'Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott spent idyllic childhood summers at his family's beach shack at the mouth of the Tamar River — kanamaluka — on the state's north coast.' (Introduction)
'For the first time, Australian children's television favourite Bluey has helped Americans usher in the holiday season at New York's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.'
'The biggest players in the Australian music industry have gathered to celebrate all the best of the year that was, at the 2022 ARIA Awards.'
'When S. Shakthidharan first told his mum that he wanted to look into their family history, she quickly shut him down, telling him: "That is a very stupid idea."'
'Bringing someone back from the dead is, arguably, one of the great soap opera plot twists.'
'A few years ago, Noongar musician Clint Bracknell heard one of the catchiest hooks ever.'
'Harry Donnelly and Keith Blake have known each other for four decades, but it's only in the past year their connection has reached a synchronous charm.'
'Musical prodigy William Barton has been named the 2023 Queensland Australian of the Year.'
'A statue of novelist Monica McInerney has been unveiled on the Riesling Trail in the Clare Valley.'
'In Exiles, bestselling author Jane Harper's latest novel, detective Aaron Falk (first introduced to readers in 2016's The Dry) travels to South Australia's wine country where he engages in a little post-COVID reflection over a glass or two of red.' (Introduction)
'A year ago, Tim Minchin announced his intention "not to become an unbearable tool with a huge-tiny ego". He knows how dangerously intoxicating fame can be, how heady and addictive. "It's not that wankers become famous," he once said. "It's that fame makes you a wanker."' (Introduction)
'Of all the terrible fads birthed by the millennial internet – pastel pink, GIF keyboards, the phrase "Netflix and chill" – the Instagram influencer at least makes for a campy archetype on screen. Her presence – and it is unfailingly a her – in film and TV signals the arrival of something unhinged: she is either a stalking victim, or, worse, a Francophile; often conniving and always a liar.'
