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WestConnex mould found in ear

BY WENDY BACON The Fair Work Commission has recommended that the WestConnex M4 East tunnel employ a full-time hygienist to ensure safe work on the remaining sections of the M4 East tunnel construction.

The order was made in late March after a worker was found to have toxic mould growing in his ear, mould of the same type that was found at extremely high levels in the tunnel, The tolled tunnel was originally scheduled to open in late 2018 and then early 2019. It is currently expected to open to traffic in June.

Significant health risk The Fair Work Commissioner Donna McKenna made the order after extremely high levels of toxic mould were measured by an independent testing company in the tunnel.

These levels were up to five times recommended levels and posed a significant health risk to workers.

The mould is due to the damp conditions in the tunnel which, unlike some other tunnels, has not been lined.

Despite the tests, CPB Contractors initially declined to admit there was a risk to health. The company ordered 300 electricians to continue working in the tunnel.

However, medical tests ordered by a doctor for a worker with an ear infection showed that the same mould was actually growing in a worker’s ear.

The condition can cause serious long-term damage to aural health unless treated promptly with antibiotics.

The Commissioner also ordered that the company provide the workers with equipment to properly clean their tools and that the cleaning is done during work hours.

The company that has been responsible for the ongoing occupational health hygiene in the tunnel is Ventia, which is a fully owned subsidiary of CIMIC that also owns the main contractor CPB. The extra hygienists that have now been appointed are from an independent company.

ETU State Secretary Justin Page told 2SER in March that “we’ve repeatedly had safety issues on these jobs, horrific safety, poor planning and evacuations”.

He said that on a major infrastructure of the size of WestConnex, the government should be more involved.

But this is unlikely to happen as the M4 East and the New M5 and their construction have both been sold to private tollway company Transurban.

M4 electricians at a workplace meeting. Photo: Supplied ETU

After this finding, the highly skilled and well-paid electricians, many of whom come from Victoria and Queensland, continued to refuse to work on “health and safety” grounds.

Workers and union officials risk thousands of dollars of fines if they resort to unauthorised strikes, but if there is a serious risk to health, workers can take action.

CIMIC-owned CPB Contractors took the dispute with the NSW Electrical Trades Union (ETU) to the Fair Work Commission.

On March 21, Commissioner

McKenna recommended that CPB employ a hygienist on a full-time basis to inspect work areas, consult with workers about measures that needed to be undertaken for safe work to continue, and monitor work areas on an ongoing basis.

We’ve repeatedly had safety issues on these jobs, horrific safety, poor planning and evacuations

Before going back to work, the hygienist was expected to hold meetings with employees with an official from the union present so that the union could recommend whether to return to work or not.

Workers were to be given detailed instruction on the use of air respirators before working in the tunnel again.

The order was a significant step forward for the union which had been battling to get the company to recognise health and safety concerns which have plagued the job, including earlier gas and sewerage leaks.

Hidden costs of WestConnex The safety concerns about mould add to earlier concerns about the exposure of thousands of workers to asbestos, silica dust and other sources of contamination without proper protection.

Many of these workers have been brought from interstate and overseas and do not have the same union protection as the electricians.

Many of the more severe health impacts, including cancer, only emerge after years, by which time it will be hard for workers, even those with lawyers, to hold contractors accountable.

These illnesses will all be part of the hidden costs of WestConnex.

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BY MIKE HITCH The non-profit organisation for queer migrant women, SheQu, put representation to the forefront after holding a protest screening of “The Revival: Women and the Word” (2016), an award-winning documentary directed by Sekiya Dorsett about a US tour group of black lesbian artists.

Screened for the first time at the Red Rattler Theatre last week, the documentary followed five poets and musicians who shared their stories across the US and Canada on “The Revival Poetry Tour,” a movement to strengthen community connections among queer women of colour.

The documentary also featured interviews from black feminist and queer speakers, including Alexis De Veux and Nikki Finney, who shared insights about the culture of queer women of colour and the importance of reinvigorating a slowly stagnating art scene.

Among fold-out chairs and battered couches, SheQu community members watched as the black female artists battled through sleepless nights, stage fright, family drug abuse and ceaseless racism in the name of strengthening their dispersed queer community.

Founder of SheQu and organiser of the protest-screening Kamalika Dasgupta said that the event was meant to bring queer women of colour to the front of the show, while also disrupting the stereotypes and traditional roles that women of colour have on the big screen.

“We wanted to promote queer women of colour and talent. I haven’t seen a specific space that honours queer women of colour.

Instead of just having the side roles of loud,

“For example, Hollywood took so long to recognise a woman of colour with Halle Berry winning the Best Actress Award, a huge thing, right? But imagine what the conditions are still like for a queer woman of colour.

Turkey baster talent “That’s why we wanted to bring these talents together to share with our community.”

The documentary shows the highs and lows of the journey, from the group’s encounters with a racist cop-calling neighbour to the tedium of grocery shopping on the road – including one scene where Jade Foster, founder of ‘The Revival Poetry Tour,’ picks up a turkey baster as she searches the isles.

We wanted to show women of colour who have talents, especially women of colour from ethnic backgrounds SheQu community members celebrate representation at the Red Rattler Theatre.

Photo: Kamalika Dasgupta

obnoxious people, which you see in a lot of Hollywood movies – we wanted to show unique women of colour.

“We wanted to show women of colour who have talents, especially women of colour from ethnic backgrounds, so we decided to change the status quo and show that representation matters. If you see yourself in a movie or a documentary you can think ‘hey, I relate to that’ or ‘hey, I can do that’.

“If anyone wants a baby – Imma make it happen,” she said grinning to the camera.

Event attendee, Amy Liu described how such scenes were reassuring of her own experiences in life.

“I deal with that sort of hard-racism. I’ve also made a fair few turkey baster jokes in my day.

It’s just so good, so comforting to see your own experiences being lived out by other people.”

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Backlash prompts review of therapies

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Yoga is among the 16 modalities prohibited from private cover. Photo: Pexels

BY ALANA LEVENE The Liberal National Government announced on Sunday it will reconsider a ban on private health cover for more than a dozen natural therapies — less than a week after the ban’s implementation set off an intense backlash.

The Department of Health decided to stop funding private health insurance cover for 16 natural therapies after a 2015 review found “insufficient evidence these therapies were clinically effective,” according to a spokesperson.

