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Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...
In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family ...
When my close friend Catharine Lumby, who is also Frank Moorhouse’s biographer, called me on June 26 to say Frank had died, I wasn’t surprised. My first question was to ask if he’d died of natural ...
GetUp! (how people detest that little exclamation mark) grew slowly at first. From its initial campaign – warning Coalition senators that ordinary Australians would hold them to account after the ...
In a world where people are increasingly quick to judge, where difficult issues are reduced to binary judgements, poetry ...
I’m pretty sure I hadn’t written a major triad since high school.” In the composition fraternity of the mid ’80s, this was indeed a daring move. “There was a sort of warfare going on, and I was a ...
Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night ...
In December 1928, settling into village life on Manus Island, the anthropologist Margaret Mead sent a gleeful letter home to the United States via the boat that visited every three weeks. She was ...
I first learned of Captain Moonlite from the historian Graham Willett. In Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne, a book Willett co-edited, Moonlite features “as the bushranger most likely to qualify as ...
In March, the South Australian screenwriter had travelled to Austin, Texas. Her debut feature was playing at South by Southwest (SXSW), the music and film festival that has launched careers as well as ...
The group exhibition subtitled Exchanges with the natural world suggests contemporary Australian artists are grappling with ...