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Bookmark or Share- Go Matildas! - OpenforumAsk a Matilda who their idol was growing up and many of them will cite Indigenous Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman. For many young Australians at the time, the ‘Cathy Freeman moment’ came at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, when home crowds roared her across the finish line to win the women’s 400 metres for Australia’s 100th gold medal.
- From a whisper to a scream - Openforum - OpenforumElizabeth Gask ell.. The haunted house does not need to contain a typical ghost. From Elizabeth Bowen’s The Demon Lover (1945) to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House (1959), to Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger (2009) and beyond, the complex and fraught relationships between a dwelling and its occupants have frequently engaged women writers’ imaginations.
- The rings of power - OpenforumJohn Bilmon, a Sydney-based architect with PTW, met the organisers of the Beijing 2008 Olympics at Cathy Freeman’s gold medal 400m race, and later picked up the contract to design the famous ‘Water Cube’ swimming precinct at the Beijing Games.
- Fair game: Lessons from sport for a fairer society and a stronger ...This dual nature of sport has also provided memorable markers on Australia’s reconciliation journey: the Indigenous cricket team that toured England in 1868; the success of Cathy Freeman in the 400 metres at the 2000 Sydney Olympics; Johnathan Thurston captaining the North Queensland Cowboys to their first National Rugby League (NRL ...
- Birth of the transhuman - OpenforumElon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink has reportedly placed its first silicon chip in a human brain as part of a study to help paralysed people control devices with their thoughts.
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