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After a year of postponements, Chopper's tour of Aotearoa is finally coming over the ditch.

Advertisement Around Christmas of 2019 the veteran Australian filmmaker Nadia Tass was on holiday in New York, catching up with old friends. One day she visited the home of actors Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, where she was surprised to find Jackman and some of his brothers were watching one of their favourite Australian films: Tass’ delightful 1990 teen comedy The Big Steal, starring a young Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan. “They were saying that they loved it,” Tass recalls, “But at the time could they find it on any of the streaming services here? Absolutely ...

Advertisement Around Christmas of 2019 the veteran Australian filmmaker Nadia Tass was on holiday in New York, catching up with old friends. One day she visited the home of actors Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, where she was surprised to find Jackman and some of his brothers were watching one of their favourite Australian films: Tass’ delightful 1990 teen comedy The Big Steal, starring a young Ben Mendelsohn and Claudia Karvan. “They were saying that they loved it,” Tass recalls, “But at the time could they find it on any of the streaming services here? Absolutely ...

Mark ‘Chopper’ Read was no underworld mastermind, but he was a master storyteller and in this episode there is never-before-heard audio of the ultimate showman from 1999.

But, in truth, the first iceberg you see is likely to be small. Most icebergs that make it far enough north from Antarctica to where they are danger to shipping are sometimes many years old and at the end of their lives. They are small fragments of what once left the continent. Once in a while, however, a monster breaks free from the edge of Antarctica and drifts away. Tens of kilometres long these bergs can tower perhaps 100 meters above the sea and reach several hundred more below the surface. These are called tabular icebergs – and while it is rare for humans to see something on such a ...