Placement
The Cost of Entry
What it Takes to Belong They still live in the city, work in it, travel through it, and remain visible in it. But they are saying no more often now: no to the extra drink, no to the second stop, no to crossing town on instinct, no to the kind of evening that only works...
A Star is Born Standing in the shadows of love
The film has something powerful to say about ‘toxic masculinity’, painting an unusually believable portrait of male energy hedged between self-determination and self-destruction.
A Neighbourhood playlist
Ned Collette’s new double album 'Old Chestnut' is out now on It Records. Here he provides us with a playlist of the music that has been inspiring him, from Trabaci and Victor Jara to Joe Talia and Robert Wyatt.
Left Hanging How they’re killing the koalas of Wilton
“We have to work out what the transition is between protected koala habitat and urban areas... Let’s find a balance between conservation and development for housing.”
Stumbling Across Stones in Berlin Terror and Art: Unlikely Companions
I appeared to be standing in the midst of a mass grave. The endless rows of cold, grey, concrete steles resemble a procession of coffins...
Bob Dylan and His Band Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Sunday 19.08.18
The mystery of this evening is how he got to be this mythical – and yet so human again? It’s as if Dylan has fought his way back into being here and is saying a strange thank you to a dream that almost destroyed him.
Late for the Sky Gokay Gul documents the endangered birdlife of Sydney Park
“People don’t know how lucky they are,” says the bird man, looking me in the eye. “Because to understand the value of something, you have to take those things from the people’s hands.”
Supply Chains A letter from London
Get this: actual French people are buying their sandwiches from a British shop called Ready to Eat (in French), you can’t get much more globalised than that.
Still Together Lighting a fire for the Warumpi Band
Acknowledging our special history, Sammy Butcher and I talked about writing songs again. We felt we could still make a statement.
Lunch with Friends Fratelli Paradiso with Luke Storrier
"The key to a local eatery’s longevity is to be found in the ability of their sommelier and owner to contain their greed; Fratelli hits the mark with only one or two investment-banker-priced wines."
Bilson at Table My Favourite Duck
"I often view with evil intent families of ducks walking towards the ponds in Centennial Park."
and my heart crumples like a coke can
you died the tuesday after valentine’s day. valentine’s day was on the friday. stephen hawking had motor neurone disease too. his is different to the kind you had. there are four different kinds. yours was diagnosed the day you died. you were already dead.
Death of a Seaman Maritime incidents on our coast
On Sunday, 3 June 2018 – just 17 kilometres east of Cronulla – an electrical officer aboard the Singapore-flagged OOCL Kuala Lumpur was crushed to death.
Scream Time or Screen Time? To save your child you need first to save yourself
“The way we give our kids smartphones and tablets to shut them up is not so different from the days when we freely gave children laudanum to keep them subdued.”
This Perfect Day Losing Anthony Bourdain
Call someone you haven’t for a long time and tell them that you’re thinking about them. Invite someone over for a meal and cook for them. Let them know they can tell you anything.
2018: A Space Odyssey How Sydney artists are re-entering the inner city
"Somewhere that is a place for ‘the other’, the people who fall a little bit through the net.”