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The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a ...
Lena Dunham’s new rom-com series mines her life with her British musician husband, but the fun and froth gives way to an ...
Max Ogden is a lifelong unionist, including a career as an industrial officer at the ACTU between 1988 and 2000. He is the author of Long View From the Left.
Kevin Macdonald’s documentary inadvertently downplays Houston’s impact on pop music history There’s a piece of handycam footage in Kevin Macdonald’s new documentary, Whitney, that gives the film, ...
‘Mira Gojak / Elizabeth Newman’ illustrates the possibilities for curated shows in commercial galleries The curated exhibition is often seen as the domain of the non-commercial gallery or large-scale ...
How the COVID-19 crisis could be catastrophic for Australia’s already vulnerable arts sector The global coronavirus pandemic is escalating so rapidly that an observation made in the morning is likely ...
The NSW Liberal Party has long been a cesspit of factional power games, with Tony Abbott’s hard right, Scott Morrison’s centre right, and the moderates, whose high-profile ranks have included Malcolm ...
The Colour of Memory, an exhibition a decade after the Aboriginal artist’s passing, highlights her use of thick bright ...
The anniversary of Peter Carey’s Booker-winning masterpiece prompts a revisit of the literature and cinema telling the most ...
From the very beginning of the SBS series The Hunting the world it presents is mediated by a screen. We are introduced to a girl (Zoe) chatting with a boy (Andy) online. She looks at him but by design ...
I re-watched Whiplash the other day. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a terrific, morally indefensible movie about a music teacher who pushes a young jazz drummer to greatness. Its unusual central message ...