This book provides an 'insight into the growth of theatre in Australia from 1967 when Katharine Brisbane joined the fledgling Australian as its national theatre critic. It tells the story largely through her writings for the paper and for later publications through to the mid 1980s. The book concludes with her contributions to the public debate in the years since, which articulate the power of the arts in our everyday lives ... The book steers us through battles over censorship and subsidy, the demolition of nineteenth century theatres and the construction of great cultural centres' (Back cover blurb).