The moment Paralympian Olivia Breen finished the long jump competition at the English Championships last month, her attire should have been the last thing on her mind. Instead, the 24-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, was left “speechless” when a female official criticised her choice of sprint briefs. “Women should not be made to feel self-conscious about what they are wearing when competing, but should feel comfortable and at ease,” she said on Twitter. While shocking, Bree

“My whole feed is just swamped with dog videos! Puppies, dogs, and animals, because they make me laugh,” says Quilesha Webber, a mental health peer practitioner. “Pay attention to the emotions you feel when looking at [social media] accounts,” she says. Quilesha, whose day is filled with helping and supporting young people with mental health issues, says her approach to social media reflects a mindful way of dealing with the damaging pressures it places on teenagers. “It c

I’d rather be there than here, says Melbourne writer and director Siobhan Paterson. There is the setting of the film Palm Springs , with sun, sand, and the heart-stealing Andy Samberg, and here is yet another Melbourne lockdown. Siobhan, who has written and directed many films during Melbourne’s lockdowns, says she found an escape through film. “Watching movies and making films is keeping me sane during the pandemic,” she says. Siobhan began producing her own short films duri

Warning: contains spoilers With more gold and more at stake, the suspense has increased tenfold in the second season of Netflix’s treasure hunt hit, Outer Banks. The familiar theme song of Alt-J’s Left Hand Free plays in the background as the new season follows four main plot points, seamlessly weaving in new characters and storylines. The most important of these is the continuation of last season’s hunt for the gold where we followed a group of teenagers from the wrong s

Afghanistan descended into chaos this week when the Taliban took control of Kabul and declared an interim government. The militant Islamic group stormed through the country capturing all the major cities, with Kabul being their final stop. Since the Taliban’s return to power anyone who worked with Western governments, government officials, journalists, human rights defenders and women have become targets of the new regime, and many have been killed. Many fear the harsh laws

The finals picture has cleared considerably following round 22, but there are still a few scenarios that could see teams jump in and out of the top 8 and top 4. Two favourites in the race to the eight have separated themselves from the rest, while top 4 teams will clash on Friday and Saturday nights in what could be finals previews. The Favourites Greater Western Sydney Giants GWS all but secured their place in the finals while simultaneously ending Richmond’s season in the

Warning: minor spoilers for seasons 1 & 2 The adult animated series Final Space , created by Olan Rogers, is odd to describe. At its core, it’s sci-fi, set in a future where space travel and alliances with other planets are completely normal. But it’s also a comedy, where wildly funny jokes balance hard-hitting, suspenseful drama and action. If that wasn’t enough, there’s also a central love story and even some supernatural elements thrown into the mix. This impressive and

For many university students, sleep deprivation has become an accepted part of their life, but research shows that missing some shut-eye can have long-term implications. A third of university students were not getting enough sleep, a recent research paper out of Edith Cowan University found. Many students were unaware of how many hours of sleep they should be getting, what time they should be going to bed, and what effective strategies for sleeping were. Pulling all-nighter

Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby” music video is a joyful celebration of queerness in hip-hop, packaged in a tongue-in-cheek prison break story. After sliding down a stripper pole to Hell, giving Satan a lap dance and then taking his crown, Lil Nas X left some wondering what else he might do to keep fans coming back for more. In. response, Lil Nas X says, “hold my Grammy”, and comes out guns blazing (literally, if you count the amount of shirtless screen time). Sticking to his t

If the race to the finals was heating up last week, it is now reaching boiling point. The equation was supposed to get simpler with one less round to play, but instead we saw three genuine upsets that brought the field closer together. It has now become decidedly more difficult to predict what will happen in the home-stretch of this AFL season. With six teams in the running for those two finals berths, let’s unpack where every contending team stands before Round 22. The C

The new song from technical death metal stalwarts Rivers of Nihil begins with a lone, mournful guitar fit for a forlorn Morricone, before exploding.  From there, the Pennsylvania-based band effortlessly shifts from moments of quiet anguish to righteous anger, with a surprising number of clean vocals adding further deviation from their initial tech death label. The Pennsylvania-based band dropped their latest song and first single— Clean —in late July, from their upcoming alb

In honour of our latest lockdown, here are six movies that will help you weather the storm. 1. Sweet Virginia, a neo-Western thriller Jon Bernthal ( Widows, Sicario, Wind River ) delivers a career-best performance as a motel owner who unknowingly befriends a violent sociopath. What ensues is the tense unravelling of a story about an unlikely friendship. This thriller expertly plays on genre conventions and uses them to its advantage to create a chilling and utterly brillian