Friends of Charlene: The Angelic Engineering of Kylie Minogue - by Jonno Revanche
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Friends of Charlene: The Angelic Engineering of Kylie Minogue - by Jonno Revanche

In 2010, at the behest of absolutely no one, Kylie Minogue decided to become an angel. In the music video for ‘All the Lovers’, Kylie was lifted up on the shoulders of a scantily clad flesh army, an architectural flash mob and assemblage fantasy brought to life by director Joseph Kahn … Her dutiful gays scurried to meet her as if by a wordless summoning. Her hair billowed behind her, her torso wrapped in Jean Paul Gaultier, those white-banded leather lines crisscrossing her like wings as she conducted the crowds below. She is exactly how we perceive goodness: luminescent (and with an expensive wig!) …

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Horse People - by Hollen Singleton
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Horse People - by Hollen Singleton

‘You see that horse there,’ the veterinarian said to me, hushed. ‘That’s Makybe Diva.’ No, it’s not, I thought. Just because I wasn’t one of them, just because I was a townie who didn’t know how to ride, didn’t mean they could mess with me …

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Boom and Bust in the Gaiety - by Gabrielle Lis
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Boom and Bust in the Gaiety - by Gabrielle Lis

Zeehan, Tasmania
On Main Street stands the Gaiety Theatre, a grand old building painted in ice-cream parlour pastels: mint green, vanilla cream, pale strawberry, frosted boysenberry. Locals will tell you Houdini performed there, walked a tightrope from the roof across to a nearby hotel …

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Trove - by Jeanette M Thompson
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Trove - by Jeanette M Thompson

Rowella, Tasmania
The villages of the West Tamar municipality dot the shore, like a string of pearls, from Launceston to the sea. We thought this valley was Australia’s best-kept secret when we discovered it …

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