Flaming Hoop

I kind of like the long version of this obit - too long for Fairfax's mastheads, but here it is for anyone interested in longer form rav...

Backpacker became gentleman scientist who scaled the heights in immunological research Jen Jewel Brown Photo by Mary Moore THE AGE S...

There is such a battle underway in the city of Melbourne. The battle to save the Palace. Let's hope it's not too late. Photo of inte...

Being included in a great big brick of a book called Rock Country is a turn-on. One thing I love is a good editor, and Christian Ryan goes ...

Happy birthday Robert F. Kennedy. You would have been 87. "Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to ch...

Hey sports fans, One of the things I have the pleasure of doing from time to time, outside of journalism and teaching and of course my own ...

LIVING MUSIC SHOWCASE: CHOICE AS ‘Raw, real and beautiful…’’ ‘Out there talent.’ ‘Brilliant collaboration. ‘Authenticity.’ - Audience comm...

Living Music ’s highly effective youth mentorship program has been operating since 1999 under artistic director Andrew McSweeney , himself ...

Living Music Showcase: Choice Is CONTAINS GRIT HOPE AND INVENTION: HANDLE WITH CARE. Focus issues: social issues, youth, justice system, ...

ANDREW McMILLAN AUSTRALIAN WRITER 29-12-1957 - 28-01-2012. Just realised I hadn't put the obituary I had the honour of writing for a...

Warning image and name of a deceased person .... Vale Lisa Bellear. Photo: Antoinette Braybrook May 2 was the birthday of black poet and...

JAMES OSWALD LITTLE, AO SINGER, TEACHER 1-3-1937 - 2-4-2012 By JEN JEWEL BROWN JIMMY "Gentleman Jim" Little, Australia's first...

Dr Jimmy Little AO was buried today at Walgett with his sweetheart Marjorie and some sands from his Cumeragunja birthlands. When I have a li...

Ah yes, the Planeteers (or some of them - Pepperell missed out this time) by Planet/The Digger/Rolling Stone Australia art director Ian McC...

Bit sad, bit glad ... Seems I've finished Paper Trail, the Hindsight program I've been working on part-time for a while now. Feature...

2012 was the first New Year I woke to where both my kids were staying off elsewhere, separately doing their own things with their own friend...