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Dr Jeni Haynes lives with dissociative identity disorder, and is the subject of the compelling new SBS-screened documentary We Are Jeni. A middle-aged woman wearing a floral dress and glasses sits on a chaise lounge next to a small brown dog.
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We Are Jeni review: a compelling documentary about Dr Jeni Haynes and her ‘alters’

Dr Jeni Haynes lives with dissociative identity disorder and 2682 people inside her mind.

Roland (Leon Ford) with Beattie and Samantha (Celia Pacquola) with Pamelia in Dog Park. The main characters and their dogs in a still from the TV series.
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Dog Park review: lukewarm dramedy never pulls hard on the lead

Leon Ford and Celia Pacquola star in the new ABC dramedy Dog Park.

The Weekly's host, Charlie Pickering. A middle aged, fair-skinned man wearing a suit and tie, raises a tea cup from its saucer and looms glumly and sardonically at the camera.
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The Weekly review: toothless satire lacks bite

Hosted by Charlie Pickering, The Weekly aims for the lowest hanging targets, and even then its marksmanship is lacking.

Homeowners Nicky and Eric in Grand Designs Transformations. Image: ABC.
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Grand Designs Transformations review: reliably entertaining viewing

The new season of Grand Designs Transformations delivers a fresh crop of ambitious renovations.

Lila McGuire as Evonne Goolagong in the ABC TV series Goolagong. A young Aboriginal woman in tennis whites is pictured mid-action on a tennis court, her bat raised.
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Goolagong review: thoughtful series avoids sports biopic clichés

Lila McGuire plays Australian Aboriginal tennis champion Evonne Goolagong in this new three-part ABC bio-series.

Rachel Griffiths and Ben Quilty in When the War Is Over. Image: ABC.
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When the War Is Over review: a well-meaning but stolid take on art about war

The ambitious series When the War Is Over asks how art helps us make sense of war, but it spends…

L-R: Hunter Page-Lochard and Tasma Walton in 'Reckless'. The photo depicts two First Nations actors, one male with a closely trimmed beard, the other female and wearing a red jacket with a black and white scarf tied around her neck. They are sitting side by side in the front seat of a car at night, with the male actor behind the steering wheel. He looks deeply worried, she looks intently into the rear view mirror, as if she is thinking furiously.
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Reckless review: the best Australian comedy of the year

Directed by Beck Cole and starring the magnificent Tasma Walton and Hunter Page-Lochard, this First Nations-led dark comedy crime caper…

Ghosts Australia. Image: 10 / Paramount+.
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Ghosts Australia review: lightweight dramedy is slow to launch

Local remake Ghosts Australia is setting up to be a solid dramedy, though so far it's no riot of laughs.

Professor Anthony Burke presents season 12 of Grand Designs Australia. Image: ABC
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Grand Designs Australia Season 12 review: stunning builds and stunning downfalls

Grand Designs Australia brings us a fresh batch of deluded hopefuls on a pathway to disaster.

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Stuff the British Stole – Season 2, ABC review

Marc Fennell's ABC documentary series Stuff the British Stole, about where the world's treasures belong, is spot-on.

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