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Kristin Carao

@mikaelakristin.bsky.social
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Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social · 1h
HOUSE OF THE WIND 🎥 stars the director's mother in a really interesting depiction of the ties that bind and whether blood matters more than presence when it comes to family. Also there are very few movies from Cameroon movieswetextedabout.com/love-and-dis...
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Love and Distance in 'House of the Wind' (Venice 2026 Film Review)
Sometimes it feels like modern technology has given us the worst of both worlds. We have the capacity to be constantly connected with our loved ones no matter where in the world we may be. This can pr...
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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 1h
Read more: buff.ly/wK7TKI9
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Run Away It’s The Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 1h
New Review an unusual spin on a ghost story awaits but I definitely recommend Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/10...
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Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Hodder & Stoughton for a copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Hodder & Stoughton Published – Out now Price – £22 hardback £0.9...
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 3h
Renters and homebuyers have been turning up to properties to find a very different reality from the ads. There’s even a name for it: ‘housefishing’.
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Renters and home buyers are seeing AI-‘enhanced’ property photos. Now NSW is changing the rules
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jackheathwriter 📚 @jackheathwriter.bsky.social · 7h
Maybe I just have terrible taste. (My friends think so.) Maybe the big, dumb second half of this new movie was actually very clever and sophisticated in ways I couldn't perceive. But after thinking about it for a week, I've come to another theory... jackheath.novlr.site/blog/residen...
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When something is both overrated and terrific 💉 | Jack Heath 🖊️
Bryan is a twenty-something loser who works as an organ courier. While driving through a snowstorm at night with no chains on his tires and also arguing with his girlfriend on the phone about an unpla...
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 13/10/2026
Couldn't sleep last night so I put together an analysis of all the dishes with change recommendations from the first round of #MKR instant restaurants. No people. No drama. Just the food. cerebralsouprecipes.substack.com/p/mkr-2026-i...
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MKR 2026 Instant Restaurant Round 1
Thanks to a bout of insomnia thought I’d do a brief analysis of the dishes and the Instant Restaurants from the first round of this 2026 season of My Kitchen Rules.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 22h
Can you imagine being so thick you think gay and trans people are to blame for all your problems? I mean, for god’s sake, I’m far too busy controlling the weather with butt stuff.
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SBS Recommender @sbsrecommender.bsky.social · 23h
Catch documentary, Age Of Rage: The Australian Punk Revolution before it leaves SBS On Demand next week 🎤 www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
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Watch Age Of Rage: The Australian Punk Revolution
Watch Age Of Rage: The Australian Punk Revolution for free with SBS On Demand, your ultimate destination for diverse entertainment. Stream now!
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 13/10/2026
RJ Mitte – a life in pictures
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RJ Mitte – a life in pictures
The actor, who had cerebral palsy and brought his experiences to playing Walter White Jr in Breaking Bad, has died aged 34 Continue reading...
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Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For @thecurbau.bsky.social via Adelaide Film Festival I spoke to the director of AGATA THE WRITER starring Mia Wasikowska. www.thecurb.com.au/adelaide-fil...
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Whose right to write? Kuba Dorabialski on Agata the Writer
One of the key questions in Kuba Dorabialski's Agata the Writer is who gets to tell the stories of other people’s pain?
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Grant Watson @fictionmachine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
RIP RJ Mitte, who played Walter White Jr on Breaking Bad, had cerebral palsy, and an active campaigner for disability rights. ew.com/rj-mitte-dea...
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‘Breaking Bad’ star RJ Mitte dies at 34
RJ Mitte, the actor best known for playing Walter White Jr. on ‘Breaking Bad,’ has passed away at the age of 34.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
well this is terribly sad, what a talent, and he brought so much warmth to Breaking Bad... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte dies age 34
Mitte was best known for his role as the son of drug kingpin Walter White in the hit television series Breaking Bad.
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the Curb @thecurbau.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Shocked and saddened by the news of RJ Mitte's passing. A genuinely lovely guy. I interviewed him when Standing Up for Sunny came out and he was such a delight to talk to. RIP
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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I would tell you to watch the 2018 Mexican film Time Share to see RJ Mitte take his heel turn but I don’t know if it’s even available to watch anymore. It’s sad Mitte has passed and even sadder when his work is impossible to find.
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pete of @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social generously interviewed 3 podcast hosts for his show—Traci (@bitracial.bsky.social) of The Stacks, Brad (@bradlisti.bsky.social) of OtherPpl Pod, and myself. He then created this omnibus edition of our 3 consecutive hours: Audio: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Special Episode: Paragons of the Literary Podcast with Traci Thomas from The Stacks Podcast, David Naimon from Between the Covers, and Brad Listi from Otherppl Podcast
Podcast Episode · The Chills at Will Podcast · October 6 · 2h 51m
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The World According to Glenn @theglennpod.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This Wednesday on The World According to Glenn, we're covering Glenn's performances in two streaming action/crime comedies, Brothers and Back in Action! With special guest Jay Ledbetter! Subscribe now on all podcast platforms. linktr.ee/theglennpod
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Crowbar @crowbar.wtf · 12/10/2026
Spinach and Fetta Gozleme Lot of options for fillings, & there is something very comforting about the warm crispy pastry straight out of the pan. Do you know the difference between feta and fetta cheese? (Access via subscription/free trial) www.skool.com/food-cooking...
