Arts & Culture
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Shoeshops, tailors, TV repairs: a photographic homage to Melbourne’s vanishing small businesses is a form of time travel
Small Business, his new book of photographs, transports us to Melbourne’s vanishing architecture of interior workplaces created by largely working-class,…
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The man who wouldn’t be king
The groom barely stole a glance as they walked up the aisle. Yasmin Jeffery & Sarah Motherwell ABC News An…
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Design makes a place a prison or a home.
The Royal Commission into Aged Care left organisations that provide housing for aged care wondering how they will put its…
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How to unlock music as key to the art of remembering
During that time, people have regularly approached with me a similar set of befuddling stories and questions. Lisa Genove The…
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Inner Light: The children surviving conflict in DR Congo
Photographer Hugh Kinsella Cunningham has travelled across the north-eastern province of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with Save…
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Easter promise: the patisserie built on a friendship that bridges Istanbul’s divides
Fehmi Yıldıran remembers how, growing up in the Anatolian town of Bolu, every spring he and the other children used…
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Art helps veterans and first responders heal from post-traumatic stress and depression
“My vehicle rolled 175 metres down a mountain and my partner and I are extremely lucky to be alive,” she…
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Zaha Hadid: even more than her buildings, it’s her mind that left its mark
Thinking about what she started, though, is more instructive. Lakshmi Priya Rajendran The Conversation Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950,…
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The Father movie review: Superb, low-key film captures the profound heartache of ageing
The Father is not flashy. Wenlei Ma news.com.au It doesn’t have gunfights, a rousing monologue or an epic historical ……
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Christianity has touched Australian law more deeply than we admit
How far does a person’s faith shape their professional life? Michael Pelly Financial Review And when it comes to politics…
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A song dedicated to the memory of Don Giuseppe
Don Giuseppe-Α. Ζένιος, Μ. Κωστράκη, Σ. Σιόλας, Ε. Τσαλιγοπούλου, Μ. Φάμελλος | Χ. Σταμούλης-Π. Θωμά – YouTube Performed by: Andreas…
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Music streaming: listening to playlists drives down the revenue of smaller artists
That’s not the case on music streaming platforms, where artists aren’t paid a fixed fee when you stream their songs…
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After a year of digital learning and virtual teaching, let’s hear it for the joy of real books
More surprising, perhaps, is the impact these lockdowns have had on children’s and young people’s self-reported enjoyment of books and…
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Revealed: police barred from searching Queen’s estates for looted artefacts
Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a…
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Australia’s education system must move away from its colonial world view
Nothing is more important for the future of society than our jarjums (children). Nathan Towney for IndigenousX The Guardian Their…
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‘Music is a way of reclaiming time’: Behrouz Boochani’s lauded memoir becomes a poetic musical event
A little blond girl plays in the shallows at Christmas Island, oblivious to a tugboat filled with exhausted refugees pulling…
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