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Lindsay identifies with and is committed to the rainbow community, is a food scientist with broad experience in corporate governance, industry research and development and for the past 15 years has lived and run a forensic analysis consultancy in Sydney.

With his diverse background and willingness to stand up against injustice, Lindsay brings a set of skills and commitment to council that will make Sydney a fairer and more inclusive city.

De lives and works in Sydney. Sydney is her city. Glebe is her community.

De has been the creative director of advertising agencies in Australia and overseas, head of the Billy Blue School of Graphic Design, an integral part of a community group that saved Hunters Hill High School and policy and media advisor to a Greens Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney.

Lindsay grew up on a farm near the regional city of Albury.

When the big banks attempted to foreclose on his family business he took them on - and won.

Lindsay identifies with and is committed to the rainbow community, is a food scientist with broad experience in corporate governance, industry research and development and for the past 15 years has lived and run a forensic analysis consultancy in Sydney.

While she believes that Sydney is already a great city, it is fast turning into a selective one where only those with With his diverse background and willingness to stand money and privilege can afford to call it home. De wants up against injustice, Lindsay brings a set of skills and commitment to council that will make Sydney a fairer and to turn this around. more inclusive city.

De lives and works in Sydney. Sydney is her city. Glebe is her community.

De has been the creative director of advertising agencies in Australia and overseas, head of the Billy Blue School of Graphic Design, an integral part of a community group that saved Hunters Hill High School and policy and media advisor to a Greens Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney.

While she believes that Sydney is already a great city, it is fast turning into a selective one where only those with money and privilege can afford to call it home. De wants to turn this around.

A Vision for Graphic Design, an integral part of a community group the City of Sydney that saved Hunters Hill High School and policy and media

Many of us who live in Sydney remember a time when this really was a global city – full of colour, character, exciting days and vibrant nights – a city for all of us. But Sydney is becoming a town only for the rich. A city that many travel to for work but few can afford to live in.

Many of us who live in Sydney remember a time when this really was a global city – full of colour, character, exciting days and vibrant nights – a city for all of us. But Sydney is becoming a town only for the rich. A city that many travel to for work but few can afford to live in.

The measure of a successful city should be one where people can both live and work – on this measure Sydney is failing. The coming local council election is an opportunity for Sydney-siders to vote for the city they believe in.

It is an opportunity to say to yes to making Sydney a city for all of us.

The measure of a successful city should be one where people can both live and work – on this measure Sydney is failing. The coming local council election is an opportunity for Sydney-siders to vote for the city they believe in.

It is an opportunity to say to yes to making Sydney a city for all of us.

Elections should be about a vision for the future. This is ours.

We hope that you share it.

Elections should be about a vision for the future. This is ours.

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Putting WestConnex cart before horse

BY WENDY BACON As Janet Dandy-Ward was on her way to a yoga class in St Peters this week, she was shocked to see WestConnex workers chopping down trees on Silver Street.

Residents were expecting trees on the street which borders St Peters Public School to be removed. However they were expecting an arborist to be on site to assess whether some bottle brush trees could be saved.

Janet’s son will attend the school next year.

On its other side, children cross Campbell Street to get to the school. Here residents have already been evicted, leaving perfectly sound houses empty for over a year. Sydney Motorway Corporation is refusing to plan for a School Safety Zone on the road because it would slow traffic.

In response to residents’ loud complaints and calls to Sydney Motorway Corporation, work stopped. Workers then built a metal cage around where Ms Dandy-Ward was standing. Eventually after police were called, she agreed to leave.

This work is part of preliminary work that is installing high voltage power lines designed for the massive St Peters Interchange for which an unfiltered pollution stack will be built close to Ms Dandy-Ward’s home.

Despite strong objections by the City of Sydney, councils in the inner west and 12,000 other submissions objecting to the proposal, the new M5 was approved in April. Many important issues have been left to the ‘detailed design stage.’

Major construction cannot go ahead until more detailed technical plans are approved.

The NSW Planning Department confirmed last week that no approval has yet been given for construction to begin at St Peters or nearby Arncliffe.

In response to written questions, the Inner West Council CEO Richard Pearson told this reporter that a draft detailed construction plan was received in June but “as the documentation was incomplete,” the WestCONnex Joint Venture was “requested to provide all relevant information.

Updated documents have not yet been received.”

Council will provide comments after the plan is

Protestors on Sunday. Photo: Martin Brady

received. Janet Dandy Ward and other members of the WestCONnex Action Group have been fighting a long and exhausting battle against the motorway since 2013. But although massive devastation can been seen at Granville in Sydney’s West and Haberfield, the ever-growing motorway project is still only in its infancy.

The challenge is to transform this anger into an even stronger campaign. This was one aim of a WestConnex Action Group meeting held last Sunday in Sydney Park, parts of which will be taken over by WestConnex.

The action began with a tree at the corner of Euston and Sydney Park Roads in Alexandria being wrapped with a blue ribbon by Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore. (Campaigners have tied similar blue ribbons on hundreds of trees along the WestConnex route.) According to a rough count by City Hub, more than one thousand trees are slated for destruction in Sydney Park alone. 1400 more will be destroyed for New M5 construction sites if the project continues. More than 400 people then packed into the Sydney Park Pavilion, the gate of which is less than 100 metres from Euston Road, which

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will become a six lane highway carrying an extra 52,000 cars a day if the Westconnex New M5 goes ahead. Not surprisingly, levels of deadly fine particulate pollution will rise in nearby parkland and local streets.

While the amount of land excised from the park will be restricted to its southern corners and road edges, the noise and pollution generated by a motorway would squeeze the entire well-used park inwards.

