Our Team

Stephen Romei writes on books and films. He was formerly literary editor at The Australian and The Weekend Australian.

Snowtown director Justin Kurzel found Shakespeare’s Scottish play was the perfect choice for his follow-up film.

Michael Bodey

Tom Keneally’s biographer, Stephany Evans Steggall, considers the prolific author’s development of his female characters.

Stephany Evans Steggall

Les Murray’s new book, On Bunyah, is a celebration in verse and photographs of the place he calls home.

Gerald Murnane’s Something for the Pain is as much an autobiography as a memoir of the turf.

Les Carlyon

The customer feedback survey has become a sneaky way for companies to gain free corporate services.

the forum: Dierdre Macken

Radical Newcastle might be the best evidence yet for what is wrong with how we approach history in Australia.

Jack Marx

Australia’s literary landscape has witnessed a Nobel drought since Patrick White in 1973. Could it break this year?

a pair of ragged claws: stephen romei

Relationships, family and culture are at the heart of the poems by indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann.

Australian poetry: Ali Jane Smith

Once the domain of kids’ films, 3-D is being used to tell adult stories with emotion and impact.

Don Steinberg

With the school holidays either looming or underway across the country, these are the film reviews you need to read.