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Carla Deale
Apr 25, 20201 min read
“I have no time for this”: Betts on racial ridicule
Adelaide have blown the whistle on a vile comment made towards the Indigenous star
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Carla Deale
Apr 25, 20202 min read
Joy Hester is "The Woman in Black"
In 1947, Joy Hester, a prominent 27-year-old Australian artist at the time, was told she had three months to live.
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Carla Deale
Apr 25, 20201 min read
An Eye for an Eye: On Home Soil
Carla Deale spoke to members of Melbourne’s Hong Kong community who are doing all they can to help their loved ones back home.
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Carla Deale
Apr 25, 20202 min read
“Bill Henson”: a review of the controversial
Bill Henson’s Untitled (2001/02), as part of a series of works also left nameless, is adolescence on the cusp of adulthood.
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Carla Deale
Apr 25, 20203 min read
‘Joker’: Joaquin Pheonix’s cackling antihero is mired in controversy
Todd Phillips’s dark origin tale depicts a struggling Joker’s deeply troubling descent into madness – and certainly, nobody is laughing
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Carla Deale
Apr 25, 20204 min read
I Still Don't Know Why I Ran with The Bulls
There is nothing noble, nor brave, about running with the bulls.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20203 min read
The Conversation’s Anthea Batsakis
Anthea Batsakis, The Conversation’s deputy editor of politics and society, speaks to Carla Deale.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20206 min read
The Microcosm of Abu Ghraib
On the mediatisation of warfare, viral content culture and the Abu Ghraib scandal
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20205 min read
The Cochlear Implant and its Cultural Impact
An analysis of the longstanding debate between the Deaf and hearing communities.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20206 min read
Digital Citizenship, “Shitposting” and the Memeification of Tragedy
A look to viral Internet content and the Christchurch mosque attack.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20205 min read
When your illness isn’t “official”
Having a chronic illness is difficult enough. But what happens when your ailment isn’t even recognised? Carla Deale reports.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20206 min read
Sugar babies: “like having a girlfriend for a night”
Australian uni students are turning to “sugaring” as another way to make money. But is it all glitz and glamour? Carla Deale reports.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20203 min read
Transgender men “invisible”
Melbourne transgender men are calling out for more media representation. Carla Deale reports.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20205 min read
Muscle dysmorphia: the conversation we’re not having
Melbourne’s most elite gyms are where you’ll find them.
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20202 min read
Reconciliation, reform and reshaping history
Indigenous advocates call for constitutional change following Uluru convention
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Carla Deale
Apr 24, 20202 min read
A lifelong struggle: "I'd probably be selling drugs without the dole"
John McLeish, 24, is “absolutely grateful for the dole”.
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Carla Deale
Apr 23, 20203 min read
Australian adult entertainers and students fight back against sex-work stigma
Adult entertainers and sex workers do it for the money, some to get through uni, not for drugs and certainly not as ‘objects’.
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