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It’s tempting to think Pauline Hanson chose Malcolm Roberts because he looks like a puppet. Barely five feet tall, One Nation’s second senator for Queensland perches beside me on a Parliament House ...
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 ...
Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s breakthrough film stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a story of lesbian fertility ...
Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night rolls around fast, so before you know it you’re back there checking them out ...
An oral history of the Warwick & Joanne Capper ‘Penthouse’ shoot Like the 1960s, the 1990s were a break-out period for sexuality in pop culture. Basic Instinct, topless Calvin Klein ads and widespread ...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy ...
There is a persistent quote that stalks all music writers. Its provenance is disputed – Thelonius Monk? Clara Schumann? Laurie Anderson? Elvis Costello? – but it is widely held to settle everything: ...
One hot afternoon in February 2014, in the pleasant Victorian township of Tyabb, south-east of Melbourne, an 11-year-old boy called Luke Batty was playing in the nets after cricket practice with his ...
When I did my first movie,” says Joel Edgerton, “when I did Praise I thought, ‘This is it.’ Actually, even before that! My first-ever job was playing Ben Mendelsohn’s little brother in an episode of ...
Luke Beesley is a poet and singer-songwriter. His latest book is In the Photograph.
Despite more than 25 years of anti-discrimination legislation, it remains the case that the higher up any organisational ladder you look, the fewer women you see. In Australia, for example, women made ...