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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    When Shakespeare was the air we breathed

    • Peter Craven
    • 16 May 2025

    Was Shakespeare something you endured at school, or something that never left you? In this rich, panoramic reflection, Peter Craven explores the Bard’s enduring presence in culture, performance, and memory, from Brando to Gielgud, schoolyards to sonnets. A tribute to a lifetime’s treasure in Shakespeare.

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    The tragedy of Badfinger

    • Barry Divola
    • 15 May 2025

    You’ve heard their songs — on Breaking Bad, on the radio, sung by Nilsson or Mariah Carey— but you may not know the name Badfinger. Their music brushed greatness. Their story ended in ruin. Joey Molland, the last surviving member, has died. This is the tragic, unforgettable tale of the band that should’ve been the next Beatles.

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    Is Australia ready for a Pacific future?

    • Ken Haley
    • 09 May 2025

    Hamish McDonald’s Melanesia shatters Australia’s complacent view of the South Pacific as static and remote. With journalistic precision and historical urgency, he reveals a region marked by corruption, resilience, and political upheaval—forces poised to reshape Australia’s future, whether it’s prepared or not.  

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    Unrecorded lives

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 08 May 2025

    Elizabeth Strout’s novels honour unrecorded lives: ordinary people marked by quiet resilience and daily grace. And when we reflect on these unrecorded lives, we find a kind of everyday heroism, with echoes of Lucy Barton’s question: what is the point of a life?

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    Robert Manne and the responsibilities of a public life

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 02 May 2025

    In an era of reflex opinion and vanishing accountability, moral seriousness can seem an anachronism. Yet history teaches that ideas — and the people who defend them — shape lives and nations. 

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    The storm

    • Damian Balassone
    • 01 May 2025

    Despite the raging storm, I clearly see a figure on the Sea of Galilee/ a Son of Man/ with outstretched hands/ and he is calling me.

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    Moral panic aside, Adolescence is a masterpiece

    • Peter Craven
    • 16 April 2025

    A cultural flashpoint disguised as a television drama, the four-part epic turns a teenage murder accusation into both high art and a bracing reckoning with sex, violence, and the internet’s moral void.

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    The man who played everyone but himself

    • Peter Craven
    • 11 April 2025

    Before heartthrobs became brand names, there was Richard Chamberlain. A matinee idol with the soul of a serious actor, he rose to fame as Dr. Kildare, sought after Shakespeare, and stole scenes from Gielgud. His legacy is a portrait of quiet yearning — for love, for truth, for artistic respect.

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    The king of the Cross

    • Barry Divola
    • 10 April 2025

    Vittorio ‘Vito’ Bianchi was small in stature, but a giant of a man who ruled over the Piccolo Bar café in Kings Cross for over 50 years. To live in the Cross meant that you knew Vittorio Bianchi. It was impossible not to. 

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    Whose marbles?

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 04 April 2025

    The Parthenon Marbles have long stood at the centre of a cultural standoff between Britain and Greece — art or artefact, spoils or stewardship? As negotiations inch forward, the ancient stones carry modern weight, raising urgent questions about restitution, identity, and what it means to right the wrongs of empire.

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    The band that could-a-been

    • Barry Divola
    • 27 March 2025

    Glide were an ’90s Australian band set for big things - a new documentary is a cautionary tale about how critical success doesn’t always translate into commercial success, and how the quest can lead to casualties along the way. 

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    Shakespeare's war criminal? Henry V and the problem of heroism

    • Peter Craven
    • 14 March 2025

    Shakespeare’s Henry V has long been celebrated as a stirring hymn to English valour, a theatrical counterpart to Churchill’s wartime oratory. But beneath its rousing rhetoric lies a darker truth of a king who breaks hearts as easily as he wins battles, a war epic that disguises the brutality it glorifies.

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