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• Darwin's 'undercover craft groups' keep crochet alive by creating ...

  

  Darwin's 'undercover craft groups' keep crochet alive by creating coral for conservation awarenessUpdatedJanuary 15, 2016 12:53:51 During her lifetime obsession with slippery hooks and fuzzy filaments, Kaye Boath has created beanies, tablecloths, "bed spreads, bed spreads and more bed spreads", and even a three-foot-tall giraffe."I don't know why. I must be mad. I think I'm addicted," Ms Boath said."It's very relaxing. I've been known to go to sleep with a crochet hook in my hand, wake..

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• Last Cab to Darwin's Reg Cribb on why stage plays make it on the ...

  

  Playright and screenwriter Reg Cribb, on the set of his latest play, opening at the Griffin Theatre.Photo: Quentin Jones These are good times for Australian film, says screenwriter Reg Cribb. Good times, especially, for those adapting stories originally invented for the stage to the big screen.Cribb's screenplay forLast Cab to Darwin– recently awarded Best Adapted Screenplay at the AFI/AACTA Awards – began as a stage play. So did Brendan Cowell'sRuben Guthrie(which first saw light in Belvoir..

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• Alice jockeys shortage crisis

  

  Monika Wolanin is working towards becoming an apprentice jockey in Alice Springs. Picture: REX NICHOLSONTHE problem of a shortage of jockeys based in Alice Springs has gone beyond crisis point.There are only four Alice Springs race jockeys for Saturday’s meeting at Pioneer Park.This will force trainers and owners to bring in jockeys to ride the up to nine horses in the races.Trainers with fewer horses in work are the most affected as often they cannot offer a jockey a full book of rides as the l..

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• Sydney Festival: Family ties bind Joel Ma and James Mangohig on ...

  

  Music producer James Mangohig (left) and rapper Joel Ma star in In Between Two.Photo: Cesar Rodrigues Photographer and storyteller William Yang had one piece of advice for James Mangohig, who is about to make his acting debut."Repetition, he said," says Mangohig. "Then he said, 'Repetition, repetition, repetition'. I got the message, I think."With Chinese-Australian rapper Joel Ma, aka Joelistics​, Mangohig is the co-creator of the double-stranded autobiographical showIn Between Two, which h..

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