Dreams have come true as Australia's first-ever Paralympic three-on-three basketball team has touched down in Puerto Rico, Daniell Allen reports. Special Olympics Australia and the Eltham community have joined forces to send off Australia's entry to the first-ever three-on-three basketball World Cup: Enter, the Eltham Wildcats. The Wildcats are shooting for gold this 3x3 Basketball World Cup. (Image: Supplied) Touching down in San Juan, Puerto Rico, today, the Wildcats have

Amy Anderson captures the quiet moments where we wonder when we left our inner child behind in Before August. We race to grow up and then wish we never grew (Image: Adobe Stock) During that summer when I was nine years old, I would ride my second-hand pink bike around the neighbourhood. The other kids in the street would join me. We knew nothing of the world, and the world knew nothing of us yet.  It was always Abbey’s front yard where we’d leave our bikes all over the lawn,

Genevieve Spiteri reviews Australia's fourth run of Charles Dickens' beloved Christmas tale. Heavy spoilers ahead for the novel and light spoilers for this production! (Although if you don’t know how the story goes by this point, that’s kind of on you)   Premiering to London audiences nine years ago, Matthew Warcus and Jack Thorne’s production of A Christmas Carol  has been praised as one of the greatest theatrical adaptations of the source material, and after experiencing it

Amy Anderson writes Broken Bones for the Prose Poetics unit, a story on love and heartbreak. Some broken things never mend (Image: Adobe Stock) She’d broken her arm the day after we broke up. Karma, I’d say. ‘Get up.’ She says it coldly, standing over me. I must've fallen asleep. ‘Fuck off, B.’ I mumble it out, enjoying the damp grass on the bottom of my back. I close my eyes, and she kicks me in the arm. ‘I said fuck off, B,’ I say a little louder. ‘Jamie, stop being a prick

Bea Lovatt rewrites the classic fable The Tortoise and the Hare in three variations for their Reading Writing Genre unit. Stories from generations ago continue to shape our literature today. How many ways can we rewrite these classic tales to speak to our modern world? (Image: Wix) Not Lovers, But More Than Friends. The annual community fun run had always been more about the raffle tickets and fairy-floss than competition. But for Tilly and Harrison, it was another stage for