The Godfather: Peter Corris on The Sundowners
Films on Australian subjects in the 1960s were mostly pretty undistinguished. A case could be made for They’re a Weird Mob (1966), which captured something of our...
Read MoreFilms on Australian subjects in the 1960s were mostly pretty undistinguished. A case could be made for They’re a Weird Mob (1966), which captured something of our...
Read MoreI was watching a History Channel documentary on notable crimes. This one dealt with the murder of Sir Harry Oakes in Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, in the early 1940s...
Read MoreTo date this year I’ve read 16 books and listened to 28 audio books. Because I keep a record with a note on each book and assign each a mark out of 10 to assist me in...
Read MoreEarlier this year my column dealt with what I called ‘unspoken backstory’ songs. I was prompted to think of other styles of songs, those with a distinctive mode or...
Read MoreThe name Coochiemudlo refers to the red rock that outcrops on the island and provided ochre for the mainland Indigenous people who visited for fishing and ceremonies....
Read MoreI don’t know when I first developed my yen to live on an island. It may have related back to Robert Louis Stevenson, but more likely to a book that was a set text in my...
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