Boozy bakery. It sounds like the ultimate combo, right? That’s exactly what Sarah Ryan and Damien Shaw thought when they created Bad Love Club. The duo opened the doors to their innovative space just a few weeks ago and it follows a pretty simple concept – coffee, bagels and jaffles by day, booze and sweet …
Jenna Russo’s Dreamstate
As the lights fade in a dingy Fitzroy bar, smoke appears from hidden corners. A mellow, dream like backing track begins to fill the silence and heads across the room snap up, looking with anticipation to the stage. The audience members – an interesting assortment of excited 20 somethings, classy 30 year olds and middle-aged folk …
Waste Not, Want Not: India’s Transition to ‘Clean’ Energy
Villages across India are looking at new and sustainable energy sources with many using natural resources like cow manure to create energy. Outside the home of Mahendra Pingulkar, leader of Nivaje village, three men are digging. Deeper and deeper they burrow into the fertile south Indian soil, creating a hole the size of a baby …
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Water For All: India Engineers a Response to its Water Crisis
Sapura Bee lives in a dry and dusty community on the outskirts of Hubli, Karnataka. While most of the houses in this settlement were built decades ago, the poor community has never been connected to local water infrastructure. Until recently, people relied on water deliveries from the government. But often these deliveries were late and …
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Indian School Gets Musical
A rural school in India’s south is taking a unique approach to education, offering disadvantaged children tuition in traditional Indian music and performing arts, alongside academic subjects. Kalkeri Sangeet Vidyalaya (KSV) was established in 2002 to provide local children with education opportunities they would not otherwise have. The school, located about 20 kilometres from Dharwad …
A New Lens on Life
Photo: Andrew Follows. You might have seen photographer Andrew Follows around Melbourne with a camera slung over one arm, but chances are he didn't see you. That’s because Andrew is legally blind. It's a cool Melbourne evening when I first lay eyes on the talented photographer. With his Guide Dog Eamon in tow, Andrew smiles …
When Love is a Crime
Picture this: you have just given birth to a precious, perfectly healthy baby boy. However at just four-weeks-old, your tiny newborn contracts meningitis and is left with severe brain damage, cerebral palsy, epilepsy and multiple types of seizures for the rest of his life. As a parent all you can do is watch while your …
‘No Jab, No Play’ Given Green Light by Parents
A bird-like chirp draws attention to the onesie-clad infant on the soft, shag-pile rug. Baby Molly looks up at Jessica. With a cheeky grin, she squeals, the light dancing in her delicate, blue eyes. At just five months old she already knows and adores her mum. She’s just so easy and content Jessica, 28, explains, as …
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Richmond Food Truck Park
A story about the pop-up Richmond Food Truck Park for my video journalism class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbr2J0T5XZM Originally published on YouTube.
An Interview with Brenton Rees
As a breezy, spring day warms Melbourne’s Federation Square, several seagulls swoop to investigate food scraps, discarded on the sandstone steps. A young woman jumps sideways, like a child leaping between stepping-stones, avoiding the harebrained path of the gulls. Accompanying her is a young man who is tan and blonde dressed in blue shorts and …
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