CULTURAL FIGURES

Image: A Pacific island woman with a child planting sugar cane in a field, Bingara, Queensland, c 1897. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.In...

Image: Josh Gorringe at the Debney Peace site in 2019. Photo: Tom GriffithsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and/or...

Image: Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Epa/Ian LangsdonArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu has died at the age of 90.Archbishop Tutu earned the respect and love of millions of South...

Gabrielle Chanel, photograph by Henry Clarke, published in Vogue France, 1954. Paris Musées. © Henry Clarke, Paris Musées / Palais Galliera / ADAGP. Copyright...

  Building a “scene” involves lots of facets.  It involves recognising that a “scene” should exist when there is no real organisation.   Australian blues music...

"Scars Of The Soul"  During the 1960s and 1970s, the protest song focused mostly on Vietnam.  At the time there were other little known protest...

 This is Part 1 of a 4-part program that features the Life and Times of Claire Humphrys. Originally aired in early 2016, it is...

Nancy Bird Walton preparing to fly a female Santa into north-west New South Wales in 1935. ©Royal Far West Can Christmas be about gender? Apparently...

Today is the fortieth anniversary of the murder of John Lennon.There are so many debates still continuing on today about John Lennon – was...

Blues for Lost Souls* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCoEv9X2tUDownhome Duo - "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" InstrumentalGospel music represents “hope”.   Hope for a better life to come, hope...