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The Lap Pool - Characters

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Leon K
Gareth Wyntuhl - Lawyer
Sonny - crazy hippie that attacks Leon K
Janelle 'China' Mason - Wildlife Saviour
Ayeshia - Janelle's baby daughter
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The Lap Pool - Themes

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. Escaping reality
. The beauty of nature
. Feeling out of place
. The danger of nature
. Relationships
. Ageing
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The Obituary of Gina Lavelle

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Clare Wolfe is at the gym using the stationary cycle in order to lose weight for her husband. Outside she witnesses a man meeting woman who she knows is not his wife. Whilst on the cycle she reads the newspaper and finds a story about a young woman who was involved with organised crime and found herself killed. Clare Wolfe pedals faster and faster to a point where she doesn’t think she will stop.

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The Obituary of Gina Lavelle - Characters

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Clare Wolfe
Gina Lavelle (Ruby-Ann Dulch)
Gavin - Clare Wolfe’s Husband
Darren Ho - Gym proprietor

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The Obituary of Gina Lavelle - Themes

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. Youth
. Fidelity
. Beauty
. Relationship
. Sympathising with other realities
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Sea Level

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A tsunami is scheduled to hit a town and the scene is a classroom in which parents are frantically collecting their children to bring them to safety. It comes to the point where only the teacher, principal and a boy named Max remain. The tsunami warning is cancelled but both teacher and principal look at Max to realise he is the student that no one came to rescue.

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Sea Level - Characters

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Max
Mrs Morris - Teacher
Mr Lyndon - Principal

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Sea Level - Themes

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. Fear
. The danger of nature
. Abandonment

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The water person and the tree person

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Andy Melrose’s wife has recently started calling him a water person while referring to herself as a tree person. Andy Melrose isn’t sure where this idea came from. On their next holiday, Andy goes to try out a new kayak given to him by his wife, Lynne. Whilst out in the water on their holiday, however, when Andy turns to expect to see Lynne watching him kayak, he notices she is gone.

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The water person and the tree person - characters

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Andy Melrose

Lynne Melrose

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The water person and the tree person - themes

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. Relationships
. Nature
. Water
. One's own reality
. Disconnection
. False reality
. Routine
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The whale watchers

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Toms father comes to have a honeymoon with his new wife at Toms town. As an activity Tom decides to take his father and his wife to go whale watching with Toms girlfriend. The time spent whale watching is disappointing as Toms father does not show any interest and is very grumpy. In the end Toms father takes his wife and leaves for their hotel.

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The whale watchers - characters

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Tom
Toms father
Sonia - Toms fathers wife
Chloe - Toms girlfriend
Shoshani - the waitress that serves them
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The whale watchers - themes

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. Parental figures
. Romantic relationships
. Ones own reality
. Selfishness
. Nature and animals
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Stones like hearts

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A woman goes to the beach with her daughter to throw away her old wedding ring from her now ex-husband who she discovered to be cheating on her after finding he had taken an interest in horoscopes; something she knew he hated. It is here she finds a corpse and fails to protect her daughter from seeing the tragedy. She ends up keeping the ring in the shock.

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Stones like hearts - characters

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Brigid
Imogen - Brigid’s daughter
Max - Brigid’s ex husband
The Aquarian Mermaid (Tracy) - Max’s lover

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Stones like hearts - themes

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. Love
. Infidelity
. Ones own reality
. Deceit
. Midlife crisis
. Nature
. Shock
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The aquarium at night

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After getting caught for the possession of drugs, surfer Pablo Dyson is sent to prison in England where he falls for a counsellor/teacher. He ends up standing up for her against a group of skinheads in a way of showing his love for her. Pablo then calls his lawyer and asks to plead guilty.

