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• Letting Sleeping Dogs lie in London

  

  REVIEW | We’ve all got a chequered Australian past. But could yours destroy your life?

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• Steve Hughes has got some Big Issues

  

  REVIEW | To the delight of the audience at a packed Leicester Square Theatre last week, Australian comedian Steve Hughes explored the stupidity of Western governments and the world in his entertaining, and often poignant, show Big Issues.

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• Our Country’s Good and so is this play

  

  REVIEW | There is a certain irony for a London audience watching Our Country’s Good in 2012.

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• Cliff Young shuffles into ABC telemovie

  

  At 61 years old, potato farmer Albert Ernest Clifford “Cliff” Young transfixed the nation when he ran 875 kilometres to win the Westfield Sydney to Melbourne ultra-marathon in 1983.

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• Jonathan LaPaglia on The Slap and our Australian society

  

  When KARL MATHIESEN was asked to interview Jonathan LaPaglia, one of the stars of the new Australian drama series The Slap, little did he realise that it would result in a profound consideration of contemporary Australian culture.

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• Hobbit gives Australia the ring of approval

  

  Scottish actor Billy Boyd was recently in Australia and he found time to chat to LESLEY SLADE about The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies, as well as his love of surfing, Jedis and music…

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• You can leave your hat on!

  

  Aussie comedian Deborah Frances-White reveals her tricks to getting almost anyone to want to sleep with you.

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• “Do you want to sit in the corner and be a smart arse?”

  

  After only a very brief phone conversation, Liam Flanagan found out why Hannah Gadsby has quickly become one of Australia’s most successful comedians.

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• Snowtown film a source of pride for Kurzel and Pittaway

  

  For director Justin Kurzel, the decision to source local talent for his debut feature film Snowtown was a risky one. Enter local lad and first time actor Lucas Pittaway who plays the central character of Jamie Vlassakis. LIAM FLANAGAN sat down with the two men in London to chat about the film.

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• The man behind the tape

  

  It takes a great show to sell out a venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival but takes an even greater show to come back the next year with the same show, upgrade to a larger venue and sell it out once again. That’s exactly what The Boy With Tape On His Face did this year.

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• Adam Hills – just another normal guy

  

  When PAUL JUDGE spoke to funnyman Adam Hills recently, the Aussie comedian was in a London backyard kicking a football with his 13 month year old daughter after having spent all morning reading through a script for Spicks and Specks.

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• Aussies go Wilde for Constance in London

  

  The relationship between Oscar Wilde and Australia is often a conflicted one. Much like the relationship between the celebrated playwright and his ‘new’ play, Constance, showing at north London’s King’s Head Theatre.

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• Snowtown: a grizzly but awesome Aussie film

  

  It was the story that painted South Australia as the serial killer capital of Australia and made a small country town a tourist attraction for all the wrong reasons. The “bodies in the barrels” case was seemingly made to be portrayed as a Saw style horror film yet director Justin Kurzel has taken a different path.

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• Is Neighbours moving to North Queensland?

  

  Australia’s longest running TV drama will decamp for Port Douglas as Neighbours puts Tropical North Queensland streets ahead.

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• Chris Lilley to play one-off UK show as S.mouse!

  

  Multi-award winning Australian actor/writer/director Chris Lilley will be performing in the UK for the very first time on Wednesday 7 September, at the O2 Academy Islington, London.

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• Darryn Lyons fake six-pack shocker

  

  Celebrity Big Brother contestant, Australian Darryn Lyons, stuns viewers with his fake abs.

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• Aussie experts may save Edinburgh Festival

  

  Australian expertise will be called on to help host the 2012 Edinburgh Festival as local know-how is drained by the coinciding Olympic Games, a London newspaper reports.

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• Big Brother is watching Darryn Lyons

  

  Australian punk paparazzi king-pin Darryn Lyons enters the new UK Celebrity Big Brother house, but no Charlie Sheen.

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• The NHS is stretched, so is this sketch

  

  A new Aussie play is about to split London down the middle. Conor McGlone got down to the Etcetera Theatre in Camden for a sneak preview to see what the fuss was all about.

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• Behold the Aussie ‘Rocket Man’

  

  When adventure seeking comic Lawrence Leung landed at London’s Soho Theatre, Leigh Johnston was there to find out what makes him so interested in jetpacks.

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