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Revisiting The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s gift to his wife Marilyn Monroe, which roped in Hollywood’s fading luminaries for a ...
It’s tempting to think Pauline Hanson chose Malcolm Roberts because he looks like a puppet. Barely five feet tall, One Nation’s second senator for Queensland perches beside me on a Parliament House ...
The Scott Morrison who claims that deterring boat people from ever embarking on the hazardous journey across the Indian Ocean ...
Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing that people have got going for them is imagination. At times of ...
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 ...
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a persuasive reminder that the US has always been a less than perfect democracy ...
Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s breakthrough film stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a story of lesbian fertility ...
No sane politician, let alone prime minister, is going to invite an encore. For this reason, various Labor strategists are starting to worry about the simmering feud between Kevin Rudd and the Murdoch ...
Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history ...
An oral history of the Warwick & Joanne Capper ‘Penthouse’ shoot Like the 1960s, the 1990s were a break-out period for sexuality in pop culture. Basic Instinct, topless Calvin Klein ads and widespread ...
Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, has on his shelves a copy of Microcosmographia Academica, the classic university satire, written by the University of Cambridge scholar ...