Johnny Young has died at 79. He made a major impact on this country’s musical and television landscape.
- Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
The Midnight Oil drummer and songwriter Rob Hirst has died at 70 from pancreatic cancer.
Your perfect summer read might be a paperback romance or crime book, a fat biography, or that classic you always meant to read. Our avid readers picked a wide range of books.
This celebration of public life in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, in 1974, reveals a vigorous working-class suburb evolving into a countercultural marvel of cheap ‘fixer-uppers’ and bohemian share houses.
David Nichols was a music journalist for more than a decade, starting in 1980. Samuel J. Fell’s new history of Australian rock writing takes him down memory lane.
This gem of a documentary explores the life — and furniture — of a Melbourne icon.
A 17-minute video artwork reflects on time and changing urban communities.
Rebel Wilson has embraced her ‘bogan’ upbringing in her defamation case against Bauer Media, but what exactly does that mean?
Punk gave women a voice; changed the dynamic between audiences and performers and offered music fans a DIY smorgasbord. On its 40th anniversary, that’s worth celebrating.
Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 film Dogs in Space was a punk circus/social document that alienated many. But on the film’s 30th anniversary, it seems the world has caught up with it and a new audience of fans has emerged.
‘I suppose that, as I’m 50, Molly is absolutely my demographic: I was nine when Countdown began and 23 when it ended, and I was a devotee for most of that time – a devotee who was often disgusted …’
The NSW town of Nyngan has announced it will build a Big Bogan as a tourist attraction. The question is, what kind of bogan does the town council have in mind?
Sixty-six years ago, the esteemed town planner Frank Heath took a bite out of his home town of Melbourne – from a safe distance. The Melbourne Herald was interviewing Heath in London. Quite possibly causing…
Bogans are here, there and everywhere; the word is a cover for any concept you can imagine. That Nathan Tinkler – the former mining magnate, once considered Australia’s youngest ever billionaire – made…
SBS’ recent three-part series Go Back to Where You Came From is, simply, a manipulative piece of media spin calculated to redress the balance of a media spun too far towards racist insularity. The intentions…
The first promotional interview for my new book The Bogan Delusion brought it home very strongly. As the drivetime radio host in Perth and I chatted amiably about the superficial aspects of the possible…
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