Nick Bryant-Smith from Inner West band HorrowShow began the meeting with a rap poem including the words: “Can you feel the change in the air? I never could and then I took a second look and now I see it everywhere. Today moving so fast becomes yesteryear. And If you can’t keep up then you disappear? “ Greens MLC Mehreen Faruqi summed up the views of many when she told the meeting, “According to the Baird government, it’s good for us that traffic will disappear down a tunnel and leave the streets relatively free, but they forget to mention that traffic going into a tunnel has to come out somewhere and the 1000s of cars that come out of the interchange here and will

be funnelled into already congested local streets.

With the Green Square development going ahead population is already set to increase around here and not many plans to improve public transport.

We are going to face traffic chaos and literally a standstill.”

Janet Dandy-Ward spoke of the “ties once broken and the loss of community” that could cause “emotional and psychological damage to those leaving and those left behind.” “I’m one of those left behind! But we know that this is just the start of this in St Peters and we know that the destruction that has happened in Haberfield, Kingsgrove, Ashfield, Strathfield, Concord, Granville …….. is coming this way unless we halt this project and stop the devastation, “ she said.

Ms Dandy-Ward is an immigrant to Australia from the UK. But ironically, she already knows far more about our city than chief commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, Lucy Turnbull who when interviewed on ABC 702 this week said she was unaware of the largescale destruction of houses for the WestConnex motorway in the heritage suburb of Haberfield.

This was an astonishing admission from a woman whose job involves co-ordinating district plans for the entire city.

Turnbull began her life in the wealthiest part of Sydney’s Eastern suburbs, was educated in elite schools and still lives in the exclusive enclave of Point Piper with its glistening harbour views. Her tone was detached as she spoke of Westconnex going ahead. Perhaps it’s time for Ms Turnbull to visit Granville in Sydney’s West to find out what it is like to live beside an expanding motorway towering over your home or Haberfield in the Inner West where streets of well-crafted homes have been turned into rubble.

She might also bring her public transport loving husband PM Malcolm Turnbull who never even replied to hundreds of citizens who wrote to him about Westconnex. An invitation from the Westconnex Action Group is on the way.

Wendy Bacon is a supporter of the WestConnex Action Group

A tunnel too far for Oxford Street

BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS .

Sydney Matters Lord Mayoral candidate Angela Vithoulkas has a plan which she thinks will solve Oxford Street’s problems once and for all.

“We know what the area needs, it needs bold strong plan,” Angela Vithoulkas told City Hub. Along with Clr Edward Mandla, who has joined the Sydney Matters Team, the team is calling for a “cut and cover” tunnel that would start at College St near Hyde Park and run up the street until it reached Syd Einfield Drive.

Vithoulkas said traffic was the common problem on Oxford Street, and the tunnel would go some way towards addressing that.

“It affects everybody in the local community, including both residents and business owners and it is stopping outside people from attending the local business.”

Clr Mandla said that the state government could be enticed to come on board if local businesses and residents showed the government it was a plan they wanted for their area.

“We know a little bit about government lobbying, when the people have a plan for an area, and it is splashed in the newspapers, and there is a movement, it is amazing how quickly the state government could buckle to that,” Clr Mandla said.

President of the Darlinghurst Business Partnership said it was great that people in council were taking an interest in the area. He

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said it was important that the council was open to new, bold ideas.

He said in his experience the council bureaucracy could not deliver for local businesses. Instead, he called on the council to deliver more funds for business support because of the millions of dollars in rates local businesses put in council coffers.

“There is scope for the City spending more money, I would be against them doing it internally, the last thing we need is more bureaucracy.”

Mr Gyory said the tunnel could have the potential to have the unwanted effect of taking more people off the street. He said foot traffic had been made worse by the introduction of

the lockout in the area. This he said could further decrease the levels of foot traffic in the area.

“We like people being on the street. The risk of people being under the street, is taking people out of the area. The biggest issue isn’t parking, even though everyone has a story about how they couldn’t find a park.”

He said that some of the existing council owned buildings had been left derelict.

“A lot of them have been empty for years, this is an opportunity to have some retail, some affordable housing, some apartments up the top maybe five levels, make sure those apartments have parking, and you can rejuvenate that area.” city hub 18 AUGUST 2016

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Tree falls on deaf ears in Erskineville public housing estate

BY JORDAN FERMANIS A tree that fell at an Erskineville public housing estate on Friday August 12 is symbolic of the lack of assistance given to residents of the estate by government bodies.

A long term resident who has been living at the estate since August 1992 who wishes to remain anonymous has told City Hub that when she alerted Housing NSW that the tree was about to fall she felt as though no one cared.

“The lady on the phone said, ‘It doesn’t sounds like a big tree to me.’ Even though I had described it as over two stories.”

“We just didn’t get any response from FACs (Family and Community Services). I have not had any response from them,” the resident said.

The housing estate is located on Swanston St in Erskineville and dates back to pre-World War II. Some residents of the estate have been living there since then.

The resident said that the treatment she has received from FACS is not uncommon, citing that communication between residents at the housing estate and government agencies is infrequent.

“This is very usual, we are always getting shabby treatment. They treat us like we are a nuisance. We really believe that they want to sell it to developers,” the resident said.

The City of Sydney Council told City Hub that they had advised Housing NSW twice that one tree was in “urgent need of removal” but that the council was powerless to act as the tree was located on private land.

If a tree falls in FACS property, does anyone hear it? Source: supplied.

“The City approved the removal of two trees within the Housing NSW estate.

City officers advised Housing NSW twice that one tree in particular was in urgent need of removal.

Although the City is the consent authority for the removal of trees on private land, the City does not remove trees unless they are on public land,” a City of Sydney spokesperson said.

The resident has flagged concerns that FACS knowingly endangered those living on the estate with failure to act until the final hour when the tree did in fact fall.

