Category: Culture
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Creating Queer happiness through music: meet the genius behind Heartstopper’s soundtrack

The heart flutters, melts, and swoons conveyed through electronic beats and thrums is just one of the reasons Netflix’s Heartstopper is perfectly addictive. Composer Adiescar Chase gives us an insight into her process of creating the heart-stopping soundtrack.
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Strictly Ballroom: 30 years of breaking rules for the better

Baz Luhrmann’s 1992 directorial debut is an Australian classic. Strictly Ballroom holds up not only thanks to its sparkly costumes, but because of an enduring narrative: effecting change.
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ABC 90: the icon’s milestone and its cultural impact on Australians

To celebrate the ABC’s 90th birthday, OTR journalist Viki Ntafillis visited the Collinswood office just outside Adelaide and spoke to some individuals who consider the ABC a cultural institution.
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International Women’s Day 2022: Women are speaking and we need to listen to them

Across the country on March 8, and in the days that preceded and followed, Australians heard countless activists outline their experiences as women in the current climate and the ways our gender ecosystem needs to change.
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No pride in policing: Reckoning with systemic violence beyond Pride

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander campaigns for justice shine the way for decolonising local queer spaces, including addressing the participation of police and correctional officers at Pride.

