From Jennifer Peedom's visually breathtaking ode to mountains to the Deliverance down under that is Damien Power's Killing Ground, Guardian Australia's film critic, Luke Buckmaster, surveys the 10 best Australian movies of 2017 – and five of them are from first-time feature filmmakers. There's a splashy doco about the late artist Brett Whiteley, an unexpectedly touching look at David Stratton's life, twisted turns from Stephen Curry and Emma Booth as suburban sickos in the thrilling and chilling Hounds of Love – and, of course, the true story of a Lion who roared. In our third and final podcast on the royal commission into child sexual abuse, David Marr and Melissa Davey take a look at where to from here, now that the commissioners have sat for the last time. The story includes powerful testimony from John Hennessey, a man who suffered in a Christian Brothers school, about the long-term impact of abuse, as well as the view of Francis Sullivan, the chief executive of the Catholic church's Truth, Justice and Healing Council. In a plastic tub at the bottom of a drawer in her father's wardrobe wasn't exactly where Gemma Carey wanted to leave her mother's ashes to rest, but at least it seemed tangible. A year after her mother's death from aggressive breast cancer, Carey set her free in the ocean – an experience that felt both deeply right and deeply wrong. "Selfishly I regretted what we'd just done. I wanted to run back into the ocean and find all those pieces of white bone. Scoop up the pieces in my hands and take them safely back home so I could still have my mother."What's he done now?
What's he done now? Donald Trump is crowing on Twitter in a series of long-winded tweets about his tax cuts bill – but he's angry not everyone is on board with the plan, which Democrats say will benefit the rich and penalise the poor. "The Tax Cuts are so large and so meaningful, and yet the Fake News is working overtime to follow the lead of their friends, the defeated Dems, and only demean. This is truly a case where the results will speak for themselves, starting very soon. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!" Media roundup The Age splashes with an exclusive this morning, revealing home affairs minister Peter Dutton has flagged a boost for Australia'a spy agencies. Although terrorism would remain a top priority, more focus would be paid to espionage and domestic cyber security, which had been "well and truly underdone" said Dutton, in the age of al-Qaida and Islamic State. A South Australian scientist says dung beetles are burying cow pats faster than bush flies can lay their eggs in them, leading to a noticeable drop in the number of flies this summer, the Adelaide Advertiser reports. "The biological control of summer-breeding flies has been an outstanding success," former CSIRO scientist Dr Bernard Doube said. "You couldn't have had the kind of alfresco dining we have in Rundle St and Hindley St 50 years ago. In the wake of the furore over the "ugly" new Apple building in Melbourne, the ABC takes a look back on some famous Melbourne buildings originally dismissed as ugly and modern, including Federation Square, Flinders St Station and the Regent Theatre. Coming up The family of Justine Damond are to make a public statement in Sydney following recent criticism by a US prosecutor of police investigating the fatal shooting of the Australian woman by a police officer in Minneapolis in July. The long-range weather forecast for the Sydney-Hobart yacht race will be released by the Bureau of Meteorology at 10am. Support the Guardian It might take a minute to catch up on the news, but good journalism takes time and money. If you already support Guardian Australia, your generosity is invaluable. If not, and you value what we do, please become a Supporter today. Thanks. | 
Posts
Donald Trump says America 'is not going to be taken advantage of any longer' as he threatens to withhold aid over the UN Jerusalem vote. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters 
No comments:
Post a Comment