In a statement given to City Hub a FACS spokesperson said that they were aware of a fallen tree but failed

to mention the numerous attempts the resident had made to have the tree removed before it fell.

“The Department of Family and Community Services is aware of the fallen tree at 5 Swanston Street and has repaired the damaged wires and guttering.

Additional arrangements have been made to have the tree removed by COB Friday, 12 August. The tree poses no safety risks to residents,” a FACS spokesperson said.

With similarly inadequate community consultation seen in the Millers Point estate sell off as well as the Waterloo public housing debacle, this latest incident shows that residents of public housing are not having their voices heard.

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Waterloo class action

Merivale saves The Alex

BY LUCAS BAIRD Waterloo public housing residents are preparing to take class action against the state government in what could be a landmark case as the community digs their heels in.

Waterloo Public Housing Action Group (WPHAG) has told City Hub that several residents have been subject to “unlivable” conditions in the dwellings due to poor maintenance for several years.

WPHAG claim that they felt they were driven to action due to the “cloudy” information afforded to them by the state government regarding the Waterloo redevelopment project which will see them displaced from their current dwellings.

“We are running with a petition now and also the threat of a class action of failing the duty of care, a financial claim on some of these people through their [the state government’s] maintenance [of the dwellings],” said WPHAG Chairman, Richard Weekes.

“They haven’t been able to use a percentage of their directed premises and under the act, if you rent a four bedroom house and one of the bedrooms is unlivable… you have the right to claim 25 per cent of your rent back.”

Mr Weekes said that he has the case prepared to present to the Civil Administrative Tribunal and said the case could be a Pandora’s Box. The possibility of a class action comes at a time when many in the communityis unsure about thei future of social housing in the suburb.

BY JORDAN FERMANIS Last week’s announcement that the Alexandria Hotel had been bought by Merivale has secured the future of the pub.

A year and a half ago it could have been a very different story, with the Centennial Property Group purchasing the pub with hopes to develop the site into an apartment block.

The Merivale buyout came after a Land and Environment conciliation was called off when Sydney Trains blocked the bid as it was building over railway lines underground. The stalled proceedings opened the floor for Merivale to step in and buy the pub for what the AFR reported was Source: supplied $10m. Mr Noblet said that overall reaction for the Save the Alex group has been positive.

“We are really happy. All the local residents are really quite pleased. A couple of weeks ago it seemed like an impossible outcome, we are just happy that somebody bought it.”

The news has also attracted praise from the Lord Mayor who said that the Merivale purchase is a big win for the community.

“When plans to destroy The Alex were first put on public exhibition, there was a real groundswell of support for its conservation. This is a huge win for the community, and for City staff who were in court fighting for the 80-year-old building to be heritagelisted,” the Lord Mayor said.

Mr Noblet said that there had been some elements of the community that have expressed concern over

REDWatch community group is also scrutinising the state government about the redevelopments as they seek to get answers from UrbanGrowth NSW. REDWatch collected questions from a community meeting in May and put them to the government agency in an attempt to ease the minds of the community.

However, REDWatch convenor, Geoff Turnbull, told City Hub that none of those questions had been answered and claimed that residents felt “burned” by the vague information that had been given by the government.

“The interactions with Land and Housing Corp[oration], Housing NSW and UrbanGrowth really aren’t throwing any light onto what the government is proposing for Waterloo.”

“Six months after the event [Waterloo Metro Announcement]... They [residents] don’t know when they are moving, what they are doing, and there is no clarity around how the government is going to do this with a whole pile of issues.”

A spokesperson for UrbanGrowth NSW said that they had already answered a number of the communities questions when they attended a REDWatch meeting in May and said there will consultation with the community throughout the master planning process.

The spokesperson also said that they would be happy to attend another community meeting to further answer questions if asked

by REDWatch.

Merivale moving into the area but that he was sure Justin Hemmes has the right intentions for the pub.

“I’ve spoken to Justin and read what he’s said in the paper, he’s not silly. He knows his market, he seems very genuine about retaining it as a regular pub and keeping the backyard family focused and casual.”

A testament to Merivale’s commitment to the community is Mr Hemmes unusual decision to open the renovation of the pub up to local creatives, asking them to submit ideas for art and structures for the new Alex.

“I’ve never seen him or anyone else buy a pub and actually solicit public contributions, that’s pretty rare, hopefully he’s not paying lip service to what people want to hear but it seems pretty genuine,” Mr Noblet said.

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BY LAWRENCE GIBBONS Just two hours west of the Blue Mountains, Mudgee is a world away from the hustle and bustle of Sydney. Nestled in lush rolling hills, the region is home to more than one hundred vineyards. With over 35 family owned and operated cellar doors run by warm and welcoming locals, Mudgee is the perfect place to indulge your senses.

Logan Wines sits at the gateway to Mudgee. It’s the first winery you will come upon as you enter town and is an excellent place to start your wine tasting tour with panoramic views of sloping vineyards. Further up the Castlereagh Highway, Vinefera Wines offers Spanish grape varietals and excellent organic Tempranillo and Grenache wines. Short Sheep Micro Winery provides a preservative free range of wines and the opportunity to visit a flock of short sheep, grazing the grass sustainably.

Ten minutes outside of town, Gooree Park is worth the excursion. The region’s largest vineyard has an excellent cellar door and also operates a world class stud farm where many thoroughbreds have been raised and trained.

Visit the Moothi Estate at dusk. Wine tasting is all the more spectacular while the sun sets over the ranges and the kangaroos hop through the vineyards.

The Robert Stein Winery and Vineyard is a Mudgee institution. Family owned for three generations, the Steins have been making award winning wines for forty years. Overlooking the family vineyards, the Pipeclay 6

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Pumphouse serves a five star menu, which is entirely sourced locally with many of the ingredients are grown on the property.

