1 in 9 Australians live with asthma. Despite its ubiquity, more than a quarter of asthma sufferers say they feel uncomfortable using their puffer in public and half feel their workplace does not view asthma as a valid reason to take sick leave or are unsure. Asthma Australia General Manager Nigel Cooper spoke with Hear and There presenter Nathan Reynolds
Read moreBEST MEDICINE – today 13/9/22 – Men’s health with Alan White; plus more. Please join me, Gaytana ALSO: the AMA Vic is asking us to wear a mask to protect ourselves and OTHERS from COVID. Looking out for each other – that’s what community does. G
Read moreDespite being directed by the revered George Miller, containing some inspired and quite startling moments and starring two of Hollywood’s most respected actors, Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, the oddball romantic fantasy and storytelling tribute, 3,000 Years Of Longing doesn’t entirely work. The title sounds like a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel but George Miller and Augusta Gore wrote the film’s
Read moreThe charmingly named Orphan: First Kill is the prequel to the reasonably tense and creepy 2009 psycho-child slasher flick, Orphan. Like that film, this one effectively plays on the unnerving juxtaposition of the central fiend’s sweet-looking, child-like appearance and brutal, murderous tendencies. The film reacquaints us with the diabolical orphan Esther (Isabelle Fuhrmann) who, as the first film revealed and
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This one was for Betty ! Come listen to this week’s podcast. As always, John leads you eclectically and diversely through a topical theme in his Take 5 section, and takes us out with 3 in a row to help us reflect on RUOK Day…Oh yes, and of course.. he has a dad joke pun … as usual ? This week’s “Community
Read moreThe ‘man versus nature’ horror/action film is one of the dodgier movie sub-genres. Casting an animal as a villain simply because it doesn’t welcome, or sees as food, a human who has intruded on its habitat is a little too human centric. Still, some films of this type have worked, the best example being Jaws because it reached beyond the
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