Possums! Barry Humphries collection including Dame Edna memorabilia to go up for auction
February 25, 2025
We first met Johnny Spitieri in the 2003 film Gettin’ Square – and now David Wenham is reprising his role as the small-time crim, complete with balding mullet and wily ways. Back in 2003, a modest Queensland film called Gettin’ Square was released with little fanfare and ended up becoming a cult classic. This was largely due to David […]
February 25, 2025
I’ve never quite worked out why the American rock band Toto wanted to “bless the rains down in Africa”. I know their song Africa only too well, because it’s in the soundtrack of my life. Back in the early ’80s that song was on the radio all the time. And the songs from that time have become […]
February 25, 2025
You don’t have to be a Jane Austen fan to enjoy Queensland Theatre’s 2025 season opener. Will it help if you are? Almost certainly. Because you will know the story of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most famous novel, first published in 1813. On the other hand if, like me, you have never read the book you […]
February 25, 2025
While he once invaded the British capital with giant Australian fauna and Indigenous Fembots, artist/photographer Michael Cook’s latest London foray is more thoughtful – but no less crazy. It’s somewhat ironic that Queensland artist Michael Cook often uses London as the backdrop to his fantastical works. His photographic montages – shot on location and later […]
February 25, 2025
Brisbane-based contemporary circus outfit Circa performs across the globe, with this year’s international and Australian programs presented under the banner of Circa Festival of Music. When he sat down to look at his program for 2025, Yaron Lifschitz realised how crazy busy he has been. And will continue to be. As the globetrotting artistic director […]
February 25, 2025
Three men are on trial over an “audacious raid” in which a gold toilet worth almost $6 million was stolen from Blenheim Palace. The trio appeared in Oxford Crown Court on Monday, charged over the theft, in which the distinctive fully functioning toilet was stolen by sledgehammer-wielding thieves, who smashed their way into the palace. […]
