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Sam Neill and Teresa Palmer in Ride Like a Girl




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Ride Like a Girl sports a classic underdog tale, but isn't necessarily an instant classic film

Ride Like a Girl's real strength is it never lets anything get in the way of telling the superb true story at its heart.





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Corruption risk likely faced by 'most, if not all' Vic councils, watchdog finds, amid calls for more scrutiny

A ratepayers advocacy group says a damning report into the risk of corruption within local government in Victoria highlights the need for greater scrutiny of regional councils.






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Victorian pork producer wary of African swine fever but butcher says local consumers not concerned

The green hills of south-west Victoria couldn't be further from the latest outbreak of the highly contagious viral disease African swine fever (ASF) in Timor-Leste, but pork producer Xavier Meade isn't taking any chances.




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Montague Street Bridge crash bus driver Jack Aston wins appeal against convictions

A judge overturns the convictions of a bus driver who crashed into the Montague Street Bridge in South Melbourne, injuring six people. But Jack Aston will remain in prison while he is assessed for a community corrections order for lesser charges.




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Montague Street Bridge bus driver Jack Aston freed from jail after appeal

A bus driver jailed for seriously injuring six passengers when he crashed into South Melbourne's Montague Street Bridge in 2016 is released after an appeal.




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Paul Preusker, trainer of Cup favourite Surprise Baby, says he knows how Darren Weir feels

Twelve years ago Paul Preusker was disqualified for possessing an electronic jigger. Now he's back, training the Melbourne Cup favourite and insisting he's a changed man.





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A new trademark for all-Australian wool and fibre




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Small-scale wool makers launch new trademark to recognise 100 per cent Australian-produced fibre

A group of wool makers launches a new trademark to recognise textile producers whose homegrown fibre is 100 per cent Australian from the farm right through to the finished product.





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Big buzz about bees: More young people turn to backyard beekeeping

Backyard beekeeping is abuzz with popularity with long waitlists to own a hive in some parts of Victoria.





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Cox Plate: Kings Will Dream returns to Moonee Valley just 12 months after fracturing pelvis

After fracturing his pelvis and nearly bleeding out after last year's Cox Plate, Kings Will Dream is set to write another chapter in an unbelievable comeback story at Moonee Valley, during a fortnight of intense scrutiny over the treatment of horses within the racing industry.




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Driver Lorraine Nicholson realised four women killed in Navarre crash were 'probably grandmothers' as well, court hears

A jury hears of the moment the woman accused of causing a crash that killed four people in western Victoria realised the deceased were "probably grandmothers" as well.









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75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking

Paul Levitz




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The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace.

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader




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Eric Koo's visual diary of the Gold Coast

The familiar and nostalgic, philosophical and witty candour are all alive in this documentation of Gold Coast beaches



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The Rascally Cake by Jeanne Willis and Korky Paul

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader





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Review: 'The Promise of Iceland' by Kari Gislason

Kari Gislason concedes it would have been very easy to write a sad memoir about his relationship with his dad - but he made a concerted effort not to go down that track.



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Coast FM Book Club Review: An Outback Life by Mary Groves

Author Mary Groves has lived the great outback dream and knows how tough it can be.



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Weekend Bookworm: Born to Run

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader




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Kursk: The Greatest Battle by Lloyd Clark

Rob Minshull is an avid reader, and the producer of Weekends with Warren Boland.




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Ella Kazoo will NOT brush her hair by Lee Fox and Cathy Wilcox

Rob Minshull is an avid reader, and the producer of Weekends with Warren Boland




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Review: Kimberley Freeman's 'Wildflower Hill'

Award winning children's writer Kim Wilkins assumes a pseudonym as she turns her hand to 'chick literature' with Wildflower Hill.



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Review: Ramona Koval's 'Speaking Volumes'

Rare insights into leading authors with Radio National's Ramona Koval.



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Killing for the Company by Chris Ryan

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.




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Weekend Bookworm: The Retribution by Val McDermid

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader




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Spirit House by Mark Dapin

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader





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Review: 'Surfari' by Tim Baker

Tim Baker



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Review: 'Silent Fear' by Katherine Howell

Katherine Howell



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The Left Hand of Darkness

A classic of the genre that only lightly shows its age, this novel is more an essay in speculative Anthropology than Science fiction per se.





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Review: 'The Raven's Heart' by Jesse Blackadder

Jesse Blackadder



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