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Arts & Letters
Hurtling Stone: Meeting theatre director Simon Stone
Benjamin Law
If director–playwright Simon Stone were to write himself into one of his plays, his entrance would read: SIMON STONE, a scruffy man...
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Same-sex Union: Sydney’s Champion Gay Rugby Team
Benjamin Law
Seven pm and the Bondi sun is still caressing surfers, bikini girls and topless males pulling up from their cliff-top runs. Near the...
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Noted
'Outland' by Kevin Carlin
Benjamin Law
On paper, the premise of the new ABC1 sitcom Outland seems too self-consciously quirky for its own good. Homosexuals and sci-fi nerds?...
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The Nation Reviewed
Gourmet Gore: Our Animal Instincts for Eating Meat
Benjamin Law
Here is how you cook a pig’s uterus. First, visit your local abattoir’s Vietnamese section, where they will happily take requests for ‘...
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The only gay book in the village
What makes a piece of writing gay? The author? The subject matter? The characters? Is Queer literature alive and well in Australia, and...
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Dancing in the Dark
Benjamin Law
From the outside, the Snoezelen Room at the Gold Coast’s Mudgeeraba Special School (MSS) doesn’t look like much. The room’s padlocked...
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Tuckshop Duty
Benjamin Law
Someone should make a reality TV show called Tuckshop Ladies. The drama would be explosive. Elimination episodes would take place at...
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The Family Law. Benjamin Law in conversation with Jess McGuire
Benjamin Law
Part 1 | Part 2At this Readings event, writer and born humorist Benjamin Law tells Jess McGuire about his new book, The Family Law. A...
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Bush Love
Benjamin Law
In retrospect, we had been warned. Days before we arrived at Wooroolin’s Peanut Pullers and Backfatters Ball – an annual singles’ event in...
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Supermarket Sweep
Benjamin Law
It’s 4.20 am in Kingston, 30 minutes out of Brisbane, and already the place is a hive of human activity. In the darkness, people haul...
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