Rachel Perkins is a director, writer and founder of Blackfella Films. She leads a foundation that is recording languages and songlines through the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Patrick McCaughey is a former director of the National Gallery of Victoria and has published widely on Australian art.

Kim Mahood is the author of Craft for a Dry Lake, Position Doubtful and the essay ‘Kartiya Are Like Toyotas: White Workers on Australia’s Cultural Frontier’.

For Paddy Bedford, the day usually began soon after dawn. Tony Oliver, a former Melbourne gallerist who had worked alongside Bedford for close to a decade since arriving in the East Kimberley in 1998, ...

I am appalled, but not surprised, by Don Watson’s revelations (‘A New Dusk’, August). Years ago, when New South Wales decided to abolish selective high schools, the late Justice Frank Hutley wrote ...

2. Keep your eyes closed. 3. Turn your head to the left. 4. Say a prayer. 5. Open your eyes. 6. Stare at the empty space on the bed next to you. 7. Accept that she is still gone. 8. Close your eyes. 9 ...

Sir Eugene Goossens was a man who liked a little magic in his life. Sex magic, to be specific. Goossens was a world-famous conductor and composer, a friend of Picasso and Stravinsky. “My heart just ...

In the lead-up to a federal election, the Labor Opposition leader is shot at point-blank range as he leaves a rowdy public meeting. The bullet, fired from a sawn-off rifle, shatters the window of his ...

Polly Borland contemporary artist whose practice has seen her expand and trouble the portraiture genre. She lives in Los Angeles.

He then used these new mechanisms to pursue the ABC for many, many months, and in no less than three separate inquiries, over the supposed bias in AM’s coverage of the early stages of the invasion of ...

Julian Morrow is a comedian, writer, television producer and broadcaster. He is a co-founder of the Chaser comedy team and the executive producer of The Hamster Wheel.

From his days in a boys’ home to co-founding Australia’s first Indigenous theatre group, Jack Charles has been up and ...