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Dean Sewell is an award-winning documentary photographer based in Sydney who concentrates his gaze on the social implications of the new globalised world economy and the environmental consequences of ...
Max Costello was a WorkSafe Victoria prosecuting solicitor and RMIT Employment Law lecturer. He co-wrote submissions to the 2014 Moss review and the 2015 Senate Select Committee on Nauru abuses.
Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...
Tim Lyons is a research fellow at progressive think-tank Per Capita, and a former ACTU Assistant Secretary.
Since Mia’s death, Rosie Ayliffe campaigns for change to the Australian visa requirement of 88 days of farmwork and an end to exploitative, dangerous practices.
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 ...
Christian McCrea is a writer and lecturer at RMIT University. He writes and speaks on digital culture, games, film and higher education.
Mary Norris began working at The New Yorker in 1978, and has been a query proofreader at the magazine since 1993.
Music writing can also be lovely and fascinating, though too often it is not. In his Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion, the American pianist and musicologist Charles Rosen describes some of ...
That’s when I first heard the Gaza Strips. It says something of these four young men and one woman that their eponymous debut album announces itself with the left-right-left knockout punches of those ...
Of course, Turnbull’s statement is not a historical proposition at all, but a claim about the mood best suited to the times we live in. “We have to be optimists,” Turnbull told David Koch on Sunrise ...
He now subverts Australia’s climate policy as a champion of coal. And if coal didn’t exist, he would find other grounds. His arguments are only ever the path to a pre-determined position that there be ...