Best films of 2024 (plus ticket giveaway)
The yearly countdown of the best films of 2024, and a ticket giveaway for an upcoming awards contender.
By Francisco Silva - 9 min read
The House
Helen Pitt’s The House offers a potted history of Sydney from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s set against the construction of the Opera House.
By Jane Southward - 1 min read
Australian Elder Law: Accommodation, Agency and Remedies
Australian Elder Law: Accommodation, Agency and Remedies by Richard McCullagh is is practical, offering many handy hints, with appropriate humour to lighten the tone.
By Darryl Browne - 1 min read
No friend but the mountains
Since 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani has been in limbo on Manus Island. He was sent there after he tried to reach our shores by…
By Azal Khan - 1 min read
A zero waste life
Self-described ‘accidental environmentalist’ Anita Vandyke had it all – a rocket scientist qualification, a well-paying corporate job as a manager in a large engineering firm,…
By Azal Khan - 1 min read
Inside the Lindt Café siege
It’s almost four years since Man Haron Monis took 18 hostages in Sydney’s Lindt Café so you may wonder what else can be written about…
By Jane Southward - 1 min read
The social rebellion
Maz Compton has it all. She’s gorgeous and funny, has an amazing career, a fabulous partner, and lives on Sydney’s northern beaches.
By Claire Chaffey - 1 min read
Mr Ordinary goes to jail
The popularity of TV series like Wentworth and Orange is the New Black has exposed a huge, somewhat voyeuristic, demand among audiences to discover what…
By Kate Allman - 1 min read
Murder at dusk
Only once has a foreign court hanged a man on Australian soil. It is May 1942 and Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling…
By Azal Khan - 1 min read
Eggshell Skull
It can be fascinating to see how many lawyers become great writers. Law graduate-turned writer Bri Lee (her bio says she “is qualified to practise…
By Kate Allman - 1 min read
Rather his own man
Early in the preface to Rather His Own Man, lawyer Geoffrey Robertson maps out the place that this “reliable memoir” should hold among some of…
By Justin Moses - 1 min read