Mudgee has no shortage of high quality restaurants worth visiting. Alby and Esthers charming courtyard is a relaxing place for breakfast.

The Wineglass Bar and Grill is set in a historic brick building that dates back to the 1850s and offers a gourmet selection of sumptuous meals made with local ingredients. For a tasty pub meal, the recently refurbished Oriental Hotel (owned and operated by the local Mayor Des Kennedy) has an excellent menu.

For delicious dim sims take a lovely drive south of Mudgee to nearby Rylestone and enjoy a range of tasty dumplings served in a historic brick building complete with a gift shop. Or drive north of Mudgee to the quaint and historic town of Gulgong, which is world renowned for its ceramic artisans. While there treat yourself to an authentic Aussie pub meal at the historic Prince of Wales Hotel.

Stay at the Mudgee Getaway Cottages for character filled accommodation (complete with rabbits to pet and a resident ostrich) in the centre of Mudgee. From the cottages you can easily stroll to the town’s chic boutiques and stop in at an excellent micro-Brewery, the Mudgee Brewing Company , if you want something other than wine.

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All leather products at Annadale interiors are either aniline and semi aniline leather, meaning that they’re safe for children to be around, and aren’t choked with plastic coatings which are practically poision.

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Next week an Italian leather lounge with Bluetooth connectivity to due to arrive in the store.

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Labor says City needs targets for green space

BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS Labor has a bold plan to increase the greenspace in the City of Sydney by as much as six per cent because “we desperately need places for people to play”.

Labor Councillor Linda Scott told City Hub that the council needed to do more to make sure the needs of residents as well as workers were met in the City.

She said too little had been done in the previous twelve years to ensure that the City had adequate green space.

Within the City of Sydney LGA, there are 14 sporting fields to accommodate approximately 200,000 people.

Scott said businesses in the CBD were crying out for more sporting fields.

“Business is telling us they don’t have anywhere for their staff to play at lunchtime, we need ovals just as much in the inner city as we do in Newtown, Redfern and Roseberry,” she said.

Scott said that Labor’s target of 20 per cent by 2025 would ensure that Sydney remained a great place to live and work into the future.

“There are no free sporting fields this summer, there are no places to play sport, so we’re committing to this green space target to ensure the creation of green space and specifically the creation of new sporting fields.”

Exactly how one goes about creating more green space is another question. According to Scott, the City needs to advocate for it more when negotiating big developments in the City.

Linda Scott. Source: supplied

“We can see developments where we have ovals on the roof. We don’t just have to use the ground space.”

She said school ovals and parks could be used more efficient.

“We can look to better sharing and collaborative arrangements with existing ovals, like the ovals in our primary schools or high schools,” she said.

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FEATURE

The Art of Feminism

BY RITA BRATOVICH For much of art history the role of women has been relegated to that of muse, model or mistress.As in many other aspects of society, female expression was suppressed, dismissed or ridiculed. It has taken successive waves of feminism for women to even be allowed to participate, let alone be recognised in the art world.

An exhibition of short films and animation made by Australian women during the 1990’s aims at highlighting a widely un-acknowledged period of feminist action.

Curated by Dr Jacqueline Millner (Dean at Sydney College of the Arts), Jane Schneider (film-maker) and Deborah Szapiro (animator), FemFlix is a walk-through installation of variously sized screens displaying short films and animations running in loop.

The exhibition encourages visitors to experience the films in relation to each other.The through-line, of course, is feminism.

“There definitely was a feminist groundswell during that decade and it took particular forms,” said Millner.

The 90’s was the estuary for activist feminism, emerging technologies, post-punk, cultural patriotism and indigenous pride that all flowed through from the 1970’s and ’80’s. “…During the ’90’s as well, there was quite a shift in the way that feminism was engaging with notions of queerness,” added Millner.

Queerness allowed for fluid, hybrid gender ideas.

While earlier feminism attempted to prescribe an essential concept of what it was to be a woman, the feminism of the ’90’s, often seen as the “third wave”, challenged the notion that all women were the same. The democratisation and autonomy afforded by new media technology allowed that notion to be artistically explored by women.

The films selected for this exhibition are important, not just because they were made by women or feature women, but because they are imbued with female ideology.

Dr Jacqueline Millner (Dean at Sydney College of the Arts) and Deborah Szapiro (animator) at FemFlix.

Photo: Chris Peken

“Instead of the very serious, political… there was a real playfulness and real irreverence that characterised this time,” stressed Millner.

Animation is an area of filmmaking that has been and continues to be male dominated, although Deborah Szapiro argues that women are strongest in Australia’s independent sector.

But while the independent side is not gendered, it also “doesn’t make money”. On the other hand “the industrialised side and commercial side which does make money [is] very, very gendered”.

As a teacher, Szapiro is frustrated with the endemic gender bias in institutions and tutorial aids, especially in the instruction of 3D and CG animation.

“If you [look] online at all the tutorials for Maya [3D animation software] all the women have big breasts, they have pneumatic crotches where the

jeans are actually being sucked up…men are all muscly with guns…” explained Szapiro.

The types of assignments given to all students, arguably would appeal more to males “even at top universities [around the world]…”

Asked about the animated shorts selected for FemFlix, Szapiro explains that it was the content of these films that most influenced her: “For me…it was so amazing in animation to see women’s lives put front and centre. To see the domestic able to be talked about in a way that was very powerfully political.”

Women continue to explore and articulate feminism in their art, but it is widely ineffectual unless it can be exposed to a broad, diverse audience. One of the biggest obstacles is that there aren’t enough women in curatorial and promotional spaces. In an attempt to

redress that, four women with different skills and similar ambition have created an entity called The Ladies Network. Its inception was as an art exhibition curated by co-founder Lara Vrkic for young female artists.

