Still Life With Cat

Quoted in a report tonight: Bob Brown: 'This lockout is also a sellout of the spirit of Australia.' Tony Abbott: 'It is t...

UPDATE, 27/10/11: I am reliably informed that the AGNSW did indeed have copies of the other books and had either sold them all or not unpac...

It's a beautiful thing.

Ben Aaronovitch (b. 1964) is a London-born, London-based novelist and screenwriter who has worked on, among other things, Doctor Who . He ha...

Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Kon Karapanagiotidis, blogging at the Wheeler Centre (where you can read the whole thing), ma...

In the wake of the federal government's decision the day before yesterday to reject the Productivity Commission's recommendation on ...

... were announced today. Evelyn Juers' House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann shared the nonficti...

Recent events have inspired me to have another go at reviving my dedicated Aust Lit blog, Australian Literature Diary , which has been lyin...

Wow, a two-week hiatus. I don't think I've not-blogged for that long since I started in October 2005. For some reason this time of y...

Mere days after the volcanic explosion of a giant and pulsating boil on the muscular Aussie arse (otherwise Sarah Ferguson's 'Code o...

Neil Cross's novel Burial (which is neither Australian nor cinema, but bear with me) made me feel sick for the same reasons some of the...

1915 1917 See also here . 1935 My dad, aged 8, with his parents. On the back of this little photograph my grandfather has written, in his fo...

Peter Carey has a really excellent, impassioned piece in today's Age on what the elimination of territorial copyright will mean for Aus...