I’m pretty sure I hadn’t written a major triad since high school.” In the composition fraternity of the mid ’80s, this was indeed a daring move. “There was a sort of warfare going on, and I was a ...

And when I was in the US, I’d look at the flight information boards and see Miami up there and think to myself, I could do it, I could fly to Miami. I could fly back to my childhood. But I knew that I ...

He began studying Chinese at 15. In his twenties he went to study the language at one of the most prestigious universities in Beijing, Qinghua. He also used to own a bar in China. He lives in ...

These Diamond Pottery bisque-head dolls can also survive a century of being immersed in water, and their faces would still look the same." Barb points to the eyes: "Those are also original - they were ...

In an increasingly toxic online world, resistance might be less engagement with social media and more with friends and family ...

The Scott Morrison who claims that deterring boat people from ever embarking on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean ...

Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...

This is Cecil at the piano. Cecil Taylor is one of the key founders of the avant-garde free jazz movement, alongside John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler. Some consider him to be the ...

Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing that people have got going for them is imagination. At times of ...

Indonesia was barely a blip on Australia’s strategic radar until the Pacific War, when Japan seized it from the Dutch and attacked Australia from bases there. Indonesia won independence after the war ...

Child survivors of the Holocaust meet in Melbourne ...

Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night ...