'Tributes are flowing for former ABC Sydney presenter and Fairfax journalist Deborah Cameron, who has died aged 60.'
'Dorothy Hewett is remembered as a leading poet, playwright and novelist. Admired for her passionate and politically charged writing, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her services to literature in 1986.' (Introduction)
'Leigh Whannell wants you to know that he has not killed anyone yet.
'The 41-year-old Australian writer-director, best known for turning a post-film-school short into the multi-million-dollar horror franchise Saw, is used to people being surprised about his even temperament.' (Introduction)
'Tapping into current anxieties about tech companies that routinely peer into our private lives online, Upgrade is a sci-fi action movie set in the near future about a man who has an artificial intelligence device implanted into his brain.' (Introduction)
'Only one woman has been recognised in the best director categories in this year's Helpmann Awards, revealing the live performance industry's prevailing bias towards male directors.' (Introduction)
'At 37, Tony Albert is the youngest person to have a major solo exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.'
'Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world visit sites of natural beauty and significance to Aboriginal people: Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, Kakadu, the Bungle Bungles in the Kimberley, Cape Yorke.' (Introduction)
'For the poet Maryam Azam, the experience of wearing the hijab can mean many different things. At times the headscarf is soft and sensuous. At others, it's a symbol of power.'
'If you look at lives as if they are stories, there's one plot line that seems to dominate: birth, puberty, work, marriage, child-rearing — and finally, death.' (Introduction)
'Acclaimed actor and playwright Jada Alberts has had enough of the scourge of suicide impacting Indigenous Australians, and she's using her words to address the issue.' (Introduction)
