Culture

Janak Rogers’ podcast Australia Fair investigates the legacy of the shameful White Australia policy through the lens of personal experience.

Justin Kurzel’s new miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, adapts Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel into a war story that resonates with hope.

While many of the most memorable acts at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival use theatrical props, back-to-basics stand-up can still get the laughs.

I had forgotten the name of the park, and its general location: neither of those had mattered much four years ago. There was the jolt of recognition when I pulled up, though, a scree of it over my next movements, unloading the boys from the back seat and their enormous cricket bags from the boot, walking them across the dew-damp oval where two coaches, barely more than adolescent themselves, stood waiting beside a pile of stumps. I stood back while their mother did the talking, wiped wet blades of grass out of my sandals.

In Rafael Bonachela’s reworked production of Somos for Sydney Dance Company, the force and frailty of the flesh is on full display.

This Consequence, the new album from platinum-selling metalcore band Killswitch Engage, is exacting and accomplished.