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The NSW government is brewing up reforms to address the state’s gambling problem
By ALLISON HORE he pokie industry in NSW is set for a big shake up as the Berejiklian government drafts legislation to help combat the state’s gambling problem. Under the proposed legislation family members of problem gamblers could apply to have their relatives banned from gaming venues and facial recognition technology could be used to identify problem gamblers. Venues would be fined up to $27,500 if they fail to stop self-excluded gamblers. The bill would also require venues to have a staff member who had undertaken advanced training to help people stay safe rostered on for each shift and put into place a gambling incident register, similar to the one that exists for alcohol related incidents.
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The man behind the bill, NSW Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello, said NSW has been slow when it comes to gambling reform and wants to see the state leading the way. “The reality is we are number one when it comes to how many poker machines we’ve got, but we’re the laggard when it comes to harm minimisation measures,” he said. With 95,000 poker machines across the state, NSW is the number one state for number of poker machines. And the industry has been lucrative for the NSW government and hospitality industry. More than $6.5 billion in state taxes are brought in each year from pokie machines, and hotels across the greater Sydney region alone raked in $1 billion of pokie profit in the first 6 months of 2019.
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The legislation has not been warmly received by the Australian Hotels Association (AHA) NSW and Clubs NSW who say they are “concerned by the potential impact and cost” of the proposed legislation. They say that they have been “disappointed” with the government’s lack of consultation with industry. Clubs NSW CEO, Josh Landis, said clubs across the state are committed to harm minimisation but the proposed changes had “gone too far, too soon”. “Gaming revenue has fallen 14 per cent year-on-year as a result of the 10-week industry shutdown, while food and beverage takings are down 60 to 70 per cent,” he said. “I don’t think anyone would agree
that the middle of a pandemic is the right time to introduce onerous new compliance requirements.” AHA NSW CEO John Whelan agrees. He said that the industry has been committed to “good harm-minimisation policy”. “We don’t believe our patrons want to be monitored through facial recognition each and every time they catch up with mates at the pub,” he said. The Greens, who have supported the Berejiklian government’s proposed legislation, are urging the government to “to stand firm in the face of a predictable hissy fit by Clubs NSW and the AHA”. Greens gambling spokesperson Cate Faehrmann MLC said the legislation isn’t about money, but people’s lives. Continued on page 2
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“People who are addicted to poker machines can lose everything as they feed their addiction, including hundreds of thousands of dollars, their jobs, their loved ones and tragically, even their lives,” she said. Mr. Dominello told the ABC last week one of the factors influencing the creation of the bill was the death of Gary Van Duinen, a gambling addict who took his own life in 2018 after a 13-hour pokie binge at Dee Why RSL. Over two years he gambled around $3.7 million and lost $230,000. Despite industry concern about the impacts of COVID-19, in NSW gambling skyrocketed when lockdown ended. Across the state there was a total of $571 million in gambling losses in June. This was more than $40 million higher than in the same period last year.
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“AN ABSOLUTE JOKE”
Alliance for Gambling Reform Chief Advocate, Rev Tim Costello, supports the harm minimisation legislation. He said the current system is “an absolute joke” and the controversial facial recognition technology is just one part of the bill. “The proposed legislation, for the first time, really puts the onus back on clubs and pubs to do the right thing and they clearly don’t like it,” he said. “The key part of this legislation is forcing pubs and clubs to have properly trained people actively enforcing self-exclusion, something the industry has blatantly failed to do for decades.” The proposed legislation isn’t the only overhaul set for the pokie industry in NSW. On Saturday the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the Berejiklian
NSW is home to more than half of the country’s pokie machines. Photo: Flickr/Threthny
government was also considering a move to make poker machines completely cashless. To be able to use pokie machines players would be required to register for a government-issued gambling card which they would have to pre-load money on to. The card would be linked to the state’s exclusion register to block out thousands of selfexcluded gamblers. While the cashless plan is yet to be included in the legislation Mr. Dominello says he has crossbench support for it from the Greens and One Nation’s Mark Latham. As for the bill, One Nation, the Greens, the Animal Justice Party, Fred Nile and Justin Field are all expected to back it. This means the legislation will likely have the numbers to pass. The Labor party has not yet indicated whether it will support the reforms.
