Steele Rudd News Today

Don't be tempted to spoil the family's Christmas gathering by setting straight some baby Bolshevik nephew fresh from his university white studies indoctrination course. Instead, preserve the tranquil spirit of the season by settling down with a selection of Yuletide writing from Henry Lawson, Steele Rudd, Dave Pellowe, Roger Underwood, Vanessa de Largie and Lennie Lower

The Cairns Post

The Cairns Post

Six authors are in the running for Australia’s most prestigious book award, which will be announced on Tuesday. Here’s your primer

He’s been awarded Father of the Year – but there is a darker side to this character we need to talk about.

In 2008, when I first visited Canberra’s newly opened National Portrait Gallery, my first response was an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. I knew many of those paintings. They had once hung on the walls of the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the annual Archibald Prize exhibition, or been seen in the Salon des Refusés — home to the best of the rejects. Over 49 years I have seen the Archibald from both the inside, as a curator, and the outside as a critic. My first Archibald was i...