We sat in a car park in her Northern Beaches suburb, down the road from her house and not far from the bottle shop where she works at her day job. She’s also studying nursing ‘in case music doesn’t work out’. I talked with Arielle (TikTok: @ariellevs), a...
We sat in a car park in her Northern Beaches suburb, down the road from her house and not far from the bottle shop where she works at her day job. She’s also studying nursing ‘in case music doesn’t work out’. I talked with Arielle (TikTok: @ariellevs), a...
You’re told it’s simple: receive good grades in high school, get into a top university, land the dream job. Before you know it, you’re clinking glasses with your colleagues who got here the same way you did – hard work. We want to believe that the school-to-career pathway...
December seems to be when people stop paying attention. Spotify Wrapped drops, everyone shares their top songs and artists, and the year feels done. But while the internet was busy reminiscing, we were paying attention. Our underground hip-hop and R&B scene didn’t let us down, and some...
Melbourne is finally catching on to the tropical magic of Mauritius. What started as a quiet hum of flavours from the Indian Ocean has grown into a proud chorus, pulling strangers together at tables across the city and turning curiosity into connection. Mauritian cuisine isn’t just delicious. It’s...
In the more than two years since Australia legalised MDMA and psilocybin for therapeutic use, in tightly controlled clinical settings, our revolutionary healthcare promise seems to be delivering only for the wealthy elite. On paper, authorised psychiatrists can prescribe these drugs for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and for treatment-resistant depression...
I neatly fold my wonton skin in half to form a triangle before bending the far corners towards each other like a fortune cookie and sealing the join with a dab of water. It’s a perfect diamond shape. My mum, on the other hand, plops the pork mince in...