Neither loud nor brash, the late Tony Fitzgerald was in many ways an unlikely Territorian hero, said Patrick "Paddy" Dodson at the second Tony Fitzgerald Memorial Lecture held last Friday. Visit The Northern Myth for the transcript.
Celebrated Australian stand-up Justin "Hamo" Hamilton's The Goodbye Guy delivers a fast paced array of gags and anecdotes from a slick and endearing comic, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Comedy blogger Matt Smith calls up the hotel room of comedian Ross Noble, who yacks about being a rock star, accepting pitches for TV gigs and an unusual event at this year's Adelaide Fringe Festival.
In the public interest, the intangible values underpinning academic life need to be restored to their rightful place, writes University of Sydney Associate Professor Jake Lynch.
Lyndon Terracini is embarking on a revolution to make a night out at the opera fashionable again, starting with his $12.5 million outdoor extravaganza La traviata, writes Tom Cowie.
When four western journalists including Mitchell Prothero signed up to a paintball battle against members of Hezbollah -- the so-called 'A-Team of Terrorism' -- they came up against the genuine article.
Robert Adamson wrote a poem in tribute to the beautiful Grey Goshawk over 40 years ago. It turned out to be sadly prescient when, last week, one of the rare birds was shot dead by an illegal shooter in Bendigo, Victoria.
A new study has revealed a mere 1% of adults cycle to work, contrasted with 37% of students who cycle at least part of the way to school. But that number appears to be waning and safety is an increasing concern for parents, writes Alan Davies.
A consensus has emerged that Australia lacks a substantial collection of computerised language data, writes Simon Musgrave. Introducing the Australian National Corpus.
When did the humble hoodie get a bad name? When did it begin associating with troublemakers and riffraff? At least 800 years ago, says Brian Palmer.
