Life & ARTS 
Tina Yong — Moving and shaping Australian dance culture

This photograph of dancer Tina Yong performing with Bharatam Dance Company is a triumph of ...  
Farewell Johnny Young: All My Loving

A tribute to Australian music legend Johnny Young, whose songs, television career and eye for ...  
Let's 'ear' it for great Australian Graeme Clark

To bring the profound gift of hearing to deaf people, Graeme Clark AC conquered challenges such as ...  
Harry Bridges: The Australian unionist who defied the U.S. Government

Harry Bridges’ story should not be forgotten on American shores, but it should also be known on ...  
Peter Moon — a 'very unattractive', pretty funny comedian

Posed here as a "derro" in a back lane in South Melbourne, comedian Peter Moon is well-know ...  
Eric Bana — Con from The Castle never looked so good

Aussie actor Eric Bana made his feature film debut in Working Dog's iconic 1997 film 'The Ca ...  
Booyakasha at Wimbledon: The quietly remarkable Jewish family behind the loudest man on centre court

One Baron Cohen cousin makes us laugh at what we pretend to be. The other helps us understand what ...  
Howlin' Wind stands out

Silhouetted in an inner-city doorway in Melbourne, this photo of world-renowned flautist and ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN:  When men were brothers – vale Antarctica expeditioner Geoff Somers

A tribute to the life of UK expeditioner Geoff Somers and his extraordinary calm, courage and ...  
Monte Dwyer: The forecast for Karl Stefanovic after Today

Does Karl Stefanovic maintain his "lovable larrikin" image or continue barrelling down this righ ...  
Night in pink satin: Natalia Makarova's Giselle still haunts

Mostly, eyes were on the mighty Baryshnikov that night, but Natalia Makarova's ethereal perf ...  
Farewell to Welsh songstress extraordinaire Bonnie Tyler

It was a sad day when Welsh songstress extraordinaire Bonnie Tyler passed away in Faro, Portugal ...  
Vale Derryn Hinch — the man who named them and shamed them

Unflinching journalist, broadcaster and former senator Derryn Hinch passed away on Friday, 10 ...  
Give me shelter

Still life: a man shelters from the rain against a factory wall in Newport, Melbourne.  
Howzat! — Daryl Braithwaite bows out

Daryl Braithwaite, widely known as the frontman for iconic Aussie band Sherbet, formally anno ...  
'The Shark': Golfing great Greg Norman swims into view

His drive was long — his temper, short. Shinnecock shook him up, like it does so many, denying ...  
Painters and Dockers 'doing time' at Docklands

In the early 2000s, I photographed Aussie pub rock band Painters and Dockers — not 'in the back ...  
Bushfires frighten all creatures — great and small

During my coverage of the 1972 New South Wales bushfires, I captured this little creature despe ...  

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