Liz Hobday
Stan Grant tells festival crowd the coronation leaves him underwhelmed at best
“It’s a pretty good place to be on coronation day,” said one member of Stan Grant’s audience at the Melbourne Writers Festival....
Julia Gutman wins Archibald with Montaigne portrait
Artist Julia Gutman has won the 2023 Archibald Prize with a portrait of singer-songwriter Jessica Cerro, best known by her stage name...
Auction of major John Olsen work just fetches $250,000 reserve price
The first major work by John Olsen to be auctioned since the artist’s death has been sold at the bottom end of...
Dance remains king as Rufus du Sol, Flume win at APRA awards
Musicians Rufus du Sol, Flume and Sampa the Great have taken out some of the many gongs at the APRA Music Awards....
Poet Sarah Holland-Batt awarded $60,000 Stella Prize
Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has won the Stella Prize with her book The Jaguar. Holland-Batt said winning the $60,000 prize was an indescribable joy and a...
‘Makes no sense’: Aussie musicians dudded on radio fees
Australian radio stations are playing music by local artists for a fraction of what it’s worth, a parliamentary hearing has been told....
The ugly truth about Frankenstein’s monster: He came to life as a stud-muffin hunk
Frankenstein’s monster started out not looking so bad, according to the first illustrated edition of Mary Shelley’s classic novel. The 1832 volume...
Yanggurdi leads way for First Nations fashion labels on festival runway
Unlike much of the fashion industry, the founder of Indigenous street label Yanggurdi is making garments that last. “It’s more meaningful and...
Styles, Sheeran and Snoop deliver big spending boost
Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran and Snoop Dogg aren’t helping the Reserve Bank’s efforts to make Australians curb their spending. The trio of...
Runway crowd favourites Aje and Nevenka light up Melbourne Fashion Festival
The real world has interest rate rises and cost-of-living pressures, but the fashion festival has the dreamy looks of the Utopia runway...