For decades, we’ve heard seers of all stripes declaring that ‘everything is political’. In 2020, though, you might be forgiven for reading that with a note of exhaustion. The hopeful overtures of the open internet have well and truly descended into countless – endless – jibes and arguments. Cancelled columnists (and cartoonists) heave their laptops open to lament their newfound…

'I’m not Australian, I’m not Greek, I’m not anything ... What I am is a runner. Running away from a thousand and one things that people say you have to be or should want to be.'

Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas is one of Melbourne’s most iconic works of fiction. In Tsiolkas's high-octane, sex- and drugs-fuelled 1995 debut novel we follow…

Before Muriel’s Wedding, He Died with a Falafel in his Hand and The Castle lit up Australian screens, there was the 1990s comedy classic Death in Brunswick, best remembered for its iconic grave-digging scene. 

That scene is among the most famous in Australian cinema. It’s a sequence of dark absurdity that captures not just a moment and a…