'In the climax of Gillian Armstrong's 1982 film Starstruck, wannabe star Jackie Mullins (Jo Kennedy) gatecrashes onto the stage at the Sydney Opera House to sing "It's the monkey in me that makes me want to do it" to an uproarious New Year's Eve crowd.' (Introduction)
'Three faceless, cloaked figures loom large on the front steps of the Ahmadzai abode. The young girl at the door — Nyneve — doesn't know it yet, but today is her father's last. The Witch Burners have come to burn him at the stake. His crime? Being born with hair deemed too long.' (Introduction)
'Indigenous actress Miranda Tapsell says the issue of deaths in custody is one that impacts everyone, following the alleged shooting of Kumanjayi Walker.' (Summary)
'When Ben Quilty duxed Year 11 art (the same year his careers advisor told him not to go to art school), he was presented with a book about Australian landscape painting — and he saw Henry James Johnstone's iconic 1880 painting Evening Shadows, Backwater of the Murray, South Australia.' (Summary)
'When award-winning children's book author Bren MacDibble watched her Melbourne home burn three years ago, she could never have known how much her life would change — for the better.' (Summary)
'The curtain call for a new play about the fabled Packer dynasty is instructive.' (Summary)
'One of Australia's most acclaimed cultural exports, Clive James, has died in England aged 80.'
'As sisters, they grew up as part of Sydney's social elite; listening in as their parents entertained celebrities with glittering soirees.' (Summary)
'Clive James's career saw him touch on any number of subjects across decades in television, radio, poetry, journalism, literature and just about everything in between.' (Summary)
