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Plain text size Larger text size Text size is very large Back in 2010, when Michelle Lim Davidson was about to graduate from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), she was given advice that aspiring actors didn’t want to hear. “Agents and industry people came straight to me and said, ‘I just wanted to let you know, you’re so kind. You have talent. But you’ll never work,’” he recalls. “They’re like, ‘You’re never going to work on television, and it’s going to be really hard for you to get a job in main stage theater. They don’t hire anyone who looks like you.’ ” Michelle, who was born in Korea but raised in Australia, is left shaken and filled with self-doubt. “I asked myself, ‘What am I going to do? Why am I here?’ I just didn’t realize it would be such a problem.” But just days after his WAAPA graduation performance, he proved his doubts wrong. Among the audience of t...

Plain text size Larger text size Text size is very large Spending an afternoon with writer-director John Michael McDonagh and his editor-producer partner Lizzie Eves, you learn a few things. First, they’re great friends, his down-to-earth Aussie no-bullshit vibe is the perfect foil for his London bluff. Second, they’re big fans of drinking days. I met the couple in Sydney’s Verona cinema foyer, the day before they flew back to London after their annual visit to Australia (they spend three months here each year, mostly on the Sunshine Coast, where Eves has family). Over a beer, McDonagh told me that while they were editing their new film Forgivable at home during lockdown, “we’ll start drinking in the middle of the day and then we’ll start arguing”. “The cat’s coming around three o’clock,” Eves said, sipping a glass of white wine. “We would scream at each other and the cat would scream at us and we would scream at the...

In the winter my father died of cancer, focusing on work became very difficult. In the normal world of work, people are given mourning leave: a sign of two days to grieve and attend funerals. I need more than this to reflect and reassemble myself. I took a few weeks to slow down, think, and follow the urge to get back to basics. I spring clean my house, go for bush walks, do my own health check, and take over the dining table with a thousand-piece puzzle. After school hours, I read stories with my kids — huddle together and immerse myself in a fantasy world full of magic and solvable problems — and take them out for chai lattés. (Kids of today.) That time made me reflect a lot on my purpose, and how to spend the next part of my time on earth. The ABC Everyday perspective is all about giving you the opportunity to share what you’re going through. It is likely that others have faced the same ups and downs and life experiences. In a short paragraph, send us your offer via email...

Forced to spend their days slamming their tiny skulls into the sides of trees in search of buried pieces, woodpeckers should have developed a trick or two to avoid brain damage. So you would think. A new study of woodpecker biomechanics has cast doubt on speculation that the chisel-headed little bird avoided turning its brains to mush through a fancy shock-absorbing adaptation. On the other hand, his brain may be too small to care. “By analyzing high-speed video of three woodpecker species, we found that woodpeckers do not absorb the shock of impact with trees,” said Sam Van Wassenbergh, a biomechanics researcher from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Anyone who’s ever seen, or even just heard of, machine gun fire from the woodpecker’s signature beat will appreciate the physics involved. Snapping their heads back and forth at an astonishing 20 times per second, members of some species can experience forces of up to 1400 g. Compare that to the paltry 90 to 1...

He said the boom in international production had an unintended knock-on effect for smaller, relatively small-budget Australian-made content films that were already struggling to make, from being too expensive to attract local crews and find willing distributors and cinema operators. . to support them “long enough for the audience to find them”. “They are facing a big blockbuster with a big marketing budget; if these little no-budget Australian films don’t compete, they’ll be gone in a few weeks off screens before people can find them. Cinema operators have to make money.” Ticket to Heaven.” loading=”lazy” src=”https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.294%2C$multiply_0.4431%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_223% 2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/87ed0e8c8708fdecbc5a01aa5941777c67e75755″ height=”224″ width=”335″ srcset=”https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.294%2C$multiply_0.4431%2C$ ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$...