Our ethnic face
The Australia of Pauline Hanson’s second parliamentary term looks very different to the Australia of her first
In light of recent events
Women's rightful places
Watching women in daggy footy shorts run around during the inaugural season of the AFL women’s league required very little getting used to. In just a few months it’s become so normal that I’m embarrassed to explain to my daughters, aged 8 and 11, why the league hasn’t been around since, like, forever. But, because I am such an amazingly progressive, switched-on, feminist dad, I asked them what we should fix next. What other “mostly men stuff” in our world should be “men and women stuff”? This is what they told me.
Oslo Davis is a widely published illustrator, artist and cartoonist. His latest book is Overheard – The Art of Eavesdropping.
Art walks a tightrope
Bill Henson exhibits recent photographic work at the National Gallery of Victoria
Magic hands
Russian piano superstar Daniil Trifonov teaches a masterclass in Melbourne
A cleansing fire
Jessa Crispin’s ‘Why I Am Not a Feminist’ demands a dismantling of mainstream feminism … and the system itself
Toronto International Film Festival 2018 (part two)
The ordinary and the extraordinary at this year’s event, and the perils of criticism
‘The Harp in the South’ at Sydney Theatre Company
Kate Mulvany’s adaptation proves that Ruth Park’s epic endures
Feeding the Muppets
What does the Morrison government have to offer in terms of serious policy?
Paul Feig’s sophisticated ‘A Simple Favour’
This camp study of sociopathy is far from simple