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Sydney’s food bowl at risk BY MERRILL WITT ast Friday, the Daily Telegraph reported that the Berejiklian government had reached an in-principle agreement with acting Nationals leader Paul Toole to weaken the Koala State Environment Planning Policy (Koala SEPP) in preparation for its cabinet meeting this week. More than likely, the watering down of the Koala SEPP will be remembered as yet another example of how property developers have been remarkably effective in convincing governments to abandon or modify policies that impinge on the development potential of their holdings. The influential developer lobbying group Urban Taskforce, for example, was quick to back Mr Barilaro’s demands that the Koala SEPP be rescinded. Its media release of 11 September said that the Koala SEPP would have “unintended economic consequences”.
After the greenbelt proposal was abandoned, more than 2,500 hectares of rural land designated for the green overlay zones was released to create 12,000 extra home lots. Although media reports suggest that the Covid-19 pandemic will dampen the immigration growth rate and likely lead to a housing glut, the Government hasn’t pushed the pause button on its plans to accommodate around 2.4 million more people in Sydney by 2041.
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In recent decades, similar arguments about the “unintended economic consequences” of putting the wider public interest ahead of the rights of private property owners have been allowed to shape urban growth in Sydney. But this “growth-first” approach to planning is not immune to its own “unintended economic consequences.” Questions are now being asked about whether replacing Greater Sydney’s agricultural lands with housing makes sense at a time when the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the advantages of securing a local food supply chain.
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SYDNEY NEEDS LOCAL FOOD
A farm in Horsely Park, less than 40km away from Sydney’s CBD. Photo: Sue Gay
Remarkably, the Sydney Basin still supplies around 20% of Sydney’s fresh food and accounts for a $1 billion of the state’s $16 billion annual agricultural income, according to a recent article in The Australian. Regrettably, much of this will soon disappear if the current pace of urban development continues. UTS’s Sydney’s Food Futures Report estimates that in less than 14 years, regional Sydney farms will only contribute about 5% of the city’s fresh food.
GREENBELT PROTECTION PROPOSAL DEFEATED In 2005, the then Labor government tried to codify Sydney’s greenbelt. The proposal was designed to limit urban sprawl, preserve agricultural lands, protect biodiversity and secure habitat connectivity for the area’s wildlife. Thousands of landholdings, including
market gardens, hobby farms and large rural estates in and around the Growth Centres, were to be permanently protected from urbanisation.
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loudly complain about the Draft Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan Unfortunately, the plan’s release caused a very public outcry from affected landowners, who were disappointed that their properties would no longer be eligible for a potential windfall increase in land value from a future zoning change. Faced with a growing backlash, the government withdrew the proposal while it was still on public exhibition.
In their book, The Future of the Fringe, RMIT academics Andrew Butt and Michael Buxton argue that rural land within 150 kilometres of a major city is essential for human survival. The authors question the wisdom of treating peri-urban landscapes as “land awaiting development.” The former agricultural minister and former deputy Nationals leader Niall Blair, who is now a professor of food sustainability at Curtin University, told the Sydney Morning Herald that the Koala SEPP didn’t “have farmers marching in the street.” Hopefully, farmers will loudly complain about the Draft Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan now on public exhibition. It proposes reclassifying around 10,000 hectares of rural land to accommodate four more growth centres. In the meantime, perhaps Mr Blair could take advantage of his new role as an expert on food sustainability to press upon his former National Party colleagues the important economic, social, and environmental benefits of securing the future of Sydney’s food bowl.
