Big thinking has been unfashionable for too long. Over the past decade, successive leaders have overseen cuts to universities, the arts and public broadcasting. There has also been a rejection of First Nations attempts to wrestle back dignity and create lasting change for the whole country.
In one fell swoop, the funded arts sector and the creative imagination of the nation shrunk.
This money was redirected away from peer assessment into funds for distribution at the discretion of the minister. After a long and consistent outcry, much was returned to the Australia Council’s peer assessment process but grants and funding to artists from the Australia Council decreased by 19% in real terms between 2013-14 and 2019-20, and increased by $1 million in last year’s budget.
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Season 3 of
Could You Survive on the Breadline? have been funded through Screen Australia.
There are also a number of doco projects from producers which are yet to detail if they are TV, film or online.
Screen Australia’s Head of Content Sally Caplan said, “We’re very pleased to support these documentaries that will shine a light on issues including mental health and wellbeing, racism and the natural environment, and are sure to spark conversations. We’re excited to back the first ever Israeli documentary co-production with compelling feature
Prisoner X, from a strong creative team who are well placed to maximise opportunities in financing and pathways to audience across both countries.”
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OXNARD, Calif., March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Mecanica Scientific Services, an engineering and scientific analysis firm, proudly announces the most recent hire of David Daren, P.Eng., as a senior crash accident reconstruction engineer joining the team at its headquarters in Oxnard, CA.
Over the last 33 years, Mr. Daren has been involved in the investigation, analysis and engineering reconstruction of over 2,000 automobile, auto-pedestrian, truck, bicycle and motorcycle collisions. As an expert, he specializes in crash reconstruction, vehicle dynamics, and Event Data Recorder (EDR) analysis. He has provided expert testimony in California Superior Court, British Columbia Supreme Court and Alberta s Provincial Court and Court of Queen s Bench. Mr. Daren earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta in 1987 and completed numerous graduate level engineering courses in dynamics of structures, fracture mech
Contagion and
Outbreak in the immediate days following the COVID-19 shutdown last March, and was reiterated just last week with the viral response to the trailer for the upcoming
Godzilla vs. Kong, a movie monster that’s long represented post-Hiroshima anxiety over nuclear fallout.
When the COVID-19 pandemic has made such disaster film scenarios uncannily real, what’s the lingering appeal of the genre?
“I think we crave the structure to see something bad happen but not have to experience it ourselves,” says Dr Katie Greenaway, a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Melbourne. “You can simulate the scenarios in your mind and imagine how you would respond. Sometimes that can help people feel like they’re building up resilience resources.”