Life & ARTS 
Australia's gift to cabaret: Les Girls legend, Carlotta

Transgender Australian cabaret performer Carlotta was awarded the Member of the Order of ...  
Bearing witness: The Dismissal

Fifty years ago, as a young press photographer, I photographed Gough Whitlam the day after the ...  
Silence on the Australian Wars no longer an option

A landmark new book, expanding on Rachel Perkins’ acclaimed documentary, confronts the truth of ...  
Australian original — flaming spirit, Vali Myers

Bohemian fantasy artist Vali Myers was a 'unique spirit born out of time'.  
When Gough was 'shot' at Oktoberfest

During the 1970s, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was my hero, but I did him a disservice at ...  
'Horsing around' in Melbourne springtime

This image of a Thoroughbred foal bonding with its mother was captured at a stud in Melbourne' ...  
A tight finish: Triathletes put it all on the line

Triathlete Greg Reddan gets to the baton in a fiery finish, scorching a Sydney surf carnival ...  
Lionel Rose — a champion revealed

Indigenous Australian boxing world champion Lionel Rose become one of Australia's most famo ...  
Tracy Bartram — a brand of 'bubbly' that just gets better

Tracy Bartram is an Australian comedian, radio personality and successful podcaster who was part ...  
Jeff Kennett's Hawthorn hoodoo gone but not forgotten

After Hawthorn beat Geelong in the 2008 AFL Grand Final, the much-publicised 'Kennett curse' to ...  
Farewell to Rick Davies: The voice and keys of Supertramp

Rick Davies, the lead singer and co-founder of the massively successful British progressive rock ...  
Skyline blue: A birdseye view

This picture of a bird flying high above recent fog over Melbourne's Yarra Glen was shot from ...  
BOOK REVIEW: 90 Seconds to Midnight

Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs' '90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey' ...  
Frank Zappa —  Utterly brilliant as he was unconventional

American musician Frank Zappa was a clever, complex, "one-of-a-kind" artist.  
Entangled histories: Jews, Nazis and the myths of antiquity

Genetics and history expose the Nazi fantasy, revealing that Jews were never strangers to Europe ...  
Breathless lawsuits, streaming storms and fresh Aussie tracks

You Am I join the Hall of Fame, The Police fight over royalties, Spotify faces more backlash, plus ...  
Docklands remembered: 'Last Light on Victoria Dock, 1999'

For 25 years, timeless images of Melbourne's historic maritime gateway have been stored in a draw ...  
When the lights went out on Victoria Dock

Photojournalist Bill McAuley made a pilgrimage to Docklands in the late '90s to catalogue what ...  

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