The overwhelming success of that exhibition suggested a need and a business opportunity which was taken up

by Vrkic (Curator),Arabella Peterson (Editor-in-chief), Emmeline Peterson (Project Manager) and Jess Mincher (PR).Their focus is less on creating exhibitions now, and more on discovering, endorsing, encouraging and assisting women in all forms of art including film, music, literature and visual arts. At the moment their activity is mostly web-based, but they aim to become a multi-platform agency that provides a full range of services and resources for women in the arts.

“We want to create a landscape of equality in the creative industry…we really do want to change things,” explained Arabella Peterson. She believes that until there is an even playing field between the genders, there needs to be “women only” spaces and quotas.

Female creatives repeatedly find themselves knocking on the doors of male personnel in administrative and promotional roles, not being heard and not being let in. The Ladies Network has put itself on the other side of that door.

“I think that by us infiltrating these positions of power – not just the artists being women but also the gallery owners, the curators, you know, the decision makers…it’s the only way that women are going to forge their place,” suggested Peterson.

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For students in any creative field it is incredibly important to be given the opportunity to apply what they have learnt in the classroom to a practical environment – this is where the first Australian production of the recently revised Anna Karenina by British playwright Helen Edmundson comes into play.

As part of the 2016 Bachelor of Performance

at The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) 19 final year students have been given the chance to collaborate in an immersive development and rehearsal process. During the program the students have taken over the creative and production roles whilst also preparing to perform in the play, as they have done this they have been mentored by a number of professionals from the industry.

As director and the Head of AIM Dramatic Arts, Peta Downes explained: “This production presents a huge creative challenge but enables our final year students to work simultaneously as actors, creators and producers guided by experienced theatre-makers as their professional mentors and empowers them to deliver a production as a professional theatre company would.”

The play, which has been adapted by Helen Edmundson from the original novel by Leo Tolstoy, is a celebrated and exemplary adaptation of an enduring classic about contemporary morality and the extreme consequences of love. (JA) Until Aug 20, matinees and evenings.

Pilgrim Theatre, 262 Pitt St, Sydney. $15.

Tickets & info: www.aim.edu.au/courses/ acting-theatre

Seussical The Musical Arguably, one of the most ubiquitous images associated with children’s literature is that of a skinny cartoon cat wearing a bow tie and a tall, red and white striped hat.

“We’ve all grown up reading Dr Seuss books as kids…” said Sam Moran, who plays that ubiquitous Dr Seuss character – The Cat In The Hat – in a forthcoming production of Seussical The Musical.

Seussical is a full length musical using concepts and characters from the Dr Seuss book series. The story centres around Horton The Elephant, who is presented with a dual challenge: looking after an abandoned unhatched egg, and helping a tiny community of people he discovers on a speck of dust. One of those tiny people is Jojo, a little girl with a big imagination who “thinks too many thinks”. The Cat In The Hat guides Jojo through her discovery of the world around her.

Imagination and child’s play features much in Moran’s career. He spent six years as the “yellow Wiggle”, and hosts his own show Play Along With Sam on Nick Jr. Also no stranger to success is Bella Thomas, who plays Jojo in the musical. She recently stunned audiences as one of the leads in Matilda.

Seussical promises to have the same universal appeal as the books that inspired it.

“The songs are a little bit whacky, little bit zany, but fun and catchy as well,” said Moran.“It’s just really very sweet and very joyful.” (RB) Aug 18–28, evenings and matinees. Bryan Brown Theatre, 80 Rickard Road, Bankstown. $20-$40.Tickets & info: www.blakc.com.au or (02) 8764 8137

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Opera Australia’s The Marriage of Figaro

Mozart’s famous Opera, The Marriage of Figaro is heading down to Parramatta for two nights only as part of Opera Australia’s national tour. This Opera is set in one day with more drama than an episode of Gossip Girl.

It follows Figaro and Suzanna who are engaged with the approval of the Count. The Count is married to the Countess but he also has his eyes on Suzanna and he wants to claim an ancient right to have whichever lady of the house he pleases. From there drama ensues and Figaro, the Countess and Suzanna try to stop his wicked ways.

Baritone Simon Meadows isn’t new to this Opera, having appeared in it twice before playing both Figaro and the Count, this time around he’s playing the Count again and is has fun portraying a bad guy. What he loves about this production is Mozart’s music as not only is it delightful to listen to but it’s actually good for a singer’s voice.

“It’s beautiful music to sing and great for the voice. I think that’s the number one thing that I

Orpheus

Sydney’s most innovative indie theatre group Lies, Lies and Propaganda – in association with Suspicious Woman Productions – turns the tragic ancient Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice on its head with an Australian Gothic retelling.

When his fiancé is tragically killed on the day of their wedding, Orpheus charms his way into the underworld on a mission to reclaim her.

But this place is nothing like he expected.

There’s a bar, the Sheriff is inviting him to perform at the local talent show, and the next bus out of town doesn’t come until Thursday.

“This is the most diverse cast we’ve ever had.

Four of us are mixed-race, and everyone has a story of being from somewhere else and the pain involved in trying to go home again,” said Director/Producer Michael Dean. “Our unique process, drawing from personal experiences, means that our Orpheus is a distinctly and honestly Australian version of this classic tale.”

This production also sees the Blood Moon Theatre used in a whole new way. Audiences will be immediately immersed in the world of the play as soon as they enter the humble

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love about the Opera, it’s intelligently written.

[The music] gives a fluid movement of the voice.

