How journalist Marlee Silva is tackling tough conversations through Rugby League
Marlee Silva, 29, on the power of sport, how she deals with trolls and ‘toxic masculinity’.
Television
Big fan of Peaky Blinders? Add this bareknuckle boxing drama to your list
This rollicking narrative of pickpocketing and boxing in the brutal East End of late-1800s London is simply gorgeous to look at. It has operatic style, grand complicated characters and, like Peaky Blinders, confronting violent moments straight from the Scorsese gangland manual.
Meghan’s new Netflix show drips with saccharine inanities
Meghan Markle simpers and gushes and doesn’t keep quiet in her new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan. You have been warned, this is truly dreadful.
Put these four shows on your watchlist
Daisy May Cooper’s mum-on-the-verge-of-a-breakdown returns for a second season of Am I Being Unreasonable? Plus a slick new German medical drama, and other goodies.
Ten Pound Poms: How British migrants were sold a false dream
Countless war-weary Britons bought into clever advertising showing golden beaches and beautiful houses. In reality, many immigrants arrived Down Under to gross disappointment.
SAG Awards 2025: Chalamet and Conclave score shock wins
At the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards, Timothée Chalamet and Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller delivered surprise victories, upending the predictions for Best Actor and Best Ensemble.
Neighbours cancelled again after Amazon steps away
After a brief revival, the iconic soap will wrap production in 2025, closing a four-decade chapter in Australian television history.
This cult classic is finally available to binge watch
Homicide: Life on the Street still looks innovative and only slightly dated – and is as dramatically satisfying as it was first time around.
Four young Australian filmmakers you should know about
Our next generation of directors is telling homegrown stories for global audiences, capturing the beauty of our landscape for the screen.
Shameless, heartless and utterly engrossing talk TV
The Jerry Springer Show was tacky at best, tawdry at worst … but there was a liberatory streak.
‘My grandfather was interned in Changi … it affected him for the rest of his life’
A link to Adam Liaw’s past has led the television cook and former MasterChef winner to a new role reporting from behind the bars of notorious Singaporean prison, Changi.
Go big or go home
It’s the largest TV you can buy in Australia, with a screen almost three metres wide. Price: a cool 30 grand.
Yoga, wellness and death: check into The White Lotus
The super-rich have moved on to Thailand for the third series of Mike White’s hit thriller. Its stars talk about their trip of a lifetime.
Becoming Belle: ‘I had to empathise with her’
American Kaitlyn Dever steps into the role of Australia’s most infamous wellness fraudster in Apple Cider Vinegar, a caustic new Netflix series that dissects the rise and fall of an influencer who built her empire on lies.
Appetite for disruption: Boy Swallows the AACTA awards
The critically adored Netflix adaptation of the Trent Dalton’s best-selling debut novel has dominated Australia’s film and television awards.
Chef Colin Fassnidge: ‘I’d catch fire if I went to confession’
Colin Fassnidge, 52, on the chef who made him cry, what his kids really think about his cooking, and his advice for succeeding in life.
This series should be subtitled: ‘Hell came to the promised land’
This savagely violent survival tale is set within one of the more pitiless and uncompromising periods of American history.
BBC apologises to staff over Russell Brand sex complaints
Some employees had stayed silent about the behaviour of the comedian and actor because they believed he ‘would always get his way’, a BBC director said.
Cancer conwoman Belle Gibson finally gets the Netflix treatment
As a sociopathic grifter with a talent for self-promotion, Kaitlyn Dever’s Belle Gibson is loathsome on screen – but her Aussie accent is top-notch.
Reloaded: the golden age of crime inspiring a new era of TV
Spies, detectives and villains have been lifted from the page to inspire some riveting contemporary television adaptations. One in particular is a must-watch masterpiece.
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