Category: Culture

• Anzac Day: honouring the past, examining the present, and building the future

  

  On the 108th anniversary of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landing on the beaches of Gallipoli, OTR journalist Robert Hicks investigates Anzac Day’s cultural, historical, and political significance.

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  April 25, 2023

  Community, Culture, Global Politics, History, Long Reads

  ANZAC, ANZAC Day, Australia, Australian history, Culture, dawn service, gallipoli, History, politicas, Politics, politixs, Rememberance, RSL, tradition

• Trailblazing Adelaide soccer star to share inspirational story at 2022 Feast Festival

  

  Adelaide’s Feast Festival will host openly gay top-flight soccer player Josh Cavallo at ‘Elite Journeys in Sport’ – a panel event discussing the intersection of sporting and LGBTQIA+ communities.

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  November 11, 2022

  Culture, South Australia, Sport

  Adelaide, adelaide united, amy pawlowski, Community, Culture, elite journeys in sport, feast festival, Festivals, Inclusivity in Sport, jo hill, josh cavallo, LGBTQIA+, norwood football club, Pride, pride round, rainbow, South Australia, Sport, stella lesic

• Carrie, Tracy, Leigh and what’s next for our TV screens

  

  Three prominent news anchors have resigned from their roles on Australian television this year. What might their departures mean for the industry’s diversity?

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  November 7, 2022

  Analysis, Culture

  7.30, A Current Affair, ABC, age bias, Australian news media, australian stories, carrie bickmore, cultural bias, cultural diversity, fran kelly, Gender Bias, ita buttrose, Journalism, leigh sales, media diversity australia, Network 10, newsroom diversity, Nine Network, patricia karvelas, representation, simone amelia jordan, television news, The Project, tony armstrong, tracy grimshaw, workplace diversity

• 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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  July 18, 2022

  Arts, Culture, Entertainment

  acting, Adiescar Chase, Arts, composer, Heartstopper, LGBTQIA+, LGBTQIA+ representation, Music, Netflix, performance, queer, soundtrack

• 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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  July 11, 2022

  Culture, Opinion

  30-year reunion, 7Plus, Baz Luhrmann, Dance, democracy, Julian Assange, Protest, strictly ballroom

• 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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  July 5, 2022

  Culture, History, Long Reads

  ABC 90, ABC Adelaide, Arts, Australian Media, Collinswood, Community, Culture, History, Journalism, Long Reads, News, Radio, South Australia, TV