There are a lot of changes so it’s good for any singer young and old. It’s a balm for the voice and keeps the voice in good nick.” (AMal) August 19–20, 7.30pm. Riverside Theatre, cnr Church and Market Street, Parramatta. $39-$59.Tickets & info: www.riversideparramatta.com.au

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space tucked into the back of the World Bar. The only theatre space in Sydney Dean knows to have a bar within the room, he encourages audiences to arrive half an hour before the show to enjoy a drink and soak up the atmosphere. (AM) Aug 18–27, Tues-Sat 8pm, 3pm Sun. Blood Moon Theatre @ The World Bar, 24 Bayswater Road, Kings Cross. $25.

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/MHWO Info: www.liesliesandpropaganda.com/lies-5

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Bijou: A Cabaret of Secrets and Seduction

French cabaret is like a selection of bonbons: soft, sweet, dark, bitter and decadent.

It takes someone as talented as Chrissie Shaw to bring those sensations to a performance.

Written by Shaw, Bijou was inspired by a photograph of a mature, bejewelled woman sitting in a Parisian cafe. The photo was taken

by George Brassai, famous for his images of the seedy, underworld Parisian nightlife of the 1930’s.

When Shaw saw it, she thought: “Oh my God, I want to be that woman!” and fabricated a biography incorporating what little facts she could find on the woman.

Shaw’s creation takes the audience on a journey through her life using song, dance, poetry, drama and comedy. She is in a Parisian cafe, alone but for the pianist, played by Alan Hicks (an accomplished classical pianist in his first acting role).

Shaw’s role is physically and emotionally tough. Her anecdotes take us to a traumatic childhood incident; to humorous encounters with strangers; to some very raunchy sexual scenarios.

With classics such as ‘Falling In Love Again’ as well as some obscure and surprising songs, Shaw believes the show will be an aural treat.

If you enjoy French culture, nostalgia and intriguing narrative then go and see this show.

(RB) Aug 17-27; Wed-Sat, 8pm + Sun 5pm.

The Depot Theatre, 142 Addison Rd, Marrickville. $22-$32.

Tickets & info: www.thedepottheatre.com

The Founder

In the opening scene of The Founder, Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc is directly addressing the camera, giving a lengthy and earnest sales pitch.

When the camera pulls away, we see he is trying to sell a milkshake machine to a potential customer. The customer’s emphatic “no” is followed by scenes of more rejections, Kroc’s frustrated banging on his car, forced displays of optimism, and gallant perseverance.

This sets the theme for the bio-drama which tells the true story of how Ray Kroc effectively swindled Dick and Mac McDonald out of their small but very successful hamburger chain to create the McDonald’s Corporation.

Written by Robert D Seigel and directed by John Lee Hancock, The Founder is a celebration of the driven anti-hero, in the same spirit as Wall Street, The Social Network and Steve Jobs.

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scowls, ever pessimistic and indifferent to Kroc’s ideas. So when Kroc leaves her for the younger, more entrepreneurial wife of an associate, well, we don’t blame him.

While some early sequences look like a corporate “company pride” video, there is a sense the film tries to avoid obvious marketing.

However, lines like “McDonald’s can be the new American church…”, and Kroc’s impassioned plea to the brothers to “Do it for America!” border on proselytising.

Set in the 1950’s, the film has a buoyant, nostalgic feel. The soundtrack supercharges the mood and action on screen. The performances all round are convincing and entertaining. It’s probably half an hour longer than it needs to be, but definitely well worth a view. (RB) WWW

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In this dance production, co-produced by Force Majeure and Sydney Theatre Company, Alan Flower plays various roles including a child and a father.

The story examines modern parenting, and the many ways to get it wrong, right, or somewhere in between. Inspired by Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap, Flower also described it as a way of seeing “a slice of life”.

A collaboration for many years, Never Did Me Any Harm offers “family life that isn’t often seen, it’s a passport to look at the difficulties and joys... It’s funny and sad and very theatrical.”

The joys and terrors of parenting are nothing new, but Never Did Me Any Harm will show them anew.

“It’s very balanced,” added Flower. “It looks at various different sides and viewpoints.”

“Parenting has changed so much. It’s a meditation on all that.” (OA) Aug 17–20, evenings and matinees.

Glen Street Theatre, cnr Glen Street and Blackbutts Road, Belrose. $47-$64, student rush $16.

Tickets & info: www.glenstreet.com.au or 9975 1455

High-Rise

Based on the novel by J.G Ballard, this brave English film is an insanely unique look at the psychological pressures of living in a high-rise apartment block and the brutal anarchy which arises when the more affluent tenants battle with the underprivileged.

Audiences will quickly be drawn into this intelligent study of communal living which takes a distorted yet hauntingly real look at the fragility of human co-existence and the warfare induced by social class segregation.

This story of a prominent doctor (Tom Hiddleston) who moves into a high-rise and steadily depersonalizes in a contained society is raw and gritty and contains mesmerising dreamlike sequences, which are

appropriately incoherent at times.

Set in the 1970’s this dark and sinister film, which is masterfully written with pitch black humorous undertones, may be a subtle and very relevant comment about the dangers of wealth, scrutinising the moral fibres of society in any time frame. (MMo) WWW1/2

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We’d hate to be accused of typecasting but we could well imagine the four One Nation senators sharing a packet of “Roadkill” or some similar Aussie jerky (maybe the Croc flavour) in one of those late night Senate sessions. Definitely no halal certification there! Similarly we would not be surprised if other right and far right wing political parties even chose to market their own non-Halal certified all Aussie ‘jerky’ – just the thing to be chewing at your next anti-Mosque protest.

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Nature Roars Back When Bob Poole was 17 and living in East Africa, he was invited by chance on an expedition with a National Geographic film crew.This led to his becoming a camera assistant and ultimately a cinematographer for National Geographic.

