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Good Weekend
‘It does something to the soul’: Meg Washington on the power of singing en masse
The singer-songwriter discusses why she makes music, not being smart with money – and her hatred of leaf blowers.
- by Benjamin Law
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Australian film
If Paul Kelly’s classic Christmas song makes you tear up, this film will too
Nick Waterman’s film adaptation, written with Meg Washington, captures the spirit of How to Make Gravy.
- by Garry Maddox
How Paul Kelly’s classic song How to Make Gravy was turned into a different kind of Christmas film
Co-writers Meg Washington and her director husband, Nick Waterman, knew the stakes were high: “We treated the song like it was Shakespeare.”
- by Louise Rugendyke
‘It was like watching a brother and sister kiss’: Kate Mulvany’s secrets from the set
The How to Make Gravy star on bringing Paul Kelly’s iconic Christmas song to the screen.
- by Steve Dow
How a Paul Kelly Christmas song became a Brisbane couple’s feature film debut
How to Make Gravy is co-written by actor-musician Meg Washington and her filmmaker husband Nick Waterman.
- by Nick Dent
From making gravy to making love, Paul Kelly on his ‘toey’ record
Australia’s greatest songwriter on life, love, lust and learning from Taylor Swift.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
The response to the Bondi Icebergs documentary proves it’s not about swimming
All the world is Ian Darling’s stage, from business to theatre and documentaries.
- by Peter FitzSimons
Meg Washington spills the gravy on screen adaptation of Paul Kelly classic
The singer turned screenwriter says the story of How To Make Gravy had to make sense to both fans of the song and newcomers.
- by Martin Boulton
The Christmas push to end gravy train of exorbitant prison phone calls
Calls from public phones are free, but in Australian prisons they are prohibitively expensive, costing some prisoners almost their entire week’s wage on a single phone call.
- by Bianca Hall
Adam Liaw definitively answers the biggest question of the day: How to make gravy
It’s the 21st of December. And that means just one thing: it’s (Paul Kelly) gravy day! Adam Liaw shares how to make a great one.
- by Adam Liaw
Make a noise and make it clear: The moment Jimmy Barnes on the bagpipes lifted the crowd to its feet
A surprise appearance from Anthony Albanese was well-received at the pro-Voice Now & Forever concert in Victoria, but it was Barnesy who brought the people to their feet.
- by Jack Latimore
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