The changes came into effect on 1 April.

Health Minister Greg Hunt reversed course over the weekend, promising a $2 million review of natural therapies including naturopathy, Western herbal medicine, kinesiology, and reflexology, among others.

“The Government has listened to the views of the sector that there is additional evidence for certain natural therapies since 2014-15,” said a statement from the Department.

“This updated review will enable formal consideration of this.”

The Commonwealth chief medical officer will lead the review, which could reinstate cover for the 47 per cent of Australians on private health insurance as early as next year.

Defending integrative medicine Kerryn Phelps, Independent MP for the federal seat of Wentworth, was a fierce critic of the ban from its outset.

Her opposition stems from her decades of experience as a general practitioner and public health advocate.

Phelps said the government’s changes run counter to a global movement to integrate complementary therapies into healthcare systems, particularly in preventative healthcare and recovery and rehabilitation.

For example, under the NHS in the United Kingdom, the first line of therapy for lower back pain is yoga and tai chi. Under the government’s new guidelines, both are banned from getting private health cover.

“It’s not OK just to tell somebody to take painkillers or to have a surgical procedure,” Phelps said.

“As you get more experienced as a doctor, you realize that medical training prepares you for treating many patients, but not all.”

Phelps said the new legislation reduces patient choice and could lead people to make improvised and uninformed decisions.

“The problem is that if you remove the modalities like qualified naturopaths, then people just start buying over-the-counter supplements and making it up themselves,” Phelps said. “I believe in guided self-care, and we’re taking away the guides.”

Phelps wrote to Minister Hunt in late March,

asking that yoga, tai chi, Western herbal medicine, pilates, and naturopathy be removed from the list of therapies denied subsidies.

These modalities have a sufficient evidence base, Phelps said, and shouldn’t be grouped with others like aromatherapy, Bowen therapy and iridology.

Phelps said the ban should be reversed while the review is in progress.

Groups including Friends of Science and Medicine (FSM), led by medical professor John Dwyer, have lobbied in favour of the cover ban.

It’s not that FSM doesn’t see the health value in yoga, Dwyer said. They do, but a lot of other things, like going to the gym, are also beneficial.

Since there is no evidence that yoga and tai chi can treat specific diseases, Dwyer said, “precious” healthcare dollars should not be spent subsidizing them.

If I kept going back to my original GP, I’d still be getting nowhere “The bottom line is that the millions of dollars that the government was spending would be much better spent on other things that are likely to benefit patients,” he said.

Dwyer also criticised integrative medicine doctors, who he said “aren’t being rigid about trying to stick to scientific evidence-based care.”

Naturopath two-hour visit Two years ago, Kate McHound was exhausted.

She couldn’t lose weight. She traveled from GP to GP, looking for answers.

Two months ago, a female GP said that her symptoms are “just part of being a woman”.

McHound, who lives in the Blue Mountains, decided to visit a naturopath, who ran full thyroid panels, diagnosed McHound with thyroid disease, and referred her to a new GP, who “actually paid attention” to her symptoms.

“GPs just generally don’t have the time to go through everything and all symptoms in a 15-minute or even 30-minute appointment,” McHound said. “My first naturopath visit was two hours, and we went over everything.”

McHound now works with her naturopath and GP to work out better thyroid medication protocols, nutritional supplements, and supportive herbal medicine.

“If I kept going back to my original GP, I’d still be getting nowhere,” McHound said.

When she found out about the government’s weekend announcement, McHound was doubtful that the ban would be reversed.

Even if it is, she won’t be able to claim rebates from NIB anymore for naturopath visits in the meantime.

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Alexandra Cyclepath Closure

BY ALEC SMART The NSW Government plans to close a popular cycling and walking path alongside the Alexandra Canal on the northern perimeter of Sydney Airport.

The cycleway, between Tempe Basin and Coward Street, Mascot, will be diverted by the Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) through Tempe in an as yet undecided route to make way for the Sydney Gateway, a motorway funnelling traffic from the WestConnex toll road to Sydney Airport. Qantas Drive, which runs parallel to the path, will be widened to make way for the Sydney Gateway.

Insisting it will significantly improve vehicle journey times, the RMS describe the motorway as, “A new alternative route to the domestic and international airport terminals from the Sydney motorway network at St Peters Interchange.

The Alexandra Canal, named after Princess Alexandra who married the British Crown Prince Edward in 1863 (later King Edward VII), is an artificial tidal waterway that filters stormwater into the Cooks River.

Following the course of the historic Shea’s Creek, it is Sydney’s first inbound waterway and one of only two navigable canals constructed in NSW. It flows from Alexandria through the suburbs of St Peters and Mascot, passing Sydney Airport where it meets the Cooks River in Tempe.

The Alexandra Canal Cycleway. Photo: Alec Smart

boating facilities along the Alexandra Canal. The masterplan, released in 2001, proposed cycle paths the entire length of the 4.5 kilometre-long canal, and in 2003 the first, now-threatened cycle path was constructed along part of the eastern bank.

Fiona Campbell, City of Sydney’s manager of cycling strategy, revealed to the Sydney Morning Herald that the Sydney Gateway construction effectively ends the City’s original plans to extend the cycleway further north along the length of the Alexandra Canal though social hubs and alfresco dining areas.

“The Alexandra Canal master plan that the state government did back in

2001 envisaged the canal as a regional recreation attractor, with tables and chairs, and picnic areas and cafes along the canal as well as a path on both sides,” she told the Herald. “That’s now ruled out if part of the canal is severed, and the community can’t have access anymore.”

“The Alexandra Canal cycleway is a calm, safe and protected shared path cycleway that connects Tempe and the southern suburbs to Sydney’s CBD and eastern suburbs,” asserts BIKEast, a community cycling organisation. “It is a much-loved facility, frequently used by many local Sydney Airport staff and commuters to get to work every day, as

It is a much-loved facility, frequently used by many local Sydney Airport staff and commuters An RMS spokesperson told City Hub, “It has always been intended that any cycleway impacted by Sydney Gateway will be replaced. RMS will ensure the continuity of active transport routes throughout the construction of the Sydney Gateway, and are committed to establishing a final new route to connect existing cycle paths towards the city.

“As the project is in early stages we are currently reviewing multiple options for temporary and permanent cycle ways in consultation with local Councils, bike groups, residents and community groups.”

