Soleil’s Totem has roller-skating couple in a spin
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Esperanto Magazine: the Melbourne Edition
Originally published through Esperanto Magazine I was the editor of Esperanto Magazine for the Exploration Edition, which involved commissioning and…
Esperanto Magazine: the Creatives Edition
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Esperanto Magazine: the Exploration Edition
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Esperanto Magazine: the Sex Edition
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An Oral History of the Astor Theatre
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Melbourne protestors shut down seminar by pick-up artist Julien Blanc
Originally published through Hijacked
Brunetti cafe in Lygon Street is still without toilets two years on
Two years after it moved into grandiose premises in Lygon Street, Brunetti’s has still not installed toilets for customers –…
Inflatable luminarium kicks off Melbourne’s inaugural SummerSalt festival
Originally published through the Age
‘Flasher’ sexually assaulted woman in Sandringham
Originally published through the Age
Interview with a Stranger: Virginia Sanchez
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Interview: Kate Miller-Heidke
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Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
This 24-year-old adventurer climbed 28 mountains in three months – on a whim Originally published through Esperanto Magazine
Shades of Grey
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A Guide To Drinking In Melbourne
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4 Modern Necessities That Wouldn’t Exist Without LSD
Originally published through Hijacked
Inside the Miss Gay and Miss Transsexual Australia Pageant
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Interview: David Lovering of the Pixies
Originally published through Music Feeds
Interview: Janelle Monae
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Album Review: Against Me!’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues
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Album Review: Sky Ferreira’s Night Time, My Time
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Inside Melbourne Art Fair
I have never discussed the nature of the human soul with a complete stranger – much less in under three…
Album Review: Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
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Gig Review: The Smith Street Band, The Menzingers, Grim Fandango – Melbourne, Corner Hotel 16/03/14
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The Cost of Childcare in Australia
The Coalition has proposed a new paid parental leave scheme, but will that really address the problem of balancing work…
Live Review: Violent Soho
Originally published through Tone Deaf.
Solitude Is Bliss
Originally published in Esperanto Magazine Human beings are social creatures. It is an irrefutable fact of our natures. Except for…
Rudd’s Promise Brings Marriage Equality One Step Closer
This couple have already planned their wedding; when will Australia allow it to happen?
Interview: Harry Angus of the Cat Empire
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Live Review: Emma Louise
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Live Review: Communion Melbourne
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Live Review: Azealia Banks
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Why Tyler, the Creator’s Lyrics Matter: A Female Hip-Hop Fan’s Perspective
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Album Review: Kanye West, Yeezus
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Glen Eira residents light years ahead on energy efficiency
June seminar to target 22.5% of locals not using energy efficient light bulbs
Interview: James Williamson of Iggy and the Stooges
Originally published through Tone Deaf
“We’re The Cat, They’re The Mouse”: The Life of a Private Investigator
Glenn Starleton talks the early mornings and long days that make up his out-of-the-box career.
Live Review: Blink 182
Originally published through Tone Deaf.
From Underground To No.1: The Rise Of Aussie Hip Hop (2012)
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Interview: Ball Park Music
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Live Review: Hot Snakes
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Live Review: Dallas Frasca
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Live Review: The Key Of Sea
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Interview: Justin Sane of Anti-Flag
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Live Review: Big Day Out
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Live Review: Melbourne Ska Orchestra at Melbourne Zoo
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Interview: Dimitri Coates of OFF!
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Live Review: OFF!
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Interview: Tim Finn
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