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The aquarium at night - characters

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Pablo Dyson
Ms Shehabe - teacher/counsellor
Oswald - acts as Mr Shehabe’s father
Klaus and Jason - skinheads

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The aquarium at night - themes

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. Displacement (fish out of water)
. Romance
. Unrealistic expectations
. Fear

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Masculine shoes

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Tyler Foss is a Californian location finder who works to find movie and advertisement locations. While on an Australian island for research, he encounters a crew creating a commercial involving the ‘Octopus Stylist’, a young woman with bright coloured hair and vivacious personality. Tyler gets to know the octopus stylist at a number of crew parties until becoming trapped by a group of dingoes on the island. He is forced to sacrifice his animal skin shoes in order to escape.

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Masculine shoes - characters

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. Tyler Foss

. The Octopus Stylist (Mia McKenzie)

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Masculine shoes - themes

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. Displacement (fish out of water)
. Midlife crisis
. The dangers of nature
. Romance and relationships
. Disconnection with nature
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The Lap Pool

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Leon K has committed fraud in a large corporation in Sydney by embezzling a substantial amount of money. As a result his wife and children have left him. He now lives alone in the country escaping from his crimes in a regular swim in his pool, time which is sometime interrupted by his lawyer to speak of business matter which he detests.
He then finds a snake in the pool and calls a wildlife volunteer to take care of it. He feels a sense of chemistry with her until she leaves. He then swims in the pool again only to be bitten by another snake. He calls the wildlife volunteer in his panic.

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The cartoonist

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Adam moves with his divorced mother to live on the seaside. He is a young boy of about 15 that has demonstrated a keen interest in drawing cartoons with comical expression on his face. He has a non eventful first day at school only to come home and find his mother having sex with a strange man. He slips a sexual cartoon under the doorway for her to see.

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The cartoonist - characters

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Adam
The mother
The strange man
The truck driver with the pigs

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The cartoonist - themes

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. Displacement (fish out of water)
. Innocence
. Coming of age
. Ones own reality (the mother)
. Sexuality
. Modes of expression
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How to kill a cane toad

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Dan moves in with his wife Janine to a new home in the country and hears gunshots outside late at night only to find that it is one of their crazy farmer neighbours, an old man named Mango Ken for his mango farm. He regularly goes out at night to shoot at bats. After having dinner with Mango Ken and his wife Dan is told the best way to kill a pest in their farm, cane toads, is by squirting them with Dettol. It is later learned that Mango Ken is killed in a car accident whilst Dan begins to obsess over cane toad killing. The night after Kens death his wife is heard shooting into the sky at his legacy.

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How to kill a cane toad - character

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Dan
Janine - dans wife
Mango Ken (Ken Riddell)
Elaine - Kens wife

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How to kill a cane toad - themes

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. Life and death (mortality)
. Displacement
. Midlife crisis
. War against nature

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The rip

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A divorced man is walking along the beach with his younger daughter. It is during this time he sees an elderly couple filming one another in the water. The woman falls into the water and is carried by the rip. The divorced man dives in to save her. When he returns he finds his daughter has run away. When he looks for her he discovers she is gone.

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The rip - characters

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John Bingham (the man)
Sophie - Binghams daughter
The fat couple (Beverley and her husband)

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The rip - themes

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. Separation
. Ones own reality
. Mortality (life and death)
. War against nature
. Beauty of nature
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The life alignment of a coffee grower

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Eric Callahan is angry after his wife left him to go on a spiritual journey with a young hippie. He contemplates killing the hippie. Eric eventually finds a new girlfriend who disapproves of his pet carpet Python but whom Eric likes anyway. As she makes his life better the government threatens to take down a large property of land for growing. Eric decides to protest and finds his ex wife’s hippie lover in the protest also.

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The life alignment of the coffee grower - characters

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Eric Callahan
Jeannie - Eric's ex wife
Sargasso - Jeannie's new lover
Desiree - Eric's new girlfriend
Doug - Eric's carpet python
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The life alignment of the coffee grower - themes

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. Midlife
. Separation
. Being at peace with nature
. Intertwining of relationships

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