The urban renewal of Newcastle is frustrating to watch. It stops. It starts. Great organisations, such as Renew Newcastle, struggle for funding while white elephant projects bleed money from the […]

I’m intrigued by the concept of ‘strange bedfellows’: whether it’s an artistic connection, political ideology, or even involves real live people who shouldn’t be coupled together, but are, and instead […]

Are the mid-winter blues real? Or is it just that, as Australians, we are so used to being bathed in sunshine that we have a climactic hissy fit every time […]