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Sunday essay: why Rosaleen Norton, ‘the witch of Kings Cross’, was a groundbreaking bohemian

 Rosaleen Norton works in crayon in a converted stable in Kings Cross in Sydney, 1946. News Ltd/Black Jelly Films Rosaleen Norton, or “the witch of...

No, Twitter is not censoring Donald Trump. Free speech is not guaranteed if it harms others

 Picture: Alex Brandon/AP The recent storming of the US Capitol has led a number of social media platforms to remove President Donald Trump’s account. In...

My best worst film: Pink Flamingos – ‘one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made’?

New Line Cinemas  While some may know John Waters through his family friendly Hairspray (1988) – adapted into a stage musical in 2002 and back to the screen in 2007 –...

Trump’s Twitter tantrum may wreck the internet

Image: Sipa USA US President Donald Trump, who tweeted more than 11,000 times in the first two years of his presidency, is very upset with Twitter. Last week...

Sunday essay: the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism

Artists Matcham Skipper and Myra Gould on a Melbourne footpath, circa 1940.  Albert Tucker/State Library of Victoria The origin story of Australian modernism often centres around Heide –...