Our Team

Rosemary NeillSenior Writer, Review

Rosemary Neill is a senior writer with The Weekend Australian’s Review. She has been a feature writer, oped columnist and Inquirer editor for The Australian and has won a Walkley Award for feature writing. She was a dual finalist in the 2018 Walkley Awards and a finalist in the mid-year 2019 Walkleys. Her book, White Out, was shortlisted in the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

Latest

FILMReview

Beth and Don Photographer color correction, select BD_060522_DAY22_0271.ARW

When is it OK to lie to your spouse?

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Holofcener talks about the pros and cons of little white lies in life, love and marriage.

Rosemary Neill

Bullocks & baritonesReview

Opera Queensland Young Artist Soprano Nina Korbe on her ancestral lands in Winton. Picture - Glenn Hunt

‘Experience of a lifetime’: How Opera Queensland conquered the outback

There are no shortage of hazards attached to performing in remote Australia, but crowds are flocking to the performances that ditch the constraints of an indoor stage, set to a backdrop of Insta-worthy sunsets.

Rosemary Neill

Harlem NoirReview

American writer Colson Whitehead at the XXI edition of LITERATURE - International Festival of Rome, entitled Tempo Nostro. Palatine Stadium. Rome (Italy), July 14th, 2022 (Photo by Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

‘Racists aren’t really dying off … we’re stuck with them’

On the eve of his Australian tour, literary superstar Colson Whitehead discusses his acclaimed heist novel, his love of video games – and why he’d rather talk about his books instead of politics.

Rosemary Neill

MagazineWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 06 MAY 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. SBS Safe Home, Home Virginia Gay. Photo: Narelle Portanier

Virginia’s new role as mother hen to acting’s next gen

The star of new SBS murder mystery Safe Home on why it’s her duty to give younger castmates, including Aisha Dee, the space to shine.

Rosemary Neill

InquirerInquirer

Members of the Gumatj clan perform bunggul (ceremonial dancing) at the annual Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land. Pics: Melanie Faith Dove / Yothu Yindi Foundation

Can the voice deliver practical changes?

Rio Tinto’s destruction of ancient Aboriginal rock shelters at Juukan Gorge could have been avoided if the voice was operating, Noel Pearson says. But can it improve lives?

Rosemary Neill

PRESTIGIOUS POSTNation

The National Museum of Australia is launching its biggest gallery redevelopment since it opened in 2001. Called the Great Southern Land gallery, it contains more than 2,100 objects illustrating Australia's environmental and cultural history. It has been designed by Local Projects, a New York firm who also worked on the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan.NMA director Mat Trinca in new the new gallery space with Diprotodon skull in the Kati-Thandi/Lake Eyre exhibit.Picture: The Australian / Gary Ramage

Museum boss to step down after a decade in role

National Museum of Australia director Mat Trinca says it’s time to make way for a ‘refreshment’ of leadership at the Canberra institution.

Rosemary Neill

‘white hands’Indigenous

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 28: Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke holds a press conference recommending states and territories to consider a speed up domestic use ban of silica within six months at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Minister to probe black art scandal

Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke has confirmed he is investigating allegations of significant white interference in Indigenous paintings.

Rosemary Neill and Greg Bearup

ReviewReview

Actors Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in 1939 film Gone with the Wind. Picture: Supplied

Gone with the Lost Cause: O’Hara, Butler recast as ‘homicidal white supremacists’

The 20th century’s most famous fictional lovers had ‘profoundly fascistic worldviews’, according to an author who has mounted an excoriating critique of the novel-turned-film for its denialism of the horrors of slavery.

Rosemary Neill

exclusiveIndigenous

Rosie Palmer, manager of the Tjala Arts centre in the APY Lands of South Australia, is seen appearing to paint on the work of Indigenous artist Yaritji Young.

Concern for whistleblowers in black art scandal

Amid ‘serious’ allegations of white hands in Aboriginal paintings, Ku Arts has turned its focus to those who have publicly spoken out.

Rosemary Neill

ReviewReview

Embargoed until Thursday night...11/4/18: The winner of the Stella Prize, Alexis Wright for her book called Tracker. Pictured at the Regent Hotel in Potts Point in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian

NT intervention ‘failed, exaggerated child abuse claims’

Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright’s epic new book argues the forces behind the intervention of grossly exaggerating paedophilia in remote Indigenous communities.

Rosemary Neill

Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/rosemary-neill/page/11