Tag: Australian Culture
No, the federal government didn’t spend $4 billion on COVID support for culture and the arts
Image: Shutterstock
Canberra thinktank A New Approach put out an interesting paper last week on the state of public funding for Australian arts and culture.
The report made...
Circus Oz is to close after 44 years. They irrevocably changed Australian circus, and brought it to the world
Image: AAP Image/Julian Smith
In 1980, I was in London and working at the Roundhouse performing arts centre.
Thelma Holt, the legendary director of the Roundhouse,...
Vale Margaret Fulton: a role model for generations of Australian food writers
Legendary Australian food writer Margaret Fulton, pictured here
at the launch of a stamp collection featuring her in 2014, has died aged 94.
Dean...
Sunday essay: why old is new again – the mid-century homes made famous by Don’s Party and Dame Edna
A Royal Victorian Small Homes House, designed in conjuction
with The Age newspaper, 1955. Photo: Wolfgang Sievers.
Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria
Of all...
Passover or Easter?
Many Christians will Celebrate Easter on Good Friday (the crucifixion) and Sunday for the resurrection, few Churches will be following the Passover rite. Passover...
Violence on Melbourne streets
The violent silence in the Australian landscape cries out for the victims that die or struggle to go on. The victims of the horrific...