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• Glad I went with ominous drumbeats as the beckoning call, all four players looking upon the game with wonder and dread. Woodwinds/sitars would have been a mistake.

• Game instructions clear enough to be understood by players, vaguely threatening enough to unnerve them. Struck a great balance there.

• Two youngest players mystified by the enchanted game tokens. An excellent sign, as I’ll be pitching Jumanji as a game for wayward youths looking to escape the tedium of their daily lives / learn a few things the hard way.

• Turn up sadism levels in monkeys. Antics are WAY too on the playful side. Don’t be afraid to go overboard here either. I’d rather have them throwing knives and stealing police cars than—Jesus—tickling each other.

• Giant flesh-eating plants went smoothly. Creeped into the room through the ceiling and power outlets, went straight for the weakest player, players fought back with fireplace tools / wept uncontrollably.

Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures

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Learning sign language made my face more expressive – and changed how I interact with people in general

- by Hannah Seo

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Traditional and tech-based methods can reveal what your practice is doing – and give you the confidence to stick with it

- by Matt Fuchs

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Anthony Albanese invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit in the hope of boosting support for Israel. Instead mass protests, and anger at police violence in Sydney, showed the continuing depth of opposition to the genocidal state.

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In the wake of the Bondi attack, governments are attempting to repress the Palestine movement, with anti-protest laws, federal hate crime laws and plans to ban chants such as “Globalise the Intifada”. The experience of activists at the University of Melbourne, mobilising hundreds to face down threats of police and academic sanctions, provide a rich […]

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The Liberals have a new leader. But they’re still stuck with their old problems—and Angus Taylor isn’t going to dig them out of a deep hole.

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The Reserve Bank pushed interest rates back up in February, as workers face a new cost-of-living shock.

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Violence against protests is not the result of rogue officers. It is part of the basic role of the police.

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Tens of thousands of dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean shut down 21 major ports in a co-ordinated day of strike action in support of Palestine on 6 February.

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While Israel continues to massacre Palestinians in Gaza during the so-called “ceasefire”, at times killing over 20 people a day, it is also stepping up the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.

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The Epstein files expose the corruption and depravity of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

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Trump’s ICE agents have unleashed an orgy of racist violence in Minneapolis, but also faced a city in virtual uprising against them, writes James Supple

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The expansion of US bases here locks Australia in as a key part of the US’s military machine, and its strategy for war with China, writes Tom Fiebig

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Ian Rintoul looks at the campaign of defiance that ended Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s ban on street marches in Queensland and draws lessons for the Palestine movement today

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