Since then he has filmed dozens of documentaries, travelling to remote and dangerous locations and framing nature with stunning artistry.

“I always picked the jobs that led to the best adventures,” said Poole, commenting on some of the incredible places he’s worked. His heart and soul, however, will always be in Africa.After making a documentary with his sister, Dr Joyce Poole, a leader in the study of elephant behaviour, Poole also became fascinated with the animal.

“Even though I’ve watched elephants for most of my career, they still constantly amaze me,” he commented.

More recently his focus has been Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.

The civil war that raged between 1977 and 1992, followed by three years of uncontrolled hunting, reduced the animal population by up to 90%, and considerably damaged the land and foliage.An intense

Bob Poole.

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and collaborative international effort to restore the park has resulted in a miraculous regeneration of flora and fauna.

Nature Roars Back is the name of Poole’s speaking tour during which he will show films, tell stories and answer questions about his experiences in general, but in particular about the amazing resurgence of Gorongosa.

“What I’m talking about on this tour…is how resilient nature is and that given a chance, if we just leave it alone, it just comes bounding back.”

While he doesn’t see himself as an activist, he is glad he has managed to “get other people to care about things they didn’t even know about”.

Audience members are strongly encouraged to ask questions. Poole especially likes questions from kids – one of his favourites being:“Do you have a dog?” (RB) Aug 19, 7:30pm. Sydney Opera House. $40.50-$65.Tickets & info: www.sydneyoperahouse.com or (02) 9250 7777

SMASH! SYDNEY MANGA AND ANIME CONVENTION

It’s the 10th Anniversary of the annual Sydney Manga and Anime Show – best known as the SMASH! Convention – and there’s a lot to celebrate.

Begun in 2007 in an effort to incorporate the art and culture that was missing from other conventions at the time, the first show attracted a modest crowd of 1,435 people. Since then it has seen an exponential growth in popularity, with last years attendance estimated at over 14,000. Susan Ma, a representative from SMASH!, correlates this with an ever increasing interest in all Japanese culture.

“Anime and manga is a first step to getting to know what Japan is all about, because it plays such an important role as part of the culture,” said Ma. She explained that many fans who grew up watching anime classics like Pokemon, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball Z, will, once they’re in their twenties, invest time and money into exploring Japanese pop culture more deeply.

SMASH! is the biggest manga and anime convention in Australia.

“We’ve got special guests from Japan that actually voice the characters from anime series…these guests are very hard to get in other conventions,” said Ma. The convention will feature a famous Thai cosplayer who will be demonstrating how to do make-up and hair and even how to make armour. There will also be cosplay games and competitions.

Another highlight is the “Maid Cafe” where waitresses dress in cute maid uniforms and give intermittent performances.

The two day show will include guest panels, artworks and competitions, workshops on how to draw anime and make costumes, exhibitor stalls, over 120 artists, food and drink (western and Japanese) and… “There’ll be big plushies walking around as well”.

Worth the price of admission alone. (RB) Aug 20–21, Sat 8am-6pm (Anniversary Party 7pm-10.30pm), Sun 8am-5pm.

Rosehill Gardens, James Ruse Drive, Rosehill. $35-$65 (multi-passes available).

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With Coffin Ed, Jay Katz and Miss Death The story may well be apocryphal, but we have it on good authority that one hapless punter was frisked at the infamous Morrissey ‘Vivid’ concert last year and denied access after he was found with two packets of beef jerky cunningly concealed on his body.As you might remember, the bumptious Morrissey had issued a total meat ban at the Opera House for the night and that apparently included the dried and salted variety.

We only recall the episode after recently spotting a display of all Aussie native animal jerky in our local Woolies – crocodile, emu and kangaroo, thank you very much.Whether it was there for local consumption or to tempt an overseas tourist (with a more adventurous palate), we would need to chew over (if you will forgive such a dreadful pun). It did however alert us to the phenomenon that is the incredible ‘cult’ like world of jerky.

Jerky has of course been around for decades and perhaps we best associate it with the USA where it’s long been a favourite of cowboys, truckers, survivalists, blue collar workers and probably most of the members of the National Rifle Association.

We could even imagine Donald Trump devouring a strip or two before posting his next outlandish tweet or slur on Obama or Clinton.That’s the stereotype at least, and it’s perhaps a similar patronage that Australian makers of our own indigenous jerky are trying to attract.When you label a product “Roadkill” (subtitled “Bloody Hot Ring Burner”), it’s unlikely you are pitching it at upmarket gastronomes. On the other hand if you stopped at a truckstop on the Nullabor and they

without any thought of political or socioeconomic association. Perhaps all that remains to be discussed is the extent to which our local fauna can be culled, dried, salted and marketed in those tasty albeit visually unappealing strips.

It’s unlikely we will ever see koala or potoroo jerky, or any other animal subject to legal protection, but surely feral species should be open slather – cat, camel, wild boar and water buffalo, not to mention the odd packet of high country brumbies. Call it ‘Conservation Jerky’ if you like but it would be one way of highlighting those wretched unwelcome critters that are killing our native species and tearing up the environment.

The very suggestion however is enough to make Morrissey cancel his forthcoming Australian tour, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing given his authoritarian stance on what people can shove down their gullets. Whether he slaps the meat ban on venues this time around remains to be seen, but deep within his on-stage paranoia will be the thought that out there, somewhere in the audience of adoring, middle-aged sycophants, will be that one person who has slipped through security, clandestinely chewing on a strip of good old Aussie kangaroo jerky.

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By Jamie Apps Gooch Palms get smarter, denser, and a hell of a lot more catchy.