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Australian Book Lovers @australianbooks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Three new Fantastic Features of the Week. - Shrewd Little Sleuth by Scott Leckie - biography - The Little Book of Influence by Jordana Borensztajn - non-fiction - Hollow Peak by Max Jeffries - crime thriller #booksky #ReadMoreAussieBooks #AusWrites #read more Aussie reads - australianbooklovers.com
On a pale green background text reads: FANTASTIC FEATURES OF THE WEEK. Images of 3 book covers: Shrewd Little Sleuth by Scott Leckie, The Little Book of Influence by Jordana Borensztajn and Hollow Peak by Max Jeffries
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Projection Booth Podcast @projectionbooth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So bitchy. That audience is the film festival audience, a volatile, reliably left-of-center social media jumble of disgruntled film students, part-time activists/baristas, laid-off drunk sports writers, couples therapy podcasters in denial about the furry husband... (H/T Josh Hadley)
Horror Movies and Politics Are Killing Film Festivals
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Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Not feeling the best today as I have been rejected again for a role. Go me! But need to keep it together because driving lesson in the afternoon. Someone please give me a break.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 09/10/2026
I love this guy. Happy Camille Saint-Saëns's birthday!
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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This week I watched so much TV, the pics barely fit on the thumbnail. We have: Our Friends In The North! Lanterns! Season 3 of The Americans! Ted Lasso! Slow Horses! Last Seen! Blue Lights! Three finales, a drive-by Star Trek rant and some gratuitous cat pictures.
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Escapist Routes #79
Reading, watching, listening and eating
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 10/10/2026
So this is insane but I've just clicked over *350* separate physical media projects on my CV, so to celebrate here's a bunch of recently announced physical media projects I have not shared here yet. Behold - thread time, bitches! 🧵
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas's Home Entertainment Work
An incomplete list of home entertainment blu-ray/4k/etc releases that Alexandra Heller-Nicholas has contributed to - audio commentaries, liner notes, video essays and even a little co-production work ...
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Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is happening next weekend, October 17 & 18 (Saturday & Sunday) from 1 pm AEDT! Radio National's annual books countdown, Top 100 Australian Books. #Top100Books
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Tarang isn’t posting here yet. Lots more on FB. Here he’s challenging media for terrible ‘hero’ framing of #SamWood
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If I accidentally read another piece on how everything is the Left’s fault, which doesn’t address the fact that the Left is fighting a highly unequal conflict where its opponents have control of major tech platforms, my head is going to 🤯🤯🤯🤯.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fantastic opportunity for East Midlands writers via @writingeastmidlands.com! Please do share in your networks 🤗 writingeastmidlands.co.uk/for-writers/...
The Aurora Prize for Writing reopens 10th October 2026 at 9 am.
The deadline to submit your entry is 13th January 2027 at 11.59 pm.
The Aurora Prize is a national writing competition, seeking outstanding new writing in short fiction and poetry.
ENTER THE AURORA PRIZE HERE
Since 2016, Aurora has provided a platform for writers, offering a prize that is truly national (and international) with its heart in the East Midlands.
 
Our judges have included leading literary lights from the region and beyond, with names such as Joanna Cannon, Casey Bailey, Mahsuda Snaith, Alison Moore, Jon McGregor, Malika Booker, Helen Mort, Debris Stevenson, Shreya Sen-Handley, Georgina Wilding, Joelle Taylor and Irenosen Okojie.
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Cinema Sleuths @cinemasleuths.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Which of his top 5 movie bad guys is @lukedeckard.bsky.social talking about, and why is he one of cinema's most sympathetic villains? Find out below: Apple: tinyurl.com/BadGuyApp Spotify: tinyurl.com/BadGuySpot YouTube: tinyurl.com/BadGuyYT #MovieBadGuys #Top5Villains #Movies
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 10/10/2026
I wrote an essay for the Blu-ray release of Michael Almereyda and Courtney Stephens documentary John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office, narrated by Chloe Sevigny
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New episode with @carolynryan.bsky.social & @gtconway.bsky.social & @timothysnyder.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
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George Conway, Carolyn Ryan & Timothy Snyder
Podcast Episode · Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · October 10 · 1h 16m
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/10/2026
‘I just wasn’t going to give up’: the fight to free the longest-serving political prisoner in the US
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‘I just wasn’t going to give up’: the fight to free the longest-serving political prisoner in the US
Leonard Peltier was imprisoned for 49 years before his sentence was commuted. A new Netflix documentary exposes the ‘corrupt’ system that allowed it to happen
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
there are so many things I don't understand about what people are willingly feeding into an LLM.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Prize-winning English translation of Taiwan Travelogue.
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Taiwan Travelogue translator Lin King is calling out publishing’s “relay translation” practices.
Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Prize-winning English translation of Taiwan Travelogue by Yá…
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have learnt of the greatest Australian woman of all time www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07...
