Placement
Love Letter to Glasgow
“Glaswegians have more fun at a funeral, than Edinburgh people have at a wedding”
Smugglers’ Paradise
From cocaine shipments and narco-subs to meth labs and transnational gangs, Ben Bohane reports from Vanuatu on the hard-drug trade spreading across the Pacific.
Dancing with the Stones
You Am I main man Tim Rogers on meeting Mick Jagger, mobile dentists and flamboyant trousers. Blame it on the Stones.
Breaking Waves: Homesick for Bondi
Adam Gibson reflects on memory, belonging and a suburb becoming unfamiliar even as he remains within it.
5 Stars for Dominick
A motel review, an old cat and a meeting with a beloved friend in a fading town in upstate New York.
The Cost of Entry: What it takes to belong now
They still live in the city, work in it and move through it every day. But as rent, distance, time and the cost of simply saying yes continue to rise, more people are quietly editing themselves out of urban life—not leaving the city, but taking up less and less room inside it.
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...
Pretty Vacant A letter from New York
Are luxury stores the victims of success? Our most fashionable neighbourhoods appear like they’ve been looted: a third of the stores in the heart of the city are empty! This retail rot is a new form of urban blight.
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.”
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.
Bilson at Table My Favourite Duck
"I often view with evil intent families of ducks walking towards the ponds in Centennial Park."