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Who was Australia’s most sexist in 2020
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BY ALLISON HORE hich Australian public figure made the most sexist comments in 2020? Jayson Westbury did, according to the Ernie Awards, an annual awards ceremony celebrates “world class sexism and inappropriate speech.” Jayson Westbury, CEO of the Australian Federation of Travel Agents, was awarded the Gold Ernie for saying journalist Tracey Grimshaw “needs to be given a firm uppercut or a slap across the face” for her reporting on a travel industry refund scandal. Ernie’s founder and organiser, Dr. Meredith Burgmann told City Hub despite not being able to run the big event this because of COVID-19 she was still keen to hold the ceremony as women had sent in 250 nominations throughout the year. Ineligible for the Gold Ernie was Bettina Arndt who received three separate nominations for The Elaine award for comments she made throughout the year, including one congratulating the Queensland police for “keeping an open mind” to the idea a man who killed his wife and children “might have been ‘driven too far”.
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While comments promoting violence against women have always raised eyebrows, over the 28 years the event has been running, Dr. Burgmann said there have been some changes in the kinds of comments which are made and the people giving them. In the early days of the awards it was the trade unions where a bulk of the Ernie worthy comments came from. The award itself is named after Ernie Ecob, secretary of the AWU, the old Shearers’ Union, who famously said that women only wanted to be shearers for the sex. In 1993 when he announced his resignation, women
involved in NSW’s trade union movement decided to have a lunch to celebrate. From that first lunch, the Ernies grew into what it is today- an annual ceremony awarding the best of the worst sexist remarks by public figures. But in the years since then Dr. Burgmann said the trade unions have really cleaned up their act. Dr. Burgmann said comments deriding womens’ sports have also decreased as womens’ sport becomes more prominent. She also noted that more women in news rooms means some of the comments which used to slide by unchecked are now forced into the spotlight. “The way in which women journalists have become more prevalent and more important has made a big difference in that they are reporting on these remarks, which has been terrific,” she said. The rise of social media and websites like twitter has also led to a lot more attention being paid to offhand sexist remarks which in the past may have gotten little attention. The boys at Sydney’s elite Shore Grammar School, shortlisted this year in the Ernies celebrity category, started a social media firestorm with their “Triwizard Shorenament” which included a number of sexist challenges. “Social media definitely emphasises it when someone says something terrible,” Dr. Burgmann said. More than just good fun, Dr. Burgmann hopes the archives they have been collecting for almost three decades might be useful for research into sexism in the media. She said she has been thinking of writing something on the changing and persisting nature of the kinds of sexist comments The Ernies award. “We’ve been collecting these sorts of comments for 28 years and it’s a sort of longitudinal study that I don’t think has been done anywhere else in the world,” she said.
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New campaign for Aboriginal affordable housing BY ALLISON HORE boriginal community groups have come together to launch a campaign seeking government action and targets for Aboriginal affordable housing in the Redfern and Waterloo area.
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The petition launched by The Redfern Waterloo Alliance of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations and Allies calls on the NSW government to commit to 10% Aboriginal Affordable Housing in all government redevelopments in the Waterloo area. They also want the government to ensure community housing providers are Aboriginal owned and managed or work in partnership with an Aboriginal led organisations. “We seek a policy response and commitment to targets from the NSW Government to deliver Aboriginal affordable housing on all “government controlled” land in the Redfern Waterloo area,” they say in the petition. Redfern is an important place for Aboriginal people and has set the
scene for many important events in the Aboriginal civil rights movement including significant self-determination actions like the 1938 Day of Mourning and the 1965 Freedom Ride.
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Gentrification has meant that historically working class inner-city suburbs such as Redfern and Waterloo have become highly desirable suburbs in the ‘property market’. But these rent hikes have meant much of the property in the area is unaffordable to Indigenous people.
A HOME IN THE INNER-CITY
Siobhán Bryson, CEO Weave Youth & Community Services said it is crucial that Aboriginal communities still have a home in the inner city.
