May 9, 2018
Rainshadow’s heart of darkness
Culture
On Thea Astley and her classic novel
Chloe Hooper
By this author
April 1, 2017
Magic hands
Culture
Russian piano superstar Daniil Trifonov teaches a masterclass in Melbourne
July 1, 2017
Beyond the notes
Culture
Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar String Quartet meet some of Melbourne’s youngest musicians
June 1, 2016
Could he actually win?
Politics
On the road with Bill Shorten
May 1, 2016
Dinosaur digger
Society
Melbourne Museum’s Thomas Rich has devoted more than 30 years to Australia’s polar dinosaurs
December 1, 2015
Burning the stakeholders
Politics
Shen Narayanasamy takes on Transfield
February 1, 2014
Lives of the magnates
essay
Inside the worlds of Clive Palmer, Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Nathan Tinkler
August 1, 2013
On the road with Julia Gillard
Politics
Sketches of a prime minister in her final months
April 1, 2013
Margaret Atwood comes to Perth
Authors
Brides revisited
December 6, 2012
Notes from a Small Town
Education
Students getting into the groove
October 4, 2012
Jack’s a ripper
Melbourne Museum's bowerbird artist
February 4, 2009
Boxing for Palm Island
Society
In a bunker-like hall in Townsville a boxing ring is set up under fluorescent strip lights and 200 people – trainers, enthusiasts, pugilists past and present – sit in monsoonal heat, watching two ten-year-old Aboriginal boys punching the stuffing …
September 2, 2008
Under the rainshadow
Society
When I first travelled to Palm Island, to attend the inquest into Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody, I was venturing into Astley country. The great Thea Astley (1925-2004) had a love of the fecundity and the rot of tropical life, of small communities …