Role models to look up to
THERE’S a difference between being a model and being a role model, but Samantha Harris has them both covered.
In tomorrow’s edition of Weekend, in The Chronicle, meet the young indigenous achievers already making their mark on the eve of NAIDOC Week.
Harris chats about how her break into the modelling industry led her to become a role model and mentor too – a mantle she’s happily taken up.
Latrell Mitchell is another. Rugby league has produced some fine indigenous role models over the years and, despite his youth, Mitchell well understands his responsibility as a leader not just of indigenous children, but children everywhere.
The NRL star reveals the personal reason why he’s passionate about indigenous health.
Also inside, discover the festival on the French Riviera that has something for everyone – including those who don’t like festivals – in Escape.
Plus, is coffee bad for you? It’s the question coffee connoisseurs (junkies) are afraid to ask. We look at the evidence and it should make you feel better about your beloved brew.
And, Frankenstein has taken on many forms over the years, the most popular being the green giant with bolts sticking out of his neck.
But few know the real-life circumstances that inspired him, until now.
Meet Australian screenwriter Emma Jensen, the creative mind behind the period biopic Mary Shelley that depicts the love affair between poet Percy Bysse Shelley and 18-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin that resulted in Mary writing Frankenstein.
All this and more in tomorrow’s edition of Weekend in