Placement
Songs of Experience A conversation with Adam Curley of Gold Class
Toxic masculinity, the robot future and rock 'n' roll escape acts.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Dystopia within
Yorgos Lanthimos ('Dogtooth', 'The Lobster') is a surgical filmmaker of great opacity; his film a bright and coldly lit Gothic work in the mode of Stanley Kubrick.
Midnight Oil The Domain, Sydney, Armistice Day 2017
The band were here to bring their clarion voice back to the city like the ghosts of those old Domain Speakers' Corner rabble-rousers that I believe still haunt the nearby Moreton Bay figs.
A Heart-Shaped Sticker from King Street Returning home to Newtown
"A beautiful young woman with a shaved head and black velvet choker pressed a sticker in the shape of a heart onto my chest and I thought, yes, this is my home."
Street Fighting Man Lanz Priestly was the leader of the Martin Place occupation by the homeless of Sydney. He’s ready for the next battle.
“Today I wonder just how different people who are renting are from people who are homeless.”
The End of the Road An elegy for Parramatta Road
“They might want to push that redevelopment kind of idea but you've got to have a balance ... they've pushed out the soul of the city.”
Volcano Dogs A Letter from Vanuatu
In what was described as a 'Dunkirk-style operation'', 12,000 people were evacuated from the island of Ambae as its volcano erupted. It was a place left, literally, to the dogs.
You Should Be Dancing A Letter from New York
The ‘city that never sleeps’ is getting a taste of freedom again with the repeal of the Cabaret Law.
Address from the New President, 2020 #potus #guns #numb #toughmeasures #shooter #prayers #clichés
“Our hearts go out to all these poor tortured words and phrases that get murdered with such rampant indiscrimination.”
Blade Runner 2049 Does the ability to have a relationship grant us a soul?
Emerging from 'Blade Runner 2049' is a single, mournful question: if love is the human emotion that ties us to reality, then what does it mean for our reality to love something artificial?
Unmarked Tracks: September A monthly Australian music column
Unmarked Tracks travels the off-road paths connecting our music’s past and present.
Walking Home A Letter from London
The city seems to be both rapidly reconfiguring, and moving somewhere – although where I’m not entirely sure.