Sat, Aug 20, Oxford Art Factory The Kill Devil Hills: These guys play with the swagger and self-assured confidence of a band on top of their game. And rightly so, the highly regarded purveyors of rock angst, sun-ripened restraint and fierce poetry have just released their fourth studio album, In On Under Near Water.

Sat, Aug 20, Factory Floor Australian Chamber Choir: Following their sell-out Melbourne performance of Bach in the Castle of Heaven, the sublime voices of the highly acclaimed Australian Chamber Choir will resonate throughout Sydney this weekend. Experience the vocal dexterity of the 18-member choir and wind down your weekend in perfect harmony.

Sun, Aug 21, St Mary’s Cathedral Marguerite Montes: Just because it’s a Tuesday doesn’t mean you have to miss out on a lovely night out while listening to some beautiful music. If this sounds like something you would enjoy, head on down to The Record Crate in Glebe for their weekly event which includes half price pasta and music

by Marguerite Montes as she serenades you with original latin and gypsy music.

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The Dandy Warhols – Distortland

The Dandy Warhols bring their unique vibe to their recent album Distortland.

Every string of their guitars reverberating, every drumbeat that lives in the music is invigorated with their brand of harmonious and playful dysphoria. Distortion crackles alongside, equally a part of the music, played with the same skill as any physical instrument. The almost toneless voice whispers soothingly, as musical and well placed as the lightness of the keyboard.

Disconnected, detached and irresistible. Indifferent and boppy, I couldn’t stop myself from tapping my fingers to the beat, wriggling my shoulders and enjoying the newest edition of this stoner rock.

Comforting and cleverly matter of fact, Distortland is for feelings that exist only between other feelings, this album is great for all the middle times in life, the feelings that demand but don’t know what they demand. (SP) WWW

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“We tore ourselves apart for six months but we’re really proud of the record,” added Jarrett, highlighting how this was by no means an easy process to undergo.

Throughout Sin Will Find You the culture of drug use in society is one which plays a pivotal role.

“With this being such an honest record I couldn’t really ignore it [drug

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culture] because overtime you go out you see it and experience it because it’s all around you,” said Jarrett.“I’ve watched it turn from basically just drinking to almost everyone partaking in some sort of drug habit, whether that be recreationally or an addiction.”

While this theme is prevalent right through the album Jarrett stresses that Storm The Sky are not pushing

any agenda, rather they simply want to “lift the veil and show that it’s happening all around us”.

He added:“This is what it’s like being a teen or 20-year-old growing up now.

At the end of the day if a teenager wants to do something there isn’t a lot anyone can say to really deter them, you just need to be there for them in case something goes wrong.”

One positive that Storm The Sky have taken from the cultural changes surrounding music is in the way they approach songwriting.“It’s not just about writing a three-minute-thirty radio hit anymore, now we think more about how music makes you feel and the emotions it can bring out of you,” explained Jarrett.

New album Sin Will Find You out now via UNFD, available at www.stormthesky.com.au

Palace of the King – Valles Marineris

Palace of the King never tire despite the intensity of their music.

Pulling on the listeners’ ears like a bow dragged slowly across the strings of a violin.

Electrified with several thousand watts of energy. Building tension as it approaches a breaking point. Reaching and surpassing the point with some pain and some satisfaction;Valles Marineris encourages full violent body movement.

Listeners may feel the need to thrash the air with their arms and flop about like a fish rising out of the water, disturbing as much space as they can as they fall back down, because nothing else will suffice. Shaking from head to foot in a self-induced seizure, feel the desperation, the clawing at the insides in response to music that pulls it in all directions. Rock, roll and several other volatile elements combine in Valles Marineris. (SP) WWW

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Wil Wagner: The Smith Street bands passionate frontman is picking up his guitar tonight and taking the stage solo for a special performance. This will be one of the biggest solo shows Wil has ever done, as such he will be joined by friend and musical compadre Jeff Rosenstock.

Thu, Aug 18, Oxford Art Factory Dustin Tebbutt: Following the release of his much anticipated album First Light, Tebbutt is hitting the roads to share his pride and joy with fans. This time around Dustin has specifically written with his live show in mind so these shows are sure to be fun, energetic and lighthearted.

Fri, Aug 19, Newtown Social Club Dave Dobbyn: With the trans-Tasman rugby rivalry between the Wallabies and All Blacks continuing this weekend, what better way to wind down afterwards than with the charming pop sounds of New Zealand’s own Dave Dobbyn?

Sat, Aug 20,The Basement The Gooch Palms: This beloved group return to home soil this weekend to celebrate the release of their sophomore album Introverted Extroverts. While keeping the band’s origin of cheeky, Newcastle-punk in the forefront, Introverted Extroverts sees The

By Jamie Apps With their latest release, Storm The Sky have poured their hearts into the music and left it out there for everyone to judge. Sin Will Find You sees the band from Melbourne throw away all of the tricks and glamorisation that they had relied on in the past in favour of simply spilling out the truth unabashedly, which frontman William Jarrett says was a real “weight off the shoulders”.

Not only did this process change the band’s music but it also saw them growing closer as friends. As Jarrett explained: “Throughout the whole process we sat in a circle in the jam room and our producer, Sam K, made us all open up about our deepest darkest secrets, so we all came out of it knowing a lot more about each other.”

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Most of us who live in Sydney share common values about the type of city we want to live in and the communities we are a part of.

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Despite these common values, successive state and federal governments, backed by corporate donors and driven by party machines, have systemically undermined our potential to be the best city we can be.

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PROTECT PUBLIC HOUSING Despite a 16 year wait-list for public housing, residents at Millers Point, Waterloo and Glebe are being forced from their homes.

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The sacking of Inner West councils and granting of double voting for businesses in the City of Sydney is an attack on residents’ rights to control the future of their community, and have a real say about local development.

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