Unless you’ve been living under a rock you should recognise Sidney Nolan’s iconic image of Ned Kelly. You should also...
Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly Series blends fact and fiction at AGWA
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Happy Flowers Week
Life is full of light and shade and as you know I prefer to focus on the positive, always looking for the laughs in...
The Grand Orient in The Melbourne Hotel
Finally the scaffolding is down and we can re enter The Melbourne Hotel. I'd watched for weeks as the iron girders...
Review: Sculpture By The Sea, Cottesloe 2018
As summer officially calls it a day, March will see Cottesloe Beach swarming with around 200,000 people checking out...
Australia Day in Perth 2018
This year I decided to do something different for Australia Day. Instead of getting the place ready and waiting for...
Perth Festival Writers Week 2018
Change is as good as a rest, or so they say. One thing's for sure 2017 festival director Katherine Dorrington...
Hopman Cup 2018 Free Seating Debacle
I've been fortunate to have attended the Hopman Cup for almost all of the past thirty years. During that time I've...
2017 The Year of Humanity
The following piece appears in my monthly column for Swan Magazine. Is it just me or do these end of year columns seem...
Paddington Bear 2 movie review
If there's a movie you must see over the Christmas break it's Paddington Bear 2. Honestly it's adorable and I'm not...
In Cahoots: Aboriginal Art exhibition
Eighteen months ago leading independent artists (both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) began an ambitious plan to hold...
When The Sky Fell W.A. Indigenous Art exhibition
The subtitle of the exhibition When the Sky Fell is Legacies of the 1967 Referendum. Prior to the opening night at...
Why cafés should come with an age guide.
It had to happen. I knew the day would come but thought I might’ve had a few more years yet. Sadly, I’ve begun to...