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Drag Race Down Under episode 1 elimination] However, in Ru Paul’s exact words, “your message was right on, but your execution was off,” and Zaho was told to lip-sync for her life, ironically, to ‘Tragedy’ by the Bee Gees. The judges, overall, responded positively to Zaho’s message of Indigenous Sovereignty but agreed the look seemed “unfinished” (a little hypocritical considering RuPaul didn’t even bother wearing drag for the judging, but I digress).  Judge, Michelle Visage explained, “when you turned around I saw the fasteners in your hair underneath.” Tragically, af...

It’s a tradition of mine to undertake my own “media watch” experiment following the annual Invasion Day rallies. I ended up being pleasantly surprised. By Celeste Liddle

By Tommy ChristopherDec 19th, 2020, 8:45 am Photo by Thirdman from Pexels Some questions are better left unanswered, but the takeover of Twitter by carp is too confounding to ignore — as evidence by the zillions of carp tweets that have flooded social media over the past 12 hours or so. There is a LOT of chatter on Twitter about carp, much of it now centered on figuring out why everyone is tweeting about carp, which might make you wonder if some coincidental concentration of organic tweets about carp created a trend that propelled a self-sustaining quest to learn why everyone is tweeting a...

Solidarity and asking the right questions     2020 has been an incredibly tough year for many but especially, I’d argue, for those of us living in Melbourne and Victoria. It’s December and the warm weather is rolling in. We’re finally able to enjoy it — going outside to feel the rays on the skin while having a beer feels medicinal after such a year. Yet unfortunately, rather than reminisce on what has passed, what has been achieved and this newfound ‘freedom’, the Australian right wing media is ensuring we are already having to look forward. Just the other day, for example, Sky ...

Higher education should be for everyone     At the beginning of this year, in what was a spur of the moment decision, I applied to undertake a Masters degree. It had been a long time coming. Indeed, when I finished honours in 2002, I had planned to enter the workforce, enjoy not being utterly broke for a bit, then return to uni to begin my PhD. Seven years later, I finally realised that wasn’t going to happen so I enrolled in a graduate diploma to ‘dip my toes’ back in the world of academia with the view of continuing on. Again, that didn’t happen so eight years later, here I am aga...