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Barry Divola

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 14, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Age
Top 10K sites
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Jul 17, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Barry Divola

    My obsession with Japan’s famed robot led me to this great city (opens the original)

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    My fascination with Japan started as a child, and it came exclusively through television. The Samurai and Phantom Agents featured hilariously terrible dubbed English, but introduced Australian kids to ninja and samurai. Then there were cartoons such as Astro Boy, Prince Planet and Marine Boy, with big-eyed characters, simple animation and goodies-versus-baddies plots. One cartoon has stuck with me to this day. Gigantor was about a giant blue robot who fought evil, but he was controlled by a 12-y

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Barry Divola

    The true story behind the record label that defined pop in the ’80s and ’90s (opens the original)

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    Siân Pattenden still remembers her life flashing before her eyes. This was back in the early ’90s, when she was a young writer for English pop magazine Smash Hits. She was doing a story on boy band East 17. The bad boy of the group, Brian Harvey, realised he had to move his car, as it was illegally parked, and encouraged Pattenden to accompany him. He proceeded to put the pedal to the metal and the car careened down the street at dangerously high speed, Pattenden hanging on for dear life, vision

  3. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Barry Divola

    Seven million books later, Garth Nix still has a back-up plan (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Picture this. It’s Canberra in the early 1970s. It’s lunchtime on a school day, and in the middle of the sports oval a group of kids is being led by one of their own on an adventure. The boy asks them to imagine they’re entering a pyramid in Egypt. As they explore deeper and deeper inside, he describes in detail everything they’re seeing around them. And then, all of a sudden, something emerges fr

  4. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Barry Divola

    The revolutionary music machine invented by an ‘audio mad scientist’ and Tame Impala frontman (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. In early 2020, Tom Cosm noticed something strange. He started getting a series of Instagram messages from people he didn’t know. Many of them mentioned someone named Kevin. Cosm had no idea who or what they were talking about. He thought he may have been pranked. Then his partner at the time did a bit of digging and discovered that another Instagram account with millions of followers had started f

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