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’.

Luke Goodsell is a critic and editor who has contributed to the ABC, SBS and the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Early one morning, when he was running Three Ways Roadhouse at the lonesome junction of the Stuart and Barkly highways in the Northern Territory, Jon Jenkins strolled out to turn off his sprinklers in ...

Somebody told me that Burkhard Augustin Hase, the young German magician who has married an Australian and come to live in Melbourne, was doing a few gigs at the Butterfly Club next door to South ...

In 1967, when La Trobe University was brand new and underpopulated, John O’Brien, an Irish historian with a wild and feverish laugh, told us about the enemy within. It was not for anything the ...

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, ...

Hugh Robertson manages a record label, writes a lot and thinks about the Sydney Swans too much.

How online organisation can give power back to the people In 458 BC, with Rome facing imminent defeat by the combined forces of the Aequi and the Sabines, the Senate declared Lucius Quinctius ...

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 ...

Nicola Roxon is a Labor politician and the former attorney-general.