Actor and theatre director John Bell spoke of how vital Loudon Sainthill's work was in his own artistic journey, in this speech delivered at the launch of Fantasy Modern: Loudon Sainthill’s theatre of art and life, available now from NewSouth.
The university sector around the world is facing significant challenges. Political, cultural, economic and technological factors have created an environment that requires each university to rethink strategic directions at many levels, including how the institution is managed, how teaching is delivered, where sustainable funding sources can be found and what ...
The rapid rise of the Australian pastime of surf bathing, which began on Sydney’s beaches and spread north and south, was revolutionary. The beaches were free in the way that baths were not and much was made of their democratic origins. They became places where social codes of decorum ...
Human imagination is a fertile but misleading tool in assessing real-life dangers and judging the likelihood of impending risks. The 9/11 commission once famously stated that the tragedy was due, in part, to ‘a failure of imagination’. But historical experience also warns of blind spots and ...
The best photos do more than freeze time. They capture a moment and take us there, making witnesses of us all. Here lies their power to inspire, touch and transform. A power tied to the stories, hopes, dreams and struggles that shape our lives. The image of the Indigenous AFL ...
'Science is not just about gadgets and technological solutions. It is about interest and wonder; it is about stories.'
The small Australian city of Ballarat is a gold rush town that was built on the boom of the mid-1800s. It is a deeply conservative place, divided down the middle between those with money and those without. Rural, semi-rural and urban in one – it is middle Australia. In Ballarat, beneath ...
It was the razor gangs who brought light to Kings Cross. By the end of the 1920s the Cross may have been described as Sydney’s Montmartre, but its reputation was also that of a wicked dark place festering with crime. John Milton wrote, ‘When night darkens the streets, then ...
Antonia and I met in 1995, overseas. Soon she moved to Paris and I to New York, but we stayed in touch through our peregrinations over the next decade. Every Christmas, a beautifully illustrated card, or calendar, or series of city illustrations would land in my mailbox from Ant, always ...