“The Aboriginal young people who we support at Weave Youth & Community Services are very much connected to their community and proud of where they come from. This is where they grew up and it’s where their friendships, family and cultural roots are,” she said. “We need to make sure there is still a place for them in this community into the future, a place that they can afford to live as they grow and develop, enter the workforce, start their own families and make their way in the world.” In January 2019, the NSW Government released their Master Plan for Waterloo which would include 30 percent of new dwellings being set aside as social housing, 65 percent market and 5 percent affordable housing. In March, the City of Sydney countered with an alternative scheme which would see 50 percent social housing, 20 percent affordable housing and 30 percent private market housing. Last Monday the City of Sydney council voted unanimously in favour of a motion put forward by Councillor Philip Thalis supporting the campaign. The campaign
Tanya Plibersek, Member for Sydney, has backed the campaign. Photo:Redfern Waterloo Aboriginal Affordable Housing Campaign
has also been backed by NSW and federal parliamentarians including NSW member for Newtown Jenny Leong and federal member for Sydney Tanya Plibersek. As of printing, the petition had reached over 8000 signatures of the 10,000 signature target.
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CARRY ON CORONA!
t may not have been the most successful movie franchise of all time but it was certainly the most prolific with a staggering 31 productions between 1958 and 1992. Featuring titles such as Carry On Camping, Carry On Screaming and the geographically specific Carry On Up The Khyber, the much loved genre depended heavily on a mix of tits and bums, double entendre, in your face sight gags and what has been described as “low level bigotry.” In our more enlightened world, that formula would not be well received but perhaps there is room for at least one final Carry On excursion – get ready for Carry On Corona! The cavalier style disregard and misinformation that led to Trump and his first lady being hospitalised provides the germ of the script and the cast of international characters (with blood on their hands) is boundless. Let’s borrow shamefully from another Carry On classic, a movie that was guaranteed to ‘fracture your funnybone’. Like Carry On Nurse, Carry On Corona is set in a hospital and plays out the well worn doctor patient scenario. In this case the star patients are the POTUS, Donald Trump, the UK’s Boris Johnson and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro – three populist leaders who all downplayed the seriousness of the virus when it first appeared. Ironically they have all now contracted COVID and have been dispatched to an international
medical centre in the Bahamas that specialises in the treatment of celebrities and high ranking politicians. There’s a great supporting cast of course, with the feisty Stormy Daniels gracefully accepting the role of head nurse and rapper Kanye West as the mysterious West Indian doctor with a miracle voodoo cure for the virus. Housed in adjoining beds the three world leaders soon find themselves competing for the ‘bedside manner’ of the voluptuous Nurse Stormy. When she serves them all mushroom soup for the evening meal, Trump takes it as a personal insult to his genitalia and demands she send out for a Whopper.
After a few days in the COVID ward, all three show signs of deterioration and respirators are called for. Unfortunately nitrous oxide, not oxygen, is pumped into the system and Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro erupt into a orgy of uncontrollable laughter. Trump laughs so much that his daily dose of hydroxychloroquine and White King bleach reacts with his spray on tan and turns his face totally black. Johnson grabs a banjo and joins him in a impromptu version of Mammy from the Black & White Minstrels and Dr West is called to add some back up beatboxing. The next day, the situation has got even worse and George Pell is flown in to administer the last rights. As a homage to the 1970’s Carry On Loving, Dr West is back with the original cat from that movie, the strangely named ‘Cooking Fat’. It’s just an excuse to ramp up the double entendre and when Trump sees the cat he makes a sudden grab for the pussy. Threatening at first to perform a voodoo ritual with the unfortunate feline, Dr West soon unveils his miracle cure and Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro are required to eat 20 foolscap size pages of their own tweets, soaked in castor oil and Pepto Bismol. Yes folks and Fox News, they are forced to eat their own words. Naturally I am not going to do a spoiler and give away the ending of what could be the movie hit of 2021. All I can say is that Nurse Daniels and Cooking Fat definitely survive to star in a possible sequel. Carry On Corona – coming to a pandemic near you! CITY HUB 8 OCTOBER 2020
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TYDE: Establishing a new band is challenging at the best of times, let alone in 2020 (See p.7)
