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Jacinda Ardern never expected to have to pick her walkout music (opens the original)
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When Jacinda Ardern decided to run for prime minister of Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2017, she knew there would be a lot of surprising moments. But there was one she hadn't anticipated. "One of the things that you don't prepare for is when they come and say, 'What song would you like when you walk onto a stage?'" Ardern says. Things were moving fast for the young politician, 37 at the time. An MP since 2008, she won a by-election in Mount Albert, Auckland, in February 2017, and became deputy leader
Darren Hayes became famous overnight — 'but there were secrets' (opens the original)
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Darren Hayes learned to sing by listening to his mother. "She had the most beautiful, melodic voice and I would mimic her," the musician and former frontman of Savage Garden says. "A lot of my singing education came from mimicking people, but she was the first person I ripped off." Hayes's mother, Judy, would never have admitted her influence. "She wouldn't think that she taught me how to sing because she had such a low self-esteem," he says on Take 5 With Zan Rowe. Hayes grew up in a home racke
The delicate (and smoky) art of painting with fire (opens the original)
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Emily Rose Hastie's journey into the fire-based art form of pyrography started with a cheese board. A high school teacher from the Gold Coast, Hastie had recently rekindled her childhood love of drawing through a local art collective, focusing on charcoal and toned paper. Then her mum asked if she could draw a mouse on a new wooden cheese platter she'd bought. But drawing or painting the design would mean the board couldn't be washed. "I originally used a laser printer at the school to just tria
What happens when the world's largest online retail warehouse moves to town (opens the original)
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In the largely forgotten town of Burra Creek, something hums all night. This regional area has long surfed the peaks and troughs wrought by industry moving in, promising big, and then moving out once a profit has been made. Now, the latest has arrived. The Warehouse that sits on the edge of town is the world's largest online retail distribution centre. It's also the perfect representation of unease at the centre of the new Australian play coming to Malthouse Theatre in Naarm/Melbourne, Break of
From bedrotting to erotic art by Lucy Liu, these artists know about being lonely (opens the original)
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In 2018, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to appoint a Minister for Loneliness. And while this prompted numerous headlines and think pieces around the world — redoubled when Japan followed suit in 2021 — the move makes perfect sense to Myles Russell-Cook. "I get lonely; I think everyone does," says the artistic director and CEO of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Naarm/Melbourne. "We've got a loneliness epidemic, but there's been a strange resistance o
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