Tips- Super 14, NRL, AFL

Compiled by: Nick Underhill and Anita Theodorou As this is our first round of tips please excuse if they aren’t any good. We will however, evaluate our tipping abilities on a weekly basis. NRL Broncos to beat the Eels Rabbitohs down Sharks Dragons defeat Roosters Warriors over Storm Cowboys over Manly Bulldogs over Raiders Knights...

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No politics, just party-ties?

  So the 53rd parliament began this week, returning to the people of Queensland some of the regular squabbling pollies and some ambitious freshmen. We waited in nervous anticipation for the fashion tragedies to begin. Some people see fashion as a lame excuse for a writing genre, but sadly (though I’m not actually distressed at...

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Deported journalist addresses students

Kristy McMahon reports Fiji correspondent Sean Dorney spoke to QUT journalism students this week about his deportation from Fiji after new censorship laws were enacted by the military-led government. The Fijian Government has recently prohibited all media from reporting negative stories about the Government. Information officers are...

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C.W. Stoneking graces the Tiv

It has been a long time since I have seen a tuba played on stage and I would imagine a long time since such an instrument has graced the stage of the Tivoli. However, Beethoven and Bach were not being played that eve. There was a different blend of classical music afoot. C.W. Stoneking’s breed of swampy, folky, pre-war blues...

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Knowing: The Nicholas Cage Experience

Words: Matt Willing Nicholas Cage has definitely made some steamers since really hitting it big with Leaving Las Vegas. I can count on one hand the movies where his acting has passed the grade in the last fifteen years, yet the roles keep coming. Knowing (2009, Proyas) is not a bad film, but it certainly does not live up to its...

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