Interview
How pop star Kim Wilde became an award-winning gardener
As a singer, she broke records in the 1980s – then gave it all away. But Wilde, who tours Australia in October, couldn’t stay away from music for long.
- by Michael Lallo
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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki reveals his former life as a ‘drug-crazed hippie’
Australia’s favourite science guy reveals that he’s led quite the life, in his new memoir.
- by John Bailey
Tash Sultana: from viral guitar hero to CEO
The Australian busker turned global festival sensation says being in the music business is “an amplified life”.
- by Michael Dwyer
I don’t see myself as hard-working: Romesh Ranganathan
The British comedian might be one of the busiest stand-ups in the business, but he doesn’t consider his job “work”.
- by Lenny Ann Low
How Alison Moyet tamed her demons and embraced her ‘otherness’
Debilitated by agoraphobia and depression in the 1980s, the English musician – who has a new album and a global tour – learned to find purpose in her struggles.
- by Michael Lallo
Ransom Riggs’ new novel is a love letter to ‘beautiful, disgusting’ LA
The bestselling author of Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children has a much-anticipated new fantasy series published this week – and it has a decidedly retro feel.
- by Kylie Northover
I’m not willing to do TikTok challenges: singer Christine Anu
Christine Anu has locked into the magnetic north of her soul.
- by Michael Dwyer
What makes a sweet guy turn mean? How Hunter Page-Lochard found his inner villain
The award-winning actor plays a drug dealer in new cop drama Critical Incident, and it’s a long way from Play School. “Even my dad couldn’t watch.”
- by Helen Pitt
He used to steal food. A night at the theatre changed everything
Six years after Declan Furber Gillick decided to teach himself how to write plays, he took out one of Australia’s most prestigious theatre awards.
- by John Bailey
Social media has made us more psychopathic, says author Jon Ronson
The journalist, author and screenwriter says he “got drunk” on the power of his psychopath-spotting skills after writing his 2011 bestselling novel he Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry,
- by Lenny Ann Low
Australia didn’t want actresses like her. But then things changed
After five years in Los Angeles, Salme Geransar returned home thinking her career would be over. Now she’s on stage in a Pulitzer-winning play.
- by John Bailey
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