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vocado Smash, a dynamic musical trio, performed an exciting children’s show at Riverside Theatres Parramatta as part of their annual Spot On Children’s Festival. There was also a digital show that streamed live as part of Riverside Theatres Digital program. The show proved to be the ideal school holidays event, putting a smile on every child in the audience’s face and engaging both children and adults with every single tune. My younger sister, who viewed the show with me, couldn’t stop talking about it for days after,
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which gives a pretty good indication as to the quality of Avocado Smash’s performance. The show was full of intelligent and diverse ideas delivered through fun and exciting music, with my sister’s personal favourite song being the Chilli Song. Avocado Smash, as well as Riverside Theatres, deserves to be commended for organising and putting on a great show as the perfect way to kick off spring. (RBa)
SEYMOUR CENTRE REOPENS
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s the Sydney theatre scene starts to emerge from iso, Seymour Centre is reopening in partnership with Griffin Theatre. Seymour, the long-cherished Chippendale venue associated with the University of Sydney, has a well-earned reputation for presenting challenging and unusual works. Its new relationship with Griffin Theatre marks its place as part of the arts community in these unusual times. “Griffin is dedicated to the development and production of new Australian theatre and this seems a perfect fit for this moment, reminding us of who we are in this great time of uncertainty,” said Timothy Jones, Seymour’s Artistic Director. The remaining 2020 Griffin season will be staged at Seymour. In addition, Seymour is hosting children and youth related performances through December, and is anticipating the 2021 season. “In March, we would never have anticipated we would be completely closed until September. It’s incredible
and unprecedented when you stop and think about it. Eight weeks ago, we had to make the tough decision to completely shelve the rest of our 2020 curated program, and that was quite devastating,” said Jones. “However, now looking at the positives, we are so pleased that the Seymour’s generous foyer and theatre spaces enable us to say a cautious and suitably COVID-safe, welcome back.” (OA) For the upcoming theatre program and its COVID-safe protocols head to: www.seymourcentre.com
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BOWER REUSE & REPAIR CENTRES - ART FROM TRASH
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ower Reuse And Repair Centre has partnered with the Inner West Council to host the second year of its Art From Trash exhibition to inspire people to think about reusing discarded materials to create incredible artworks, and the potential value of what we throw away, to reduce waste sent to the landfill. With 70 artworks displayed from more than 30 artists; ranging from paintings, sculptures to weavings to assemblage
all created from reused materials. Message On A Bottle created by Julia Strykowski is announced the winner of this year’s People’s Choice and $500 cash prize. Her work made from plastic milk bottles, lids, toys, plastic waste, glue and fairy lights, brings light to plastic pollution and the threat of discarded plastics ending up in our waterways, soils and ultimately into our food chain.
Through the pieces Art From Trash urges everyone to rethink issues of sustainability and overconsumption. Once you’ve explored Bower Reuse And Repair Centres at Parramatta, be sure to check out more of Art From Trash at 107 Redfern. (KC) Oct 2-11. Shop 1/10 Hunter St, Parramatta. 6pm. Oct 16-25. 107 Redfern St, Redfern. Info: www.bower.org.au
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Upon returning to Queensland the trio spent their quarantine period together in the one house working on music BY JAMIE APPS and helping each other get through it emotionally and mentally. stablishing a new band is “It was a little disheartening. We had challenging at the best of times but all of these big ideas and wanted to for new trio Tyde 2020 has dropped a jam but it was hard to get motivated few extra hurdles in their path. or feel like we had something to work Consisting of singer/guitarist Ella towards because we simply didn’t Belfanti, her sister Zoey Belfanti on know when things were going to open bass and drummer Josh Garnett Tyde back up,” explained Ella. is a brand new independent group which ebbs and flows between altAs another added challenge Tyde’s rock, folk, and funk. Initially coming debut single, Skin On Skin, proved to together after a chance meeting be an interesting experience to work between Josh and Ella at a music on together because it has such a festival (they both have successful personal and initiate story behind it. music careers separately outside As Ella explained the song is about of Tyde) the group quickly felt