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The 2024 Kids Cover Competition

We have a winner! This year’s Kids Cover Competition received a record number of entries, and our absolute fave was designed by 12-year-old Frankie Kelly from Newcastle: a sunny, funny vision of Santa’s summer holidays. “I thought it would be really cool to combine the Australian lifestyle with Christmas, to create a scene on the beach,” she says of her stunning artwork. “I’m really into pop art and really bright and colourful pieces, and I wanted to use a few different mediums.”

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Issue #618

The Briggs Issue

It’s the BRIGGS issue! In this edition we speak with the impressive Briggs – rapper, comedy writer, The Weekly regular, activist, actor and label owner – about his new EP Always Was, new children’s book Our Home, Our Heartbeat, and how he’s breaking ground for the next generation of Indigenous artists.

“We opened up the spectrum of what Indigenous artists can be; it doesn’t always have to be one-note, solemn and remorseful, mourning and ‘we will overcome’ and the struggle – it doesn’t have to be that. After Sheplife and A.B. Original, we opened up that lane, which in turn opens up other lanes. It gave licence to a lot of people to breathe.”

Also in this edition
  • Legendary singer-songwriter Kev Carmody talks about keeping First Nations stories alive through song, ahead of the release of a revamped tribute album in his honour.
  • Gold Logie winner John Wood (Blue Heelers) talks nerd culture in the 60s, his dreams of flying and how his acting career almost stalled in high school in his Letter to My Younger Self.
  • Wildlife photographer Doug Gimesy meets the orphaned wombats who are seeing out the pandemic in an inner-city Melbourne apartment.
  • Comedian Steven Oliver (Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky) writes about his lifeblood, music – and how it’s guided him through the toughest of times
  • Writer Claire Cao explores the power and possibilities of the new Mulan remake – the Disney blockbuster heading to our small screens next month.
  • In Tastes Like Home, Clare Scrine shares her recipe for The Ultimate Vegetable Lasagne, with a special power: pumpkin bechamel sauce.

 

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Past Issues

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Dr Karl
In this edition, everyone’s favourite scientist reveals it’s not too late to stop – and even reverse – climate change.

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Dave Grohl
Long dubbed the Nice Guy of Rock, in this edition Grohl shares his Letter to My Younger Self, talking about his love of music, his mum, Kurt Cobain – and lawn maintenance.

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Dolly Parton
In this edition, the much-loved Dolly Parton  takes us on a journey through her extraordinary life in her Letter to My Younger Self

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