In December 1928, settling into village life on Manus Island, the anthropologist Margaret Mead sent a gleeful letter home to the United States via the boat that visited every three weeks. She was ...

The latest work of the American classical music superstar – famed for his subway busking experiment – is a collaboration with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra “He was a bit of a party boy,” a former ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The children left behind by Australian sex tourists in the Philippines The sky bruises at the same time each day in Angeles City. Then the rain comes. The weather is so similar – steamy heat, then ...

In March, the South Australian screenwriter had travelled to Austin, Texas. Her debut feature was playing at South by Southwest (SXSW), the music and film festival that has launched careers as well as ...