Books, Non-Fiction, Reviews Book review: Bain Attwood’s The Good Country Rosemary Sorensen A few years back Mt Alexander Shire council in Central Victoria sent a letter to residents, seeking input into the …
News & Commentary Has social media influenced human interaction – even at the local library? Rosemary Sorensen In the library, at the reserve shelves, I found myself standing next to a child of about six, as he …
News & Commentary I wish I’d had a poem like Mango by Ellen van Neerven to write about in my English exam Rosemary Sorensen Ellen van Neerven’s poem upset some students sitting the NSW Higher School Certificate English exam this week. They were asked …
Books, Non-Fiction The Enigmatic Mr Deakin: a biography for our times Rosemary Sorensen Let us not ask what makes a politician, but rather, what makes a good politician. Judith Brett’s The Enigmatic Mr …
News & Commentary, Visual Arts Charm offensive: Nick Mitzevich and Tony Ellwood’s race to the top Rosemary Sorensen When Nick Mitzevich (above) was appointed director at the University of Queensland Art Museum in 2007, he was 37, and …
Exhibitions, News & Commentary, Visual Arts Paul Turbitt: artist, architect and bricoleur of the bush Rosemary Sorensen There are artists who explore concepts, hint at ideas, privilege ways of seeing, delve, conjure, reveal, dialogue and, of course, …
News & Commentary Books and beer fuel cultural tourism from North Carolina to Central Victoria Rosemary Sorensen Elizabeth Kostova, international bestselling author of The Historian and The Shadow Land, was at Bendigo Writers Festival earlier this month. …
News & Commentary, Visual Arts Blockbuster mentality claims Castlemaine Art Museum Rosemary Sorensen Time and tide have caught up with one of regional Victoria’s finest galleries, Castlemaine Art Museum, which will close on …
Books, News & Commentary Don’t worry, Australian life-story writing is in excellent shape Rosemary Sorensen This year’s shortlist for the National Biography Award tells us loud and clear that Australian life-story writing is in excellent …
Books, News & Commentary Kenan Malik on 20 years after the fatwa on Salman Rashdie Rosemary Sorensen When Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie in 1989, even in Australia, in what was then the outer …