The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

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 ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem ...

Molly Reynolds’s beautiful documentary is a fitting tribute to David Gulpilil, at the end of his singular life ...

The posthumous collection of psychiatric summaries regarding the American writer’s tragically doomed daughter that should ...

The late Paul Reubens opens up about his life as a queer radical artist, and Michelle Williams stars in the true story of an ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on ...

In the middle of the night, in the company of “C”, an animal activist, he goes into a turkey shed to see what factory farming is like. He is distressed by the numbers of obviously sick and dead birds ...

Today, when a would-be US president, Mitt Romney, is wealthier than 99.9975% of his fellow Americans, and wealthier than the last eight presidents combined, there’s a global conversation raging about ...

A new album of beautifully tender, mildly psychedelic lo-fi songs from the Newcastle musician also known as Romy Church ...

Class sizes for practical drama courses range from 12 to 22 students. Drama is thus a rough indicator of the health of creative arts teaching in universities. Of Australia’s 37 public universities, ...