3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1324+ words) Jon Ronson’s new book on the masculinity crisis was sparked by his son’s strange journey to a castle in upstate New York and a series of late-night text messages....

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (600+ words) Economists say the theatre sector struggles from something called a ‘cost disease’. But what does that mean? And why is it so hard to fix?...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (917+ words) The National Gallery of Victoria’s Margaret Preston is a breathtaking exhibition. It is Preston as we have never seen her before, and challenges many earlier preconceptions. We see her work in the context of her students/lovers, Bessie Gibson and…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (826+ words) Kicking off the Brisbane Festival, Suzie Miller’s new play Strong is the New Pretty celebrates the blood, sweat and tears that helped create the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) competition. The world premiere at Brisbane’s Playhouse theatre captivated the audience…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1335+ words) Lesbia Harford knew she would die young but became a revolutionary all the same. She loved both women and men, capturing the dizzying confusion of a violent time....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (852+ words) The ABC’s Indigenous department has given Australia some of its best television. Not simply its best “Indigenous television”, but some of the sharpest, funniest and most ambitious programs made in this country. Now, after 40 years, Lamestream reports the department is…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (850+ words) The new documentary Tina Arena: Unravel Me celebrates the groundbreaking Australian performer’s 50 year career and gives an insight into the person behind the music, awards and accolades including an Order of Australia, the French National Order of Merit and the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (851+ words) Seven Little Australians was a bestseller on publication. Its vibrant, social-mores-smashing heroine, Judy, has influenced generations of literary rebels since....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (628+ words) When the trailer for SBS’s new drama The Airport Chaplain was released, it looked too good to be true: national treasure Hugo Weaving, rising star Shabana Azeez, and an endearing conceptual combination of The Terminal meets Border Security. Fortunately, the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (887+ words) Ruth Park’s classic asks us to inhabit the past as a real place – just as 14-year-old Abigail does, when she’s transported from 1980 to 1873, in Sydney’s The Rocks....