It’s getting closer and closer to the end of voting in the same sex marriage postal survey, but a Hunter man is rallying ‘yes’ vote supporters to give the message of equality a final push.
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Marty Adnum – head honcho at Newcastle creative and ideas agency Out of the Square – is making a short video clip to release online promoting equality and inclusivity, called Spread the Love.
He’s managed to enlist a swag of locals including artists, singers, musos and actors to help with the project, which he hopes to release next week.
But Marty wants Newcastle businesses to get on board by sending in a staff photo that shows support for marriage equality (like a couple of the shots on this page) to use for a montage in the clip.
“It’s not heavy handed, it’s just about equality and having fun. We have no desire to offend anyone,” he told Topics.
“It’s simply that it’s OK to have an equal choice.”
So get your workmates together, commandeer a camera or smart phone and snap a photo for the montage and send it to ideas@outofthesquare.com.au before 5pm on Monday.
And it should go without saying by now, but we’re going to say it anyway: if you haven’t posted your survey form yet, get cracking.
Airport staff do the emu bob
You’d be surprised what gets dropped on an airport tarmac.
A paddle and a name badge were among the things picked up during a collection on Newcastle Airport’s apron this week.
Airport staff lined up to take part in an emu bob at the Williamtown facility on Tuesday, to spruce the place up and make sure it’s as safe as possible for passengers and workers to mark Airport Safety Week.
While Topics was surprised about the items picked up in the latest collection, our jaw hit the ground when we were told that an 1897 penny and an engraved Wallabies (that’s the national rugby union team, for those of you playing at home) commemorative pen were found during previous clean-ups.
Slasher double feature
The good-old double feature is making a comeback on Halloween weekend, at the end of this month.
Horror movie aficionado (our word, not his) Dylan Weir has organised for a back-to-back run of Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street at Tower Cinemas in the city.
“We've always wanted to see these films in a cinema on the big screen to get the feeling of how it would have been for our parents’ generation in the 80s when they were first released,” he said.
“So we've decided to make it happen ourselves for this Halloween weekend and share the love with Novocastrian fans of old school slasher flicks.”
Dylan and his crew are putting on the films at their own cost, as a private screening – and say any profits will be used to pay his cat’s vet bills.
The first film kicks off at 7pm on October 28 and tickets are available for $30-a-pop at ticketbooth.com.au (search Friday the 13th & A Nightmare on Elm Street to find tickets) – but they’ll also be available at the door.
Dylan said he hoped to run more 80s movie nights if people got behind the Halloween event.
It got us thinking: what other classic 80s movies would be good to see on the big screen? Topics reckons Back to the Future II, Scarface, Ghostbusters and The Terminator would have to be right up there.
Which 1980s movie would you like to see in a cinema?
Email topics@theherald.com.au
Nick Bielby
Nick Bielby is a crime reporter who has worked as a journalist since 2011. Having joined the Newcastle Herald in 2017, he won a Walkley Award in 2019 with Donna Page for their investigation 'Dirty Deeds', which exposed the decades of illegal dumping of toxic material in and around a Hunter waterway.
Nick Bielby is a crime reporter who has worked as a journalist since 2011. Having joined the Newcastle Herald in 2017, he won a Walkley Award in 2019 with Donna Page for their investigation 'Dirty Deeds', which exposed the decades of illegal dumping of toxic material in and around a Hunter waterway.
