'George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga arrives 45 years after his classic apocalyptic road movie, Mad Max. With a reported budget of $250 million, his latest is the biggest and most expensive film in Australian history.'
'When Ariane Beeston gave birth to her son she was working in child protection as a newly registered psychologist. Years before, she’d won a ballet and dance scholarship to a Sydney private school, which led to performing with the English National Ballet, winning ballet competitions and blitzing exams. When puberty arrived, this changed. Too short, too muscular – so the arbiters said – Beeston was made to feel “too much and not enough”. Pregnancy renewed this scrutiny of her body, reigniting “tracking, monitoring, obsessing” over her size, and parenting brought other kinds of scrutiny, most with limited capacity to detect maternal mental health conditions.' (Introduction)
'12 Rules for Strife is a bite-sized activism manual by writer-editor Jeff Sparrow and cartoonist Sam Wallman that nods satirically to Jordan Peterson’s self-help book 12 Rules for Life. It pairs political mottos with bold illustrations to argue for embracing real-world advocacy in our apathetic and deputised world.' (Introduction)
'“Each night before I walked out onto the stage, I would imagine my mother walking beside me,” says the actor Trevor Ryan in Shakespeare on the Noongar Stage. “We would perform and speak our native tongue as one.”' (Introduction)
'Giving Australian grown-ups the chance to watch their own new drama on the small screen still isn’t taken seriously enough. And it’s worth asking if the biggest local stakeholder – the taxpaying public – is getting cultural bang for its buck.' (Introduction)
