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The Australian Nationals used to be a tour de force in Australian politics. They gave us multiple Prime Ministers and governed Queensland for 32 years straight, most notably under Joh…
Hemingway rewrote the ending of A Farewell to Arms forty times. He considered happy endings, sad endings, and finally published a tragically evocative, bloody, devastating finale which consolidates everything he…
Question: How much is our national identity worth? Or rather, how susceptible are ‘Australian values’ to serious examination? Sorry if these questions are vague or flimsy, but then again, Australians…
Grandpa Swift Rigby (b. 1879) Old Swifty was the oldest known Pelican Editor, serving from 1902 to 1925 in the only autocratic kingship in Pelican History. Widely regarded as a…
We’re all familiar with Grindr by now, the infamous hookup app that encompasses the vast panorama of Perth’s comically underwhelming queer scene. From the naïve 18-year-old who still believes in…
It’s a relentless, exhausting story of revenge and survival, elevated beyond mere tropes by the expert cinematography and editing of Emmanuel Lubezki and Stephen Mirrione (both of whom worked on…
Following the midnight screening of The Force Awakens on Thursday, Pelican approached a group of moderate to Sebulba shirt-wearing Star Wars fans to participate in a roundtable discussion on their…
Ballet is defined as an artistic dance performed to music, using precise and highly formalised set steps and gestures. I know this because I googled it in the über on…
2015 was without question, a shithouse year. I write this in its closing weeks and at this stage it looks like we’re going to reach the new year with neo-fascistic…
Hey look the Stormtroopers learned to aim, maybe it’s because their new helmets have eye holes in the right place Jakku may be even more of a shithole than Tatooine…