Unsatisfactory levels of planning Yvonne Poon, Secretary and Bayside Coordinator for BIKEast, told City Hub, “Our main ask is that safe provision be provided for people walking and cycling along Alexandra Canal from Tempe Reserve to Coward Street during and after construction.

With construction possibly taking 2-3 years, and with the existing congestion around this area, closing this major commuter cycling facility will only add to the traffic along these corridors.

“We have observed from existing construction projects around Sydney, such as the CBD and South East Light Rail, that there are unsatisfactory levels of planning to provide safe and adequate provision for people walking and cycling during the construction periods.

“This existing Alexandra Canal route is of particular risk. Due to the surrounding infrastructure, there is a lack of safe, alternative routes for people walking and cycling to connect the Sydney Southern Suburbs/Inner West area and the Sydney Eastern Suburbs.

“There are thousands of local workers, including Sydney Airport employees, with limited transport options, that benefit heavily from this active travel corridor.”

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Construction ends extension plans In 1999, the South Sydney Development Corporation announced a $300 million development plan that would feature housing, eateries and

well as recreational users of all ages.”

BIKEast recently launched a petition on Change.org which was backed by a coalition of cyclists and community groups including Bicycle NSW, WalkSydney, Bike Marrickville and numerous stakeholders.

The petition, which has so far attracted over 2500 signatures, seeks three provisions from the RMS, including a cycling and walking route along Alexandra Canal linking Sydney Airport’s Domestic Terminal to Tempe Basin, Sydenham Station, Sydney Park, and Bayside Council’s proposed Eastern Cycling Network.

The RMS counters that the Sydney Gateway “will strengthen Sydney’s position as a global city, expanding and improving the existing road and freight rail networks”.

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Kingsford-Smith electorate profile

By ALLISON HORE Australia heads to the polls in May to decide who will represent us over the next four years. For those in NSW it’ll be the second election in a matter of months.

Will the status quo result of the NSW election be repeated? Or will there be the shake-up that many pundits are predicting?

Over the next few weeks, City Hub will be talking to federal election candidates across the city of Sydney and giving a rundown on the key issues.

The first seat we’ll be looking at is Kingsford-Smith in Sydney’s south east. It includes the suburbs of Botany, Coogee, Maroubra, Mascot and Randwick.

Labor member Matt Thistlethwaite has been sitting in the seat of KingsfordSmith since 2013. In the 2016 election, he won just under 59 per cent of the vote on a two-party preferred basis compared to Liberal candidate Michael Feneley’s 41 per cent.

Wilmot challenges Labor Before entering federal politics, Mr Thistlethwaite was a member of the NSW Legislative Council and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW. In the Gillard government, he served as Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs. In 2017, he was appointed Shadow Assistant Minister for an Australian Head of State after Labor announced it would push for a national vote on Australia becoming a republic.

The seat is relatively safe with Labor, but human rights lawyer Amanda Wilmot

suburbs this election. Mr Thistlethwaite launched Labor’s “Clean Our Oceans Program” alongside Tony Burke, the Opposition’s Environment spokesperson, in Coogee last month.

“The amount of plastic ending up in our oceans and choking marine life is alarming,” Mr Thistlethwaite said at the launch. “We want to make sure nippers and their parents don’t need to take plastic bottles to the beach or their local sports club and help increase awareness about the danger of single-use plastics.”

Amanda Wilmot (Liberal). Photo: Supplied

James Cruz (Greens). Photo: Supplied

Matt Thistlethwaite (Labor). Photo: Supplied

is expected to pose a strong challenge to the incumbent.

Ms Wilmot has a Masters degree in taxation and a Masters in international law. She has worked closely with the Kimberley Land Council in Broome to help remote Aboriginal communities develop project management and legal skills.

Facebook page she says, “As part of the Morrison Liberal team, I will support local families to reduce their cost of living pressures by supporting tax relief, improving access to childcare and lowering power bills”.

Also running for the seat is James Cruz for the Greens. Mr Cruz ran unsuccessfully for the seat of Maroubra in the recent NSW election and the 2015 election.

For him, it’s housing and climate change which he sees as key issues facing the electorate. He said it was his experience growing up in public housing in Maroubra that shaped his political ideas.

“Living in public housing, you can see that it’s in a really horrible state, it’s just not maintained,” he explains. “This gave me a lot of exposure to how the

system doesn’t really afford much to these people.”

Last year’s Wentworth by-election saw Malcolm Turnbull’s safe Liberal seat lost to Independent candidate Kerryn Phelps, who ran on a platform of addressing climate change. Mr Cruz sees this as evidence that the constituents are sick of major party inaction on climate change.

But he says voters have to be careful who they put on the crossbench.

“We’re seeing a rising number of smaller right-wing parties like One Nation and Fraser Anning’s Conservative Nationals Party,” he explains. “These people are anti-science, and if they’re on the crossbench then we will see a continuation of what we have now.”

Labor is also running under an environmental banner in the Eastern

We’re seeing a rising number of smaller rightwing parties like One Nation A long-term member of the Liberal Party, Ms Wilmot has previously run for Randwick Council on their ticket.

City Hub was unable to reach Ms Wilmot for an interview, but on her

Single-use plastic targeted The program aims to reduce and eventually eliminate entirely the use of single-use plastic bottles on Sydney’s beaches. Labor has pledged $3 million over the next four years to provide nippers’ programs with reusable bottles and to put in place 600 water refill stations at surf clubs around Australia.

Speaking on the NSW election, Mr Thistlethwaite admitted that the status quo results were “disappointing”.

“What we saw was a government limp across the line,” he says. “It’s really unfortunate because we will really suffer under another four years of the Liberals.”

Mr Cruz doesn’t think the Liberal Party should be too confident about its chances in the federal election based on the state results.

The government was expected to announce the date of the election after revealing its budget last week. However, the announcement was delayed. At the moment, 18 and 25 May are being floated as possible dates.

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Obituary for a ghost pub

By Joan Henson Glebians remember the Roxbury Hotel as a “ghost pub”, so it’s unsurprising Sydney Council’s local planning panel approved its demolition last Wednesday.

A red corner pub, closed for three years, is hard to ignore. But it seems the Roxbury was mediocre enough to inspire an unusual indifference.

Residents did not march to prevent a 2015 application to replace it with a boarding house, or last year’s to demolish it.

