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ESSAYS№ 01
Cate Blanchett keeps one foot in Australia and Australian cinema keeps asking her to put it down
Blanchett produces Australian work, funds Australian stories, and has not starred in an Australian film in over a decade, and nobody quite knows how to talk about that.
MARA DENG18.03.2026
TV№ 02
The best Australian TV of 2020 was made for people who could not leave the house
The year's best shows were about confinement, isolation, and people stuck in places they could not leave, which felt about right.
RHYS TAVITA18.12.2020
TV№ 03
Stateless crossed the Pacific via Netflix and the conversation changed
The ABC made a show about immigration detention; Netflix put it in front of sixty million subscribers; and suddenly Australian policy was international content.
RHYS TAVITA28.07.2020
TV№ 04
Stateless arrived at exactly the wrong time and that made it necessary
A show about immigration detention centres premiered during a pandemic lockdown, and somehow the timing made it more urgent rather than less.
RHYS TAVITA18.05.2020