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Most Australians meet Chris Bowen on the evening news, usually in front of a solar farm or a power station. The man now running the country’s climate and energy policy grew up in Smithfield, in Western Sydney, joined the Labor Party at 15, and spent close to a decade in local government before reaching Canberra. … Read more
There’s a Parks and Recreation fan who can hear “The wooooorst” and start smiling instantly — that’s Ben Schwartz’s doing; he turned a recurring role, spread across roughly 20 episodes from 2009 to 2015, into one of the show’s most-quoted characters, then became the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog for a new generation of moviegoers. … Read more