Alice Clarke, an award-winning freelance games journalist, copywriter and a regular columnist for The Age , had an unconventional start to her career in the industry. She says one of the best pieces of advice she was given in her career came from her mentor, and is a philosophy she still lives by. “Every day the clock resets to zero in journalism. It doesn’t matter how good you were yesterday, it doesn’t matter how much you sucked yesterday. All that matters is what you produ

The Tipping Point showcases a band assessing its twilight era with a sense of humility and maturity, highlighting Tears For Fears’ ability to propagate their nostalgic ’80s-era sound with an injection of melancholic electronica. It pares back the excess of their affiliated era while retaining a ponderous groove of pulsating machinery and multi-layered keyboard textures. The Tipping Point is Tears For Fears’ first single release in anticipation of their upcoming album of th

“As long as I’ve got my phone and my computer and a decent signal, I should be able to get anything done. That’s the mindset I’ve kept throughout all this – you’ve just got to keep working and keep finding a way to get things done and make things happen.” Age sports reporter Roy Ward says it’s important to take every opportunity to build experience and become a better reporter. How did you get into journalism? “Well, I always wanted to be a journalist, but I wasn’t smart en

By Nadia Alaoui How did you get started as a journalist? Going through school, I quickly realised that I was never going to be a...

Jordan Acker dreams of one day having the talent he manages at the top level of music. “In sport it would be like seeing your athlete win the championship. For us, we want to see our artists headlining Coachella,” he says. Speaking over Zoom, Jordan had just finished a shift for his day job as a Customer Experience Agent for footwear retailer Accent Group Limited, and will spend the few hours before bed doing work for the business he co-founded, Ivy Music Group. Ivy Music Gro

Developing local connections and saying yes to opportunities are keys to success for former Swinburne journalism student Brooke Grebert-Craig, now working at the Bass Coast News. “It got to a point where I was so desperate to be a journalist – I needed to take a chance and move down, even if it meant leaving family and friends,” she says. Did you always want to be a journalist? I always wanted to be a journalist, I think, in year 10 is when I really started to think about i

It’s 2015, Isabelle had just turned 17 and was at her first “grown up” party. Beer bottles overflowed the bin and spilled liquor made the wooden floor sticky. Dancing around to the loud music, talking with her friends, and drinking something mixed with vodka, she was hitting it off with a boy she liked, talking, flirting, and laughing in the laundry room of the house. Suddenly he was on top of her and reaching to unbutton her jeans while he groped her. Tipsy and a little dizz

How did you get interested in journalism? I got interested in the heyday of 60 Minutes , when it was George Negus and Jana Wendt. My strongest subject at school was English so I was interested in a humanities-oriented career. Although, I was a big horse rider and I wanted to be a vet. But, when I was 15 my science teacher said ‘you’re probably better off doing something you’re innately good at’, which was writing. How did you break into journalism? After an internship, I wo

Alex Danes is starting a revolution. “I’m looking for recruits!” proclaims the creative entrepreneur through laughter, only half joking. “You don’t have to do anything, you don’t have to sell anything to anybody, you just have to walk around and be yourself, that’s how you’re going to join my revolution. It’s the easiest revolution in the world.” It’s a revolution, Alex hopes, that will help create a world where labels don’t have to matter, and everybody can express who they

The energy in the air was electric as singer/songwriter Maggie Alley took to the stage at The Brunswick Ballroom in July. “The gig took a lot of planning between us,” said Alley. “It’s likely the best and biggest gig we’ve played.” Invited to perform by guitarist and producer Matt Walker, who has won an ARIA for best blues and roots album, the 19-year-old and her band brought their distinct brand of groovy punk blues to the dignified venue. Only a month later and Maggie Alley

As Australians struggle through lockdowns, mass job losses and business shutdowns, increasing numbers of people are struggling with mental illness and stress. Large-scale crises like the pandemic can have a large impact on psychological health, with Lifeline recording a 40 per cent increase in calls since 2019. Similar stresses were felt during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, when financial instability and job losses were also an extended concern for many around the nation

It takes a team to take back control of your health, says naturopath Nadia Woods. That team—of health professionals, specialists in their fields—is what brings the best results. But that doesn’t mean you should “manage with and put up with pain and discomfort”, which is what too many health professionals will tell you, Nadia says.  “Some conditions do come with age, but it’s important someone tells you—you don’t deserve to feel like this,” Nadia says. “It’s significant really