Previously known as the British Lion, the pub was established in the 1870s as a drinking hole for the manual workers of Forest Lodge, now a heritage area. In June 2000, it was refurbished and reopened as The Roxbury Hotel.

Flanked by competitors on either side, it tried to stand out. Around 2011, its open mics were an initiation rite for Sydney comedians.

But like many inner city pubs it was plagued by noise complaints in an increasingly sleepy neighbourhood.

market changes and noise complaints, and that “the refurbished and evolved Roxbury live venue never operated to expectations”.

William Ryan, owner of the Harold Park Hotel for a decade, knows firsthand that live music regulations continue to chip away at the cultural value of inner city pubs. In 2017, one complaint against his live acoustic performances in the pub’s courtyard meant he had to stop until he met certain standards.

“The council rangers came down the next day and said they would fine me $6,600 if I did it again… they asked me to put in a DA with acoustic reports, PA applications, neighbourhood consulting, and everything else that would cost me $25-30 000 dollars.”

Mr Ryan says, “Melbourne sorted this out years ago in Existing Usage and Appropriate Usage… without putting in a development application which is completely unviable”.

The Roxbury’s new owners will bring down the house. Photo: Newtown graffiti on Flickr

The Roxbury had long been stripped of its historical architectural value, and was described in Local concern lacking the development application as a 50-year-old “neutral The independent local planning panel building”. unanimously carried the application to Hands Off Glebe representative Denis Doherty substantially demolish the Roxbury and restore the said that his group is juggling many complaints about neighbouring heritage terrace to build a 33-room developments, but that no members had brought boarding house. Community submissions had concerns about the Roxbury, saying “you can’t raised concerns about parking, noise, shadowing, manufacture a campaign out of nothing.” safety and privacy.

Local memory seems to obscure the industry Glebe Society member Virginia Simpson-Young said recognition the Roxbury had garnered at its prime. A that her group had flagged the building’s heritage 2011 Yelp review by a budding comedian reanimates impacts. “The design of the building was out of a time when the Roxbury was making inroads into character with the existing heritage buildings in the Sydney’s broader entertainment culture. area, and therefore detracts from the conservation Seaton Kay-Smith, now Head of Development at area. Glebe Town Hall and Record Reign Hall the Paper Moose creative agency, had started doing are of high heritage value. The Roxbury was just stand-up that year, and was writing for Yelp. one of many pubs in Glebe. It was not particularly “The best way to get stage time back then was to culturally important.” do a couple of competitions. One of the best known

was the Quest for the Best at the Roxbury. They had weekly heats, a semi-final, and a grand-final.

When it was running it was a rite of passage for new comedians.”

The pub was packed for Wednesday’s Quest for the Best and Sunday’s Phuklub despite being slower nights. The demographic was people in their early 20s to 30s, and the room filled to capacity regularly with 50 people.

Our social life revolved entirely around seeing bands in pubs Mr Kay-Smith says that when new owners took over the culture changed, and a lot of the comedians moved to the Imperial Hotel.

Matthew Sen, owner of the neighbouring Forest Lodge Hotel, says the Roxbury flopped due to

Sydney losing musicians to Melbourne Ms Simpson-Young says Sydney is losing a lot of its good musicians to Melbourne. She says current threats to live music come from 1980s fire regulation enforcement, the pokies, digital streaming, and gentrification.

She laments that Sydney’s youth don’t get to enjoy the variety of inner city music that she did as a university student in the 1980s. “Our social life revolved entirely around seeing bands in pubs.

There were many bands on every night of the week. On Friday and Saturday nights there were 10 to 20 bands.”

Sydney Labor Councillor Linda Scott says, “I strongly supported the establishment of the Nightlife and Creative Sector Advisory Panel, after a motion I moved at Council, to let us know how we can do better. I’m excited to see how their recommendations can be implemented”.

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Opinion

I just don’t get it…

By Peter Hehir The NSW election result poses one hell of a conundrum.

Just how could such a people hostile government be given another term? Is it because there really isn’t an alternative?

Or is it because the mass of humanity is so very poorly informed, so ignorant and uneducated that they are simply led in the direction that the press barons dictate?

With the media almost totally in the hands of the top end of town – including print, radio and television, just how do you provide real information, the sort of hard facts that need to be presented, without editorial bias, that are absolutely necessary for ordinary people to form an informed opinion?

The local rag will only publish letters and articles that don’t challenge the status quo. They actively seek out those ravings that are highly critical of any alternative view. The Greens and their progressive agenda cop a real and unwarranted bashing here.

Frankly I’ve had a gutful of the Inner West Courier and its overtly neoliberal agenda. The same is true of all of the Murdoch publications. The biased views expressed in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for example pass as “news” for a great many in NSW and clearly distort the lay perspective and thinking.

This is not unintentional.

The commercial TV news is packaged just like any other scripted TV programme. We lead off with a

A face to sink a thousand ships. Photo: WikiCommons

disaster of some sort, follow it up with a parliamentary coup or booboo or two, juxtapose a series of newsworthy thematically linked events that the editor deems unlikely to challenge the status quo, toss in a good measure of violence to reinforce the notion that society is approaching the verge of

collapse in order to justify the need to come down hard on those who dare to challenge the system.

Then top the whole thing off with a good dose of fear – just to ensure that everyone toes the line. And a feel good story is added as a sweetener.

This approach specifically targets

the “ists” among us. The activists, the environmentalists and conservationists and non-conformists are lumped in with the terrorists. All enemies of the system with little distinction drawn.

The Marxists, socialists and communists have long been effectively pilloried and are figures of scorn, while the capitalists, industrialists, materialists and the fascists are extolled as beacons of virtue.

Anything that is likely to raise a serious question is anathema and is avoided like the plague. If it has to be reported then the accompanying text is so biased as to be nonsensical.

When they’re not worried about their appearance, the presenters are more preoccupied with sensationalism than substance.

And so the hoi polloi continue to be treated like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed on shit.

The establishment controls the agenda, not just on the airwaves and in the printing presses but in the classrooms and the places of worship. These bastions of conservatism are sacrosanct. Challenge them at your peril.

Real information is so very hard to come by. Misinformation is the currency of the neoconservative.

They revel in it.

Climate change is a furphy, rapid fauna and flora extinctions aren’t happening, the air is fit to breathe, the water is fine to drink, plastic doesn’t exist in food or in the ocean, monoculture is a good thing, the Murry Darling is doing fine, tollroads

are our salvation, people really like living in little boxes made out of ticky tacky, amphibians are OK and the insects are just having a break…

Just where and how are people expected to get the facts that they need in order to formulate and express an informed opinion? Is the vote of an ignorant person the equal of that of the enlightened?

When considered perspectives struggle to find an outlet, real informational gems are drowned out in a cacophony of mediocrity.

So is it really any wonder that Berejiklian was re-elected?

The relentless march of Berejiklian’s crew, as they devour public assets with the voracious appetite of a horde of army ants, goes unchecked. Seemingly unquestioned even. Accepted as good business.

This is news, but the Murdoch media doesn’t see it as such. It’s just business as usual. A rite of passage from public ownership – paid for by previous generations and held in trust for the benefit of those yet to come – into their private hands.

Is this really the Australian way?

In four years’ time what will there be left to sell? Is it the fault of the ordinary person that they’ve been dumbed down, duped and led down the garden path? Is the media accountable? Is it the education system? The teachers? The church leaders?

Just who the hell is responsible?

It’s got me fucked…

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Easter Treats

home for growers and producers for over a century and once again this year they’re offering Sydneysiders an incredible range of fresh produce, at super affordable prices. While you’re there you can also pick up all of your Good Friday seafood fresh from the boats at the fresh seafood market.

During your feast shopping, you may also want to grab a few last minute chocolates or small Easter gifts and Paddy’s has that covered for you too, likely at the cheapest prices anywhere Eggless in the city.

Easter The fun doesn’t stop at Paddy’s Brunch.

Haymarket once Easter rolls around Photo: though. During the school holidays, supplied the markets will continue as always, but there will be added entertainment

By Jamie Apps for the kids. Whether that is in the So if you haven’t realised yet we’re form of arts events in the library, face only a week away from Easter, and that painting, the roaming Easter Bunny or means if you haven’t already got all of the magician/balloon twister. your gifts and food shopping completed or planned you’re probably in need of some ideas. Luckily for you, the team at City Hub have been scouring the city to find some of the best locations to purchase all of your seafood, meat and fresh produce for the Good Friday or Easter feasts.

Along the way, we found some unique gift ideas too and have compiled all of that into this handy guide.

Sydney Markets - Paddy’s Haymarket For the ultimate one-stop shop head on down to Paddy’s Haymarket. The markets at Haymarket have been the

Cannery If you’re looking to up the flair on your Easter feasts then you should head down to the Cannery in Rosebery. At the heart of the local community, The Cannery offers a foodie experience like no other. The light and airy converted warehouse is home to some of Sydney’s best bakers, distillers, brewers, greengrocers, butcher and an artisan bottle shop.

Artisanal food, speciality ingredients and the freshest finds are bought in from farms across Australia and offer everything you need to stock a healthy and wholesome pantry.

will feature a cruelty-free, plant-based menu, a raffle with fantastic prizes and will be raising funds for three Australian safe havens for ex-battery hens and rabbits: A Poultry Place, NSW Hen Rescue and Porsche’s Rescue.

The event will also feature a speaker from one of the animal rescues, a selection of pop-up stands for last minute Easter gifts, an ‘awareness corner’ with information about the egg and dairy industry and a ‘meet the animals’ corner with information on the animals in care as well as adoptable animals.

“This is an inclusive pre-Easter event Eggless Easter Brunch for vegans and non-vegans alike and a Before you begin the shopping fantastic compassionate alternative for marathon get into the Easter spirit by those that do not eat animal products attending the inaugural charity event such as milk chocolate or chicken eggs Eggless Easter Brunch at Solander on Easter but still enjoy having a fun Dining & Bar. This fun Easter fundraiser day out with friends and family,” said event organiser Aline Dürr.

Fresh Food Market at Paddy’s Haymarket.

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by Sydney Markets

Sydney Fish Market Good Fry-day is the when the Sydney Fish Market goes into a fish frenzy with 12 straight hours of seafood shopping. The market will open at 5am for its busiest day of the year. Up to 650 tonnes of seafood varying across 100 species is expected to be sold, along with everything else needed for an Easter Feast. It’s a great family day too, with the Easter Bunny handing out chocolate eggs between 11am and 2pm and plenty of great meal

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options. You can take a break and enjoy lunch on the boardwalk or sip wine/beer/cocktails/mineral water/ coffee while looking out over the bay. There’s parking on site and nearby, or you can catch the Light Rail or bus. When you get home, visit the Sydney Seafood School website for delicious recipe ideas.

Hypmotive Hub This weekend Sydneysiders will also have the opportunity to pick up a quirky and creative gift for Easter at Hypmotive Hub’s upcoming Meet The Makers Marketplace. The Pickards miniature chocolate wrapper glass artworks are a clever, sugar-free gift alternative or you give the gift a whimsical Easter-inspired art illustration by local Inner West artist Emily Julia Naudi.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Chamber Pot Opera

Flying Fruit Fly Circus Junk

The Flying Fruit Fly Circus began as a school holiday workshop in 1979. Forty years later it is a major national training organisation in circus skills for young talent and produces some of the most thrilling shows in the country.

Junk, their latest touring production, is a perfect example.

In a fusion of theatre and circus, Junk tells the story of a modern teenage boy who is risk-averse and devoid of life experience due to an over-protective, insular social culture. He stumbles upon a junkyard inhabited by the spirits of children from the 1940s who gradually teach him the joy of exploration and selfdiscovery. Director Jodie Farrugia says she was inspired to create the piece after observing the technology-centred play habits of present-day kids including her own daughters.

“It made me really reflect on what life was like in the childhood of the past, and I chose the 1940s, in particular, to focus on,” explains Farrugia.

“And it’s a regional Australian story. So we worked very closely with eight Australian elders who were children in the 1940s and

grew up in Albury-Wodonga.”

The eight men and women from local aged care facilities spent time with the performers, recounting tales of their respective childhoods. These recollections were then storyboarded.

“There is a narrative, and it’s a very easily accessible narrative, but it’s all non-verbal,” explains Farrugia. “Then on top of all that is the wonderful, incredible circus skills that the young artists are doing onstage.”

The narrative explores themes around freedom of movement, discovering boundaries, taking risks, and being creative. It also looks at sustainability in a world of excess and materialism.