like a her experience with a one-night stand, the COVID-19 restrictions came into natural fit and progressed to a more and as such the recording process was play. During our conversation Josh formal structure. At first Zoey wasn’t “slightly strange” when working on the recalled one moment in particular part of the group but after teaching song with both her younger sister and that highlighted just how swiftly the herself guitar Ella realised that Zoey bandmate/boyfriend. changes came in. could easily learn bass and brought All three members of the group got “I played a gig in Melbourne at Open her into the fold. past the uneasiness of that process As Josh explained to City Hub after first Studio with Fat Picnic [Josh’s other though and all love the song. project] then exactly a month later I hearing Ella perform as a solo artist As restrictions now begin to ease Tyde was back there with Tyde and it was on the festival when they first met he are excited to return to Sydney as soon completely different. There were no simply had to work with her. as possible. cars driving past. There was nobody “After hearing Ella’s music I “One of the best gigs that we’ve played immediately fell in love and was ready walking around on the street.” so far was in Sydney at Lazybones to do whatever it took to work with her. Following that show in Melbourne the group were scheduled to spend a week Lounge. So we really want to come Even if that meant she wanted me to back to Sydney and play some more in Sydney, visiting Ella and Zoey’s just be a session musician to record family and playing shows, but that was shows there. We absolutely love it,” songs with.” said Ella. also cut short due to the imminent After forming at the beginning of the Follow Tyde on Instagram at closure of the border between New year Tyde managed to squeeze in a instagram.com/tyde_band South Wales and Queensland. brief debut tour before the brunt of
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onsters arriving from space is certainly not a new story, but Russian sci-fi thriller Sputnik places a chilling new twist on the genre. Set in 1983 during the Cold War Sputnik opens with two cosmonauts preparing to return from space before their journey inexplicably derails as they are joined by a mysterious stowaway. Following their recently only on cosmonaut survives, but he is now a different man than the one who first arrived in space. As Sputnik progresses we begin to learn how and
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hey’re funny. They’re sexy. Long-time Sydney underground faves Six Quick Chicks perform in your lounge room with their rollercoaster hour of cabaret comedy, quick fire repartee, a host of sassy characters and the odd song! From the comfort of your sofa, watch these outlandish ladies of the cabaret strut their wares with a heady mix of the high-brow and low, a scoop of the surreal with just a dash of fart joke, and a generous serving of sultry sophistication. A collective of Sydney based women artists from a wide range of performance backgrounds including stand-up comedy, performance art, theatre, rock’n’roll, cabaret and circus, the Chicks each bring their own flavour to this hilarious table but are united in their extravagant imaginations. Absurd, outlandish, witty and bold; each act at less than 10 minutes, these hot, hilarious Quick Chicks always leave their audiences wanting more. Oct 10. Online streaming. $10. Tickets & Info: www.suss.net.au
why cosmonaut Konstantin (Pyotr Fyodorov) is acting strangely. It is at this point that psychologist Tatyana Klimova (Oksana Akinshina) arrives at a mysterious military facility to aid Konstantin. With its symbiotic/parasitic notion of an alien monster this film feels very much like Venom would have had Marvel taken a much darker tone with their film. Sputnik is clearly inspired by the genre defining Alien by Ridley Scott. However, rather than placing the alien as the central monster of the film Sputnik instead places human cruelty and immorality as the true evil. (JA) WWW CITY HUB 8 OCTOBER 2020
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THE INDIE IS BACK IN
THE INNER WEST! The print edition of the Inner West Independent will return to the streets of the Inner West this November offering local businesses the opportunity to target residents in this affluent inner city area. When News Corp’s recently closed its local news publication in the Inner West, people who live, work and play in the area lost a vital source of free information. The Inner West Independent will fill this void. From 2009 to 2014 the Inner West Independent was distributed in the formal Local Government area of Leichhardt Council. Since then the publication has continued online. Starting November the Inner West Independent will be letterbox dropped in the Balmain Peninsula, Leichhardt, Lilyfield, Annandale and bulk dropped to busy retail precincts around the Inner West including Newtown, Enmore, Petersham, Lewisham, Marrickville, Ashfield, Pyrmont, Ultimo and Glebe.
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