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Samantha started 2020 working with two friends on a self-devised musical called Girls are Hot, which explored ideas of representation within queer communities.
But when the world went into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the show had to be put on hold.
Stuck indoors in Melbourne, the 25-year-old comedian and writer opened a TikTok account to pass the time.
“I remember watching the first few videos, and I was like ‘this is actually really funny’,” Samantha says.
Australian author Yang Hengjun tells of torture in Chinese prison
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Charismatic, iconic and Instagram-friendly, the weedy seadragon is a favourite with divers and snorkellers. The first genomic study of east coast Australian seadragon populations can now reveal weedies from NSW, Victoria and Tasmania are significantly different.
The study, published in
PLOS ONE, also reveals that Victorian weedy seadragons may form a subspecies which has implications for conservation management. The researchers recommend that, as a precautionary approach, these distinct populations be managed separately by each state.
Lead investigator Dr Selma Klanten, from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Fish Ecology Laboratory, said that despite the public popularity of these fish few scientific studies exist.
23 Dec 2020
Author, blogger, and Chinese-born Australian citizen Yang Hengjun, arrested by China on murky allegations of espionage in January 2019 and held without trial ever since, sent a Christmas message on Tuesday to the family he isn’t allowed to see.
Yang defiantly urged his supporters around the world to fight for “democracy, rule of law, and freedom” and said his Chinese captors have tortured him.
Yang, 55, was arrested at the airport in the Chinese city of Guangzhou when he arrived from New York for a rare visit to China with his wife and child. His arrest was not officially announced until the following August, he was not formally charged with espionage until October 2020, and his trial was delayed for another three months on Wednesday. He has not been allowed to see his family during his long, lawless incarceration by the Chinese regime, and he was not given access to a lawyer until he had already been in jail for 18 months.