if I'm not mistaken they were squats in the 70's. Mainly artists living in them. : )
Good to see they were saved.

Thanks for the shout-out! : )

So sorry to our Australia’s Lebanese communities who must think all we care about is the price of fuel. 😔

bloody hell - the ending of that book!

The stage is set! Brendan’s second novel launching in a chilly Hobart tonight!

great review.
My tenth watch - at least! : )

Nice work, but I wonder if they've opened the historic lavatories?

Great to see a substantial essay on @pipadam.bsky.social's work, "Audition" (her latest) in particular.

"Her work is now beginning to reach the US audience it deserves..."

Long time coming and a long way to go to address the damage - but so grateful to everyone who has ordered a copy of Where It All Went Wrong (including through your library!) I’m still so angry - and I hope it makes you angry too (so we can fix it) x

I'm excited to purchase it. I absolutely love the cover - which is already being slagged!
He's a singular artist. Warts and all. But the man who wrote November Spawned a Monster, will always be okay by me!

(on the other hand I pity music journalists!)

brilliant album

Well, I've got my dick out and I'm pissing in the wind, and quite a lot of it is blowing back on me, but there you go - thats how I write a book.

Juice and the politics of anxiety - Overland literary journal Recently longlisted for the 2026 Climate Fiction Prize, Tim Winton’s latest novel, Juice is not — as Winton himself and critics have described it — hopeful and a “creative projection of ‘wondering…’’”...

“When it comes to fiction, then, I am arguing that the anxiety that provoked the writing of Juice is incited by, not detached from, capitalism and power, and no less dangerous than what Winton describes as apathy.”

Daniel Ray on Tim Winton’s JUICE

Sadly amusing that it took Haaretz to pick up on this line by Albanese

x

Kudelka from when Gillard's portrait was unveiled

(sorry, no alt text.)

my fave of all time!

Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:

"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"

Randa Abdel-Fattah, Discipline - This brilliant and profound novel dives deep into what it means to be a Muslim in Australia in our current traumatic times. Randa Abdel-...

What has got rather lost in all this: Disobedience by Randa Abdel-Fattah is by all accounts a great novel. Here, @peterdonoughue.bsky.social calls it "brilliant and profound". No wonder she gets programmed for writers festivals... notaboutbooks.blogspot.com/2026/02/rand...

If you want to understand Australia’s housing crisis, look at what the government funds We are living through the worst housing crisis in living memory. Rents are surging, home ownership is slipping further out of reach, and homelessness is rising and more persistent.

"If you want to understand Australia’s housing crisis, look at what the government funds" by @maiyazize.bsky.social & James Hall for @thepointau.bsky.social

thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

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It all began for me at this Capitol Theatre gig. What a show. I left it a changed man, too!
- sad news.

that concert, at Goat Island. Unbelievable. And his pink overalls - God he was cute!

The Great Silencing Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...

Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...

a man dressed as a mime with white face paint and a red scarf ALT: a man dressed as a mime with white face paint and a red scarf

Tony Burke ;)

Another option might have been to let her turn up and talk about her novel.

yeah, but the lampshades...?

Would the last writer to withdraw from Adelaide Writers Week please turn off Amanda Vanstone. Thank you.

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Libraries, museums & festivals getting trashed by cuts & because so many boards now stacked with business people, ex-politicians, incompetents & toadies & one or no arts reps. More & more public & iconic cultural institutions have been taken over, charters abandoned; now being wrecked from the top.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide