Tag: australia
Australian court reapproves sales of Gender Queer
As Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer continues to ignite controversy in the US, an Australian review board has approved it for unrestricted sale
Safdar Ahmed’s STILL ALIVE wins Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Eve Pownall Award
Safdar Ahmed's STILL ALIVE: Graphic Reportage from Australia's Immigration Detention System comes out in US in November but it has been picking up the awards back home - with the CBCA making its fourth win since release
HINDSIGHT 2020: 15 TV Series That Elevated the Pandemic Year
Television that lived up to the moment in history we found ourselves trapped in.
5 Must-See Streaming Dystopian Series That You Might Have Missed
1983
Dystopias are by definition fictional societies, but the Earth has had its share of factual ones. You don’t have to create a worst case scenario with a pretend political boogeyman with a history that...
Webcomic Alert: The Utopian City That Wasn’t by Eleri Mai Harris
Australian cartoonist/journalist Eleri Mai Harris isn't just an editor at The Nib, Medium's marvelous comics section, run by Matt Bors. She's a trained journalist who turned to comics to tell stories and in today's Nib she has a good one: the story of the abortive designs for Canberra, the capital of Australia. Like a few other planned capital cities—Celebration and Brasilia comes to mind—the structural, utopian approach to city design rarely works out. The story also includes a dandy forgotten woman—Frank Lloyd Wright's associate Marion Mahony Griffin. So sit back and learn some Australian and architectural history.