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The Soviets wanted him dead. But they hadn't counted on him having a wife like Nell Tritton
Being chased through the streets of Paris by a car with "machine guns poking out of the windows" is a far cry from the rumblings of Brisbane in the early 1900s. Nell Tritton wanted an adventurous life...
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Grant Watson @fictionmachine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NEW REVIEW! A new instalment of the V/H/S horror anthology premieres on Shudder this weekend: all-new shorts focused on sound and music directed by Ernest Dickerson (Demon Knight), RZA (Wu-Tang Clan), and others. Here's FictionMachine's verdict. fictionmachine.com/2026/10/10/r...
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REVIEW: V/H/S/Mixtape (2026)
V/H/S, the ongoing franchise of found-footage horror shorts, returns this weekend for a ninth iteration. Mixtape features a range of films, united by common themes of music and sound, and framed by…
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 10/10/2026
Over on THE HIP POCKET this week, we're doing "The Hard Episode," three movies that left marks on us when we saw them the first time. It's rough going, and we dig into the question of why we watch movies we know will upset us. www.drewmcweeny.com/the-hip-pock...
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The Hip Pocket #406 - The Hard Episode
The Hard Episode digs into films that are designed to make you uncomfortable, with Craig, Aundria and Drew picking POSSESSION, THREADS, and PRIME CUT.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1
No Ghosts in lower left, Max Lury in lower right. White hand reaching down, two eye holes in the wrist.
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Gotta say, I enjoyed the last two Mission: Impossible movies. At no point did I think, "Wow, it would be great if the existential threat from this action franchise was actually real." And yet. www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...
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Scoop: AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt
Inside the AI industry's worst-case-scenario prep.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Decadently beautiful and sexy television series incoming deadline.com/2026/10/hiro...
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Havana Rose Liu To Star In Hiro Murai FX Pilot
Havana Rose Liu is set to star in an untitled FX crime drama pilot from recent Emmy winner Hiro Murai ('Widow's Bay').
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Kwaidan is on HBO Max. If you haven't seen it, don't be alarmed by the 3 hr running time. It earns every minute. Slow and quiet but hypnotic because the visual, sonic, and narrative negative space create tension. This seems paradoxical if you prioritize "fast" movies.
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Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man....been wanting comfort so watching Great British Bake Off weekly. 😅 And this season's word is: Contrast. #GBBO @runwithskizzers.bsky.social would you agree?
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/10/2026
COMMUNICATION Would you rather get your legislative updates by mail so you can keep them in a file cabinet with every bank statement you’ve ever received, or do you want to watch your senator on YouTube and TikTok all day? buff.ly/c7QsYAg
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Twelve Upsides to Gerontocracies
“Late-stage capitalism is an absolute grind. Gerontocracies remind us that short-term, medium-term, and long-term disability insurance policies exist for a r...
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Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au · 10/10/2026
Not satisfied with stealing from creators, tech companies are also facilitating widespread fraud against us. Oh the productivity! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Someone used AI to create a book about me and sold it online
Cam Wilson, who is the ABC's AI reporter, recently discovered an AI-generated book about him and a book he wrote.
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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 10/10/2026
over the summer, I did an — on the surface — unhinged road trip that brought me to Salt Lake City. I had this essay sitting in a draft for a while: youth, loss of youth through trauma, and a road back. placeholders.beehiiv.com/p/you-used-t...
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You Used to Call Me Miss America
A place for thoughts that don't have a place.
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Worth checking out THE LAST FIRST on AppleTV. A mountaineering movie that is very much from the director of MY KID COULD PAINT THAT and THE TILLMAN STORY.
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Nicholas Verso @nickverso.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And we are live! Proud to finally announce that our series Invisible Boys is now available to watch on Hulu! Much love to the wonderful cast and crew who brought this show to life 🏳️‍🌈❤️ I hope you enjoy it!!
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Closing GeoNet!! This is dreadful!! #eqnz @geonet.bsky.social #earthquakes #Aotearoa #NZ www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
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Lack of staff closes earthquake monitoring centre, Labour decries Govt cuts
The closure at GeoNet meant inaccuracies, known as 'ghost quakes', could occur.
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HookTurn @hookturn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One this day, 9th October 1891, the ceremonial mace of the Parliament of Victoria was stolen. A $50,000.00 reward is still on offer for its return. #Melbourne #Naarm clembyard.com/2026/10/09/m...
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Maceless in Melbourne
Image courtesy of the Parliament of Victoria website. On this day, 9th October, in 1891, the ceremonial mace of the Parliament of Victoria was stolen. A $50,000.00 reward is still on offer for its …
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay wins Nobel peace prize
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Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay wins Nobel peace prize
Awards committee recognises efforts of 85-year-old South African-born judge for efforts to promote international law * Nobel peace prize – latest updates Former UN human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a judge on the international court of justice, has won the Nobel peace prize. South Africa-born Pillay, 85, was recognised for her efforts to promote peace and international law, said Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee. Continue reading...
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 09/10/2026
New Nobel winner Anne Carson’s playful, deeply intelligent work riffs off and reinvents ancient classics – and often lands with breathtaking emotional force.
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Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her bold, inventive, breathtaking work
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