“The more we don’t use our imagination around recycling and reusing things, the more of an unsustainable world we’re creating,” says Farrugia.

Junkyard items are used as props and apparatus - and there’s not a digital device in sight. (RB) Apr 17 & 18. Riverside Theatres, Cnr Church & Market St, Parramatta. $16$39+b.f.Tickets & Info: www. riversideparramatta.com.au

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public toilet. As the blurb tells us, “One is in an abusive relationship, another is terrified she has come on too strong on a date, and the third has just landed her dream job.”

Why a bathroom?

“Everyone loves singing in the shower so naturally, it’s a wonderful place to stage an intimate and moving story. This is opera like you will never see it – up close and personal. The highest art form in the lowest space,” said Williams.

CPO has performed for six seasons in Adelaide, Edinburgh and St Petersburg, Russia in five bathrooms around the world.

I asked Clemence if they’ve ever had difficulties finding suitable venues in the company’s travels around the world?

Director Clemence Williams developed small-minded stereotypes that exist in “Absolutely,” she replies. “On two Chamber Pot Opera along with coopera.” occasions we had to use the men’s creators Keiren Brandt-Sawdy and The unusual setting for this show is the bathroom and cover up the urinals to Thomas De Angelis in response to the Playhouse Ladies Bathroom at the Sydney create seating banks.” (ID) limited roles for women in opera.

Opera House, where only 42 audience Until Apr 28.The Playhouse Ladies She says, “When I was studying voice, I members will be admitted at any time.

Bathroom, Sydney Opera House, was told I could sing the ‘Witches, bitches Against a pastiche of music by Puccini, Bennelong Point, Sydney. or breeches’ roles as a mezzo-soprano, Mozart and Bizet, this production tells $45-$55+b.f.Tickets & Info: so this opera attempts to debunk those the story of three women who meet in a www.sydneyoperahouse.com

A Little Piece Of Ash

JackRabbit Theatre is set to present the world premiere of Megan Wilding’s debut play A Little Piece Of Ash at Kings Cross Theatre (KXT).The play focuses on Jedda, a young Aboriginal woman dealing with the grief and loss of losing her mother. Based on her own experiences, Megan will bring her heart-wrenchingly sad yet beautifully funny play to the stage, not only as the show’s writer but as a cast member and the director of the piece.

Proud Aboriginal actor Stephanie Sommerville plays the role of Jedda in the play, and spoke about her immediate love and appreciation for the show, “I remember when I read it the first time what an incredible play it was and how different I thought it was.” Of her character Jedda, Steph shared, “Jedda is a bit of a loose unit!

What I like about her is that she’s very multidimensional.

She can be a bit of an asshole but also has an amazing capacity for love.”

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This is not the first work that Megan and Steph have worked on together, having both studied at WAPA

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before moving to Sydney.

“She [Megan] was always someone that I very much looked up to and idolised,”

Steph said. “It’s been very exciting getting to work with her on a professional level.”

The show certainly incorporates Aboriginal themes and heritage into its storyline, an element that Steph feels a strong connection to, saying, “… there’s a link between death and The Dreaming and how death is not the end, it’s just a change.”

A Little Piece Of Ash was shortlisted for the 2017 Patrick White Playwrights Award and is set to enthral audiences at KXT during its debut. Of the play’s premiere, Steph said, “I think audiences can expect to be a little bit surprised. Although it’s a play about grief, there’s a lot of comedy in it, a lot of absurdity, just like in life.”

(MB) Apr 16-27. Kings Cross Theatre, 244-246 William St, Potts Point. $35-$40+b.f.Tickets & Info: www.jackrabbittheatre.com

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Venus In Fur

Centred around gender, power and sex, David Ives’ Venus In Fur will be taking over art space 107 (Redfern Street) with the tagline: “You don’t have to tell me about sadomasochism. I’m in the theatre.” Venus In Fur promises to provide audiences with an

evening of politics, sex and entertainment. Its challenging themes and confronting dialogue equate to an electric night at the theatre.

Director Emma Burns spoke about Venus In Fur and reading it for the first time.

“I think it’s the most phenomenal piece of theatre I’ve ever read…it’s explosive. It talks about so many human experiences and how difficult it can be for men and women to relate to one another.”

The play confronts many themes, with the physicality of sex and power being played out on the stage. Emma said, “The text itself is very naturalistic in the way it’s been written. But then there was one rehearsal where we spent about 45 minutes working out how to stroke someone’s face…it’s such a complex play movement wise.”

Venus In Fur is a play that certainly won’t fall short when it comes to challenging audiences and stimulating discussion among those who see it. Emma’s closing words on the piece were, “people can expect to have their ideas challenged and they can expect to have their values challenged, particularly when it comes to gender and sex and power.” (MB) Apr 10-13. 107 (Redfern Street), 107 Redfern Street, Sydney. $22-$27+b.f.

Tickets & Info: www.facebook.com

WE.ARE Dance Project - FOUND What does it mean to be found? WE.ARE Dance Project explores this question through their premiere season FOUND. The WE.ARE Dance Project is a not-for-profit dance company run by dancers, for dancers. Its mission is to create new works and employment opportunities for Australian dancers.

Choreographer and creative director, Steve Tannos, says the show explores the concept of being found through the lens of struggling with identity, finding love and dealing with expectations.

“I am drawing on a lot of ideas I’ve had over the years, and WE.ARE is an outlet for me to put those ideas into place and make something new and fresh,” he says.

He says the show will take the audience on an “emotional rollercoaster” and will incorporate the individual and collective talent of a “world class” group of dancers.This is his first time choreographing a show of his own, where he has complete creative control.

Tannos is known for this work with artists such as Ricky Martin, Natalie Bassingthwaite and Jessica Mauboy. In 2009 he was selected as a member of the Top 20 in So You Think You Can Dance Australia.

His choreography has also been featured on The Voice Australia and Channel 9’s program Dance Boss.

He says working on Dance Boss gave him lots of experience working with and choreographing for a diverse group of dancers.

“It gave me more of an insight into working with different abilities and trying to relate to all kinds of different people.” (AH) Apr 12-14. NIDA Parade Theatre, 215, Anzac Parade, Kensington, from $50+b.f.

