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Sunday essay: Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814)

Portrait of Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), whose name and writings gave us the term ‘sadism’ Wikimedia Between the 1920s and the 1950s, sexual sadism was...

Everything he does, he does it for us. Why Bryan Adams is on to something important about copyright

Artists can be denied control of their creations for life. Bryan Adams at the 2015 AFL Grand Final. Julian Smith/AAP Last Tuesday Bryan Adams entered...

Mandela My Life is a welcome tribute to a hero, but avoids difficult questions

Detail from Father of the Innocents, from the series, Mandela A Life’s Journey, by John Meyer. Melbourne Museum Review: Mandela My Life, Melbourne Museum. What is...

Sunday essay: what do we want to be when we grow up?

For the most formative years of my childhood I lived in the western district of Victoria. You may recall the evocative paintings of Eugene von...

Ten of Australia’s best literary comics

Tommi Parissh’s The Lie and How We Told It is one of a crop of new Australian comics appealing to adult audiences. With news...

Sunday essay: the rise of the ‘bin chicken’, a totem for modern Australia

The majestic White Ibis. Shutterstock.com In just a few decades, the Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) has made itself at home in many of Australia’s...

How unearthing Queensland’s ‘native police’ camps gives us a window onto colonial violence

Ammunition found at a mounted police camp   at Eyre Creek. Lynley Wallis In 19th century Queensland, the Native Mounted Police were responsible for...

Sunday essay: the art of the colonial kangaroo hunt

S.T. Gill, Kangaroo Hunting, The Death, from his Australian Sketchbook (1865). Colonial hunting clubs were established across Australia in the 1830s and 1840s. National...
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