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In Lin-Manuel Mirandaâs world, writing is never just a form of self-expression. Words, strung together, can remake entire realities. Wield them a certain way and you have a revolutionary force.
The playwright, actor and composer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for
Hamilton, the virtuosic musical that re-imagines the life of Alexander Hamilton, an orphan from the British West Indies who designed Americaâs central banking system. But he grew up the son of Puerto Rican immigrants in New York Cityâs Inwood, where over a third of the community is overseas-born, to a soundtrack of show tunes and hip-hop.
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Koala named Frizzle from Taree, Australia, is treated for burns at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital in Port Macquarie, Australia, on November 29, 2019. Volunteers from the Koala Hospital worked alongside National Parks and Wildlife Service crews searching for koalas after weeks of devastating bushfires across the nation’s states of New South Wales and Queensland. Credit: Nathan Edwards
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In November 2019, Lewis the koala instantly became a symbol of the tragic plight his species faces in Australia. Local residents found him limping along the hot pavement near Port Macquarie, desperate to escape flames of the Long Flat bushfire that were lining the road and turning his forest home to ash. The burned marsupial appeared disoriented, struggling to survive. G
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How Lin-Manuel Miranda went from rapping about Vegemite to creating Hamilton
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It is only 15 years since Lin-Manuel Miranda was an unknown performer who – at Adam Hills’ suggestion – improvised a rap song about Vegemite at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
“I knew I needed black and brown bodies and voices”: Lin-Manuel Miranda performs a song from Hamilton during the Grammy Awards in 2016.
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The American singer, songwriter and actor thought Australia was like a “cousin country” at the time. “We were both subjects of the Crown two hundred and some odd years ago,” he says. “We grew up in different parts of the world but there’s a lot of similarities.”