Tickets & Info: www.ticketek.com.au

THE NAKED CITY

A COKE, A JAM SANDWICH, A BEX AND A GOOD LIE DOWN! With Coffin Ed Back in the 50s and 60s the hard working Australian housewife would often find herself in need of a well-earned break after a full and often stressful day of household chores and kiddie care.Around 3pm it was often time for “a Bex, a cup of tea and a good lie down,” as the popular advertising slogan encouraged.

Bex and Vincents APC powders were a potent mix of Phenacetin,Aspirin and Caffeine.Widely marketed as the instant pick up for anybody in need of ‘revitalisation’ during the working day.They were often addictive and it was not only the suburban housekeeper who regularly popped up to three a day.

Office and factory workers also developed the habit and it was not uncommon for some large manufacturing plants to distribute free powders to their employees to boost their productivity and keep them wide awake on the job.

At the then omnipresent corner shop, a popular combination was a Coke and a Bex, providing a double dose of caffeine. It was also not unheard of for mothers to calm down an overexcited child with

a Bex loaded jam sandwich.Whether anybody ever chose to snort or shoot up a Bex is open to question but their usage was certainly endemic.

By the early 70s the side effects of Phenacetin were being seriously questioned.Also known as Acetophenetidin, the drug was developed by the Bayer company in Germany in 1887, an accidental byproduct of a treatment for intestinal worms. It soon became clear that regular use of Bex and Vincents could cause chronic renal failure.As early as the beginning of the 1960s however, an Australian nephrologist Professor Priscilla Kincaid-Smith had

made the connection between phenacetin and kidney cancer while treating mainly women patients.They had presented with what came to be known as analgesic nephropathy. Needless to say, Government scrutiny of over the counter drugs moved slowly in those days.

The case was cited of one Sydney factory worker Norma O’Hara who took Bex Powders sometimes twice a day, every day for up to eight years, from the age of 20.Working at the Rosebery Wrigley’s factory she was quoted as saying “most of the girls took Bex… it was to keep you going.Working the machines, you thought you needed them.”

By the late 70s all APC powders had either been banned or withdrawn from the market in Australia with Phenacetin pulled from sale in 1983. Surprisingly, despite the fact that many people probably died from constant use of these powders, there remains a certain nostalgia for what was obviously a dangerous drug. Old packets of Bex, complete with unopened papers, still trade on the internet for upwards of $100 each and are eagerly sought by collectors of classic Australiana.

Meet The Makers Marketplace This weekend Marrickville’s incredible creative space Hypmotive Hub will be giving the local community an opportunity to engage with the human faces behind the incredible works available in the store.

The Meet The Makers Marketplace is a unique opportunity to not only browse the wide selection of items ranging from clothing and handcrafted jewellery to homewares and local creative workshops, whilst also enjoying live art demonstrations and live music.

“Hypmotive is all about inspiring and empowering people to live creatively. Part of how we deliver this is by providing a platform and retail space to emerging

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and established local artists, designers and makers so they can grow their small independent business and continue to develop their creative ideas,” said coowner Renee Russo. Bearing this in mind Meet The Makers allows the community to build a personal relationship with the people behind the creative works that they love and thus forming an even stronger bond between the artists, businesses and buyers.

Attendees this weekend will have the opportunity to meet emerging artist John Watts, from Pitok who was recently selected by a panel of industry experts as an emerging Australian artist to watch, Lauren Voc the creative mind behind minimalist, handcrafted jewellery

Ironically these days Phenacetin is often used to bulk up and provide an additional hit in batches of cocaine, with the users probably unaware that not only their nasal tissues but their kidneys are also at risk. In America at the moment the heat is very much on pharmaceutical companies like Perdue and their aggressive marketing of the painkilling opioid OxyContin which has led to widespread addiction.

Back in 50s and 60s Australia, Bex and Vincents powders were also marketed with considerable push, promising a cure-all for ‘Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago...Influenza and Cold in early stages’.As far as I know, the companies that flogged these products were never taken to court and sued by users suffering their often lethal side effects, unlike Perdue in the US which currently faces a mountain of litigation.

As a postscript I can still remember one of my elderly aunties brewing up a cuppa, pouring in a Bex (or two) and pushing a jam scone in my direction. I was about 13 at the time and a typical boisterous teenager. God knows whether I was being innocently doped with Phenacetin!

brand Ayana,Yoko Kawada who will be showcasing her Kintsugi ceramic range in collaboration with visual artist Seema Stamou (Kintsugi is the traditional Japanese art of golden joinery), John Shepherdson from Light Industrial whom specialises in vintage and industrial lighting and Pete Sutherland from Common Wood Co who has innovated homeware items by using recycled skateboards decks and reclaimed Australian timber to handcraft his wood wares range.

Plus many more!

Apr 13. Hypmotive Hub, 155 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville. FREE. Info: www.facebook.com/hypmotive

Jess Ribeiro - LOVE HATE

Bring Me The Horizon

By Jamie Apps Prior to their performance at Qudos Bank Arena tomorrow night City Hub sat down with Bring Me The Horizon bassist Matt Kean. We spoke about the UK band’s goals and intentions for this tour, as well as their recently released record amo.

“We’re hoping to be the gateway band for a lot of people [to discover heavy rock music]” explained Kean. The group is hoping to do this both with their updated live show and the new record, which sees them breaking many genre boundaries. This direction began to manifest itself for the band naturally said Kean, “We didn’t sit down thinking we needed to write a specific album, it just came naturally. The big influences on the album were the things we grew up listening to, whether that was dance music or pop or rock.”

The new direction the band took with this record was to make their “sound a little more appealing to a mainstream audience whilst keeping the roots” of what got them to this point. In order to do just that the group looked towards electronic dance music and other pioneering bands of this style.

“There is a huge crossover [between rock and dance music], which started in the 90s with bands like The Prodigy,”

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explained Kean before adding, “Growing up in the UK you were surrounded by dance music, even if you were into rock, so it was fairly natural for us to incorporate those elements.”

The band wanted to explore this direction because they believe that, “There’s definitely an appeal in heavy rock music for people who enjoy the music at the heavy end of the EDM scene.”

Obviously, this new direction is finding an audience as the album quickly surpassed one million streams, and also

received a Grammy Award nomination.

Something which came as a significant shock for Kean and the band.

“We’re just five kids from Sheffield who started a band when we were 17 or 18 years of age. We never even thought we’d play outside of the UK when we first started so it’s all been beyond even our wildest dreams.”

