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Australia Day 2017: what our screen heroes tell us about ourselves
Cross-dressing aside, our archetypal hero remains, fundamentally, a good bloke.
Stephanie Bunbury joined Fairfax after studying fine arts and film at university, but soon discovered her inner backpacker and obeyed that call. She has spent the past two decades flitting between Europe and Australia, writing about film, culture high and low and the arts.
Cross-dressing aside, our archetypal hero remains, fundamentally, a good bloke.
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When Le Patin Libre started thinking about doing something a bit more radical on ice than a pirouette, they first asked themselves why they skated at all.
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