I first learned of Captain Moonlite from the historian Graham Willett. In Secret Histories of Queer Melbourne, a book Willett co-edited, Moonlite features “as the bushranger most likely to qualify as ...

That’s when I first heard the Gaza Strips. It says something of these four young men and one woman that their eponymous debut album announces itself with the left-right-left knockout punches of those ...

Andrew Ahn’s remake of Ang Lee’s breakthrough film stars Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a story of lesbian fertility ...

Cape York’s palm cockatoos teaching drumming techniques to their young are an example of the emerging field of animal cultures ...

Paul Kelly and the Dots. Turns out they’ve got the residency, every Friday night at the Kingston Hotel. And Friday night rolls around fast, so before you know it you’re back there checking them out ...

If Bob Marley is reggae’s saint – and The Wailers’ commercial breakthrough, Catch a Fire, was also released in 1973 – then Toots Hibbert, who led the Maytals, was its greatest and most ebullient ...

Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history ...

Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, has on his shelves a copy of Microcosmographia Academica, the classic university satire, written by the University of Cambridge scholar ...

Melbourne-based Elizabeth Finkel is a former biochemist who switched to telling the stories of other scientists. She is the former editor of Cosmos magazine.

After the death of her mother, the author reflects on the hold of sugar upon her family’s health and history ...

The danger of misrepresenting new malpractice regulations as muzzling doctors’ opinions On Saturday October 8, The Australian published an op-ed titled: “Health disgrace: bureaucrats in bid to silence ...

But this year, despite the fact that six Australian citizens were awaiting execution in Indonesia, the federal government chose not to voice its objection to capital punishment at the meeting of the ...