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Standing Up for Democracy: In the 1850s, a Black man was put on trial for leading a miners’ rebellion in Australia seeking less taxation and more representation.New research shows that small groups may have survived in Tasmania. Tasmanian Tiger: Depending on whom you ask, this marsupial has either been extinct for nearly a century or is just really good at hiding.

Gallery in Melbourne until May 27, explores that question through the work of Australian designers of the 1980s, including Aslanis and Cozzolino, across Day-Glo protest posters, koala-patterned suits and spikily postmodern club furniture. “Radical Utopia: an archaeology of a creative city,” an exhibition on at the R.M.I.T.

And it would also inform a longstanding commitment to answering an at-once naïve and hugely complicated question: What is Australian design? That belief would later suffuse the work of the advertising design studio, All Australian Graffiti, founded by Aslanis and Cozzolino. “We thought that we should be learning about Australian Design.” “As eager ‘New Australians,’ we couldn’t fathom why our lecturers were teaching us Swiss Design,” he said of himself and Con Aslanis, a fellow student and a migrant of Greek descent. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne.Īs a design student in Melbourne in the 1960s, Mimmo Cozzolino, who in childhood had moved with his family to Australia from Italy, was struck by his lecturers’ preoccupation with design movements taking place on the other side of the earth. The remake has all the potential to match it.The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau.

The Channel 4 original set the bar very high. Your own personal mileage may vary a little – there are a lot of scenes where someone says, desperately: “WHERE DO I FIND IT?” and the answer is just a solemn: “Look in … Utopia” – but Utopia offers something interesting, if unnervingly prescient: a labyrinth of a story wrapped up in conspiracy, with interesting new takes on violent set pieces and a willingness to either put a bullet in a character’s brain or make them say a clever line. For something that could feasibly be pitched as “what if comics … were real?”, it really clips along. Cusack is on form as the suspicious cult-of-personality CEO Rainn Wilson is up to something in his role as “bearded scientist who nobody believes the ravings of” and there is a shadowy cabal looming large in the backdrop, known only as The Harvest. The new one isn’t really any of that but it does look really good, it’s still gleefully violent, and the story is still intricate like a clock is.īut wait, because you’re right in thinking watching four nerds read a comic you can’t see while going “That’s IT!” might be boring: there are forces of evil working hard against them.

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The original was dark and uncomfortable, a woozily ambitious series that was gone too soon. As with every US interpretation of UK original material, it replaces the stuff we do well – a certain texture, a certain subtlety, dialogue that doesn’t end in someone shouting: “YOU JUST DON’T GET IT, DO YOU?” – and replaces it with what they are good at, which is sheen and John Cusack. That jangling feeling of deja vu you have is correct: Utopia (Amazon Prime Video, Friday), is a glossy new remake of … Utopia, the Channel 4 dark comedy in the shape of a conspiracy thriller, only this time headed up by Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn. And then Utopia turns up, and … sorry, did they just shoot that person in the head?

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I mean, think about it: how many shows go entire five-season runs without introducing a single interesting character? Interesting characters on TV are rare and difficult and should be clutched closely like jewels. A delicious little pleasure of mine is when a TV show kills off an interesting character within minutes of introducing them.

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