Listen To Older Voices: Pasquale Colodonato – Part 3
Welcome to the 3rd and final part of the story of Pasquale Colodonato.
Born in a small rural Italian village in 1935, Pasquale survived WWII despite losing his home and his father. He won...
Sunday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece
Germaine Greer at The Chelsea Hotel in 1972. AAP
Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in the popular imagination as a kind of shorthand for that...
Sunday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?
A modern portrait of Jeanne Barret disguised as a man,
based on the author’s interpretation. Timothy Ide, Author provided
In 1765, a young, peasant woman left a remote corner of rural France where her impoverished...
A-lop-bam-boom: Little Richard’s saucy style underpins today’s hits
Robbie Drexhage/Wikimedia
Little Richard was washing dishes at a Greyhound bus station in Macon, Georgia when he wrote Tutti Frutti, Good Golly Miss Molly and Long Tall Sally. The singer, who died Saturday at 87, sent the...
Hidden women of history: Wauba Debar, an Indigenous swimmer from Tasmania who saved her...
Though her brave acts were acknowledged after her death,
Wauba Debar’s grave was later robbed in the name of “science”. Tirin/Wikimedia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and...
The Odd Friday Lunch Simon Madden, Fri 13
Simon Madden was one of the greatest ruckman to play AFL and is one of Essendon's greats
Born 30/12/57, he played for Essendon between ’74 & ’92. He remained
loyal to Essendon, despite significant offers to...
Vale Clive James – a marvellous low voice whose gracious good humour let others...
An unlikely television star, Clive James shone a light on absurdity
but let us make up our own minds about it. Image: Alan Porritt/AAP
Australian writer and broadcaster Clive James has died at 80 years of age...
Sunday essay: the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbin
Whitlanders in the 1940s. Established in 1941 near the base
of Victoria’s Mount Buffalo, this Catholic community celebrated the
‘dignity of manual labour’ and was led by a charismatic athlete and former judge’s...
Sunday essay: Barry Humphries’ humour is now history – that’s the fate of topical,...
Dame Edna Everage at Melbourne Town Hall in 2006 after being
presented with the Key to the City. Simon Mossman/AAP
Let’s face it, Thursday evenings on ABC television are not quite the same any...
Jonathon Welch Farewells Choir of Hard Knocks in ‘Seasons of Love’ concert
After 13 years at the helm of Australia's most famous and loved, award winning choir - the Choir of Hard Knocks, Dr Jonathon Welch AM will give his Melbourne farewell concert Seasons of Love...