The group looks to continue to live out their dreams tomorrow with their performance in Sydney. For this tour, the group has reworked the production and setlist, which has refreshed the live performance aspect for the band members.

Whilst you may immediately think they’ve added elements to the live show Kean was quick to point that they have in fact done the complete opposite.

“To be honest we’ve actually taken stuff away compared to our last tour because we wanted to make it a little bit more organic.You guys have not seen this show before, we mix in the new songs with some of the old classics to create a really varied set list that is a really cool experience for people who come and see us.”

Apr 12. Qudos Band Arena, 19 Edwin Flack Ave, Sydney Olympic Park. $99.90-$119.90+b.f. Tickets & Info: www.bmthofficial.com

The Aftermath

Set in war-torn Hamburg at the end of WWII, Lewis Morgan, a colonel of the British Forces Germany (Jason Clarke) reunites with his wife Rachael (Keira Knightley).They forcibly live in

the mansion of German widower Stefan Lubert (Alexander Skarsgard) and his troubled daughter, while Lewis is in charge of rebuilding the city.

It’s quite apparent from the onset that a love triangle will emerge, as Stefan and Rachael have both lost a loved one to war and have empty voids in their lives to fill.

As passion builds, will Rachael ultimately decide to move back to London with her husband or run off to start a new life with her German lover?

BBC’s involvement in this film resonates profoundly, boasting mesmerising cinematography and a very stylish and ambitious production which should please passionate World War drama enthusiasts.

The predictably soapy elements strongly illustrate that forbidden love and lust may ultimately flourish regardless of ethnicity or circumstance and should ensure that incurable romantics in the audience keep their tissues in reach. (MMo) WWW1/2

The title of Jess Ribeiro’s third album, LOVE HATE, certainly reveals everything you would need to know about its thematic content. The record traverses the theory that we experience love over the course of seven stages - attraction, infatuation, love, reverence, worship, obsession, death.

Sonically the record is vastly different to her previous offerings but keeps her incredibly compelling and beautiful voice a focal point. Ribeiro’s voice is used throughout the record as an instrument to heighten the various other instruments around it.

LOVE HATE is filled with metaphors, double entendres and hidden messages which will require multiple listens to fully decipher. (JA) WWW1/2

Wahoo Ghost - The Eighth Door

Sydney based trio Wahoo Ghost are an alternative rock band featuring Charli Rainford on vocals/guitar/percussion. Rob Crow taking on guitar/bass/piano and the role of producer, with Jarvis Wooley playing drums. The band draw on an array of influences and blend the sounds of atmospheric blues, psychedelia and indie into one.

Their new album, The Eighth Door, features eight tracks each with their own unique sound. Opening the album with psychedelic rock track She Wolf, which is an absolute trip. The record then moves into slower tracks Superstar and debut single, Feline Desire.

The stand out track on the album is, River Beast with its Stevie Knicks vibe, the ending with a chilled almost lullaby track Forever Daze.

An easy listen that will have you feeling all nostalgic. (RH) WWW1/2

mid90s

It’s Summertime in LA and troubled 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Soljic) comes across an intriguing collection of older boys who spend their days skateboarding, hanging around the local skateboard shop, smoking, drinking, partying with girls (when they could be bothered), and getting filmed by the aspiring filmmaker amongst them. One of the group is only slightly older than Stevie and sees an opportunity to rise in the pecking order, so aids his introduction, but to his resentment, Stevie (or ‘Sunburn’, as he becomes known) proves popular.To build on this Stevie is willing to take risks and indulge in everything the group does to the

nth degree. But nothing is free of consequences.

The performances from the mostly young cast in Jonah Hill’s directorial debut are impressive, but too often there are dead ends in the

narrative and in the characters themselves. By the end, we can feel we’ve had a sneakpeak into an ever-developing sub-culture, but little else.

(CCov) WWW

Crime Wave - Spanish Film Festival

From Spain comes this comedy-thriller which should have audiences rolling down the aisles in fits of laughter!

When a woman’s son kills her ex-husband in a moment of rage, she tries to conceal the crime from the authorities. As a result, ludicrously hilarious scenes unfold, compounded by a missing corpse, the arrival of her sickly mother and sexual advances from an oversexed teenager.

Light-hearted with a simplistic storyline, this film boasts high production values and a charismatic ensemble cast. There’s violence and bloodshed in this 4-star comedy, which is curiously unaffecting owing to a cleverly written comedic script which would make

American scriptwriters sit up and take notice.

If this film is anything to go by, the Spanish Film Festival should be a massive success this year. The program consists of 32 American Latino and Spanish films, of which 11 are directed by women. Goya Award-winning Champions opens the festival, followed by an afterparty with Spanish food, drinks and entertainment.

Two films which come highly recommended

by Paulette Arvizo, the Festival Manager, are Spanish produced The Realm, a true-life political thriller which explores corruption within the system and The Good Girls, a Mexican film which details how women in high social standing kept up appearances of

grandeur during the economic crisis of the 80s.

Arvizo explained that this festival is for everybody, regardless of nationality. “It’s always interesting to see films from different parts of the world, especially with all the Latin American titles we have. Stories we’re not familiar with told through the eyes of these Latin American filmmakers. Learning about differences in the cultures – Australia being so multi-cultural it’s important to have a glance at people’s lives around the world.”

(MMo) Apr 16–May 8. Palace Central, Palace Verona, Palace Norton St. $22-$70.Tickets & Info: www.spanishfilmfestival.com city hub 11 APRIL 2019

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Easter HAPPY

HAYMARKET ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE SATURDAY 13 APRIL 2pm-4pm Colouring in for the Kids • Face painting Roaming balloon twister and magician A visit from the Easter Bunny

SUNDAY 14 APRIL 2pm-4pm Colouring in for the Kids Roaming balloon twister and magician A visit from the Easter Bunny

THURSDAY 18 APRIL 2pm-4pm Face painting Roaming balloon twister and magician A visit from the Easter Bunny

GOOD FRIDAY 19 APRIL 2pm-4pm Colouring in for the Kids • Face painting Roaming balloon twister and magician A visit from the Easter Bunny

EASTER SATURDAY 20 APRIL 2pm-4pm Colouring in for the Kids Roaming balloon twister and magician A visit from the Easter Bunny

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