'In Louise Milligan's debut novel, Pheasants Nest, journalist Kate Delaney goes missing after a night out in Melbourne's inner north.'
'When award-winning film director Glendyn Ivin was given the green light in May 2021 to create the streaming TV series, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, he struggled to find local Australian film crews to help in production.'
'There's an old saying in comedy: Never turn your back on the audience, they might just realise they don't have to find you funny.'
'Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir, best known for The Truman Show and Picnic at Hanging Rock, will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 2024 Venice Film Festival. '
'Housekeeping for Beginners is the third feature in as many years and genres from celebrated Australian Macedonian director and screenwriter Goran Stolevski.'
'In Rebel Wilson's recently released memoir Rebel Rising, the Hollywood actress tells the tale of her move to Los Angeles and how she found herself sharing a flat with another aspiring Australian actress Monique, who she'd known previously.'
'Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the top prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for her "stunning" verse novel She Is the Earth.'
'A few hours before flying out, Western Sydney filmmaker Bina Bhattacharya still can't believe she's going to Cannes Film Festival.'
'For a 45-year-old franchise that began as a scuzzy, low-budget exploitation movie set in a near-future Australia, George Miller's Mad Max series has extracted a surprising amount of mileage from its rusty tank of guzzoline.'
'Furiosa – the fifth film in the Mad Max action series, set in a post-apocalyptic Australia — has arrived just shy of a decade after the last instalment, Fury Road. But the idea came to director-creator George Miller first.'
'Melbourne street artist Matt Adnate has won the Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Yolngu rapper Baker Boy.'
'It is harder than ever to be a working artist in Australia, a comprehensive national study has found.'
'The state government is threatening to pull funding from some Western Sydney libraries following a council vote to remove same-sex parenting books from shelves.' (Introduction)
'A children's book at the centre of a controversial decision by a Western Sydney council to remove same-sex parenting literature from libraries is part of a series designed to help children navigate the "difficult realities in today's world".' (Introduction)
'At just 28, Winnie Dunn has accrued an impressive list of firsts to her name.'
'A Western Sydney council has voted to reinstate same-sex parenting books in its libraries after they were controversially banned earlier this month.' (Introduction)
