How did it come around so fast? It’s been a packed year of films, special guests and festivals – including the biggest-ever Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) – but there’s...
Sister Anne Gardiner AM is the 2017 Senior Australian of the Year and has dedicated 62 years of her life to supporting and empowering the Tiwi people. She has worked...
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. Maria James was a mother of two young children, Mark and Adam. She owned a second-hand...
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter was turned down 12 times before it was picked up by a publisher, and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind was dealt 38 rejections. For most...
When I hear you saying / that we stood no chance / I would dive for your memory / we stood that chance sang the Go-Betweens in 1988. Although they...
Three strikingly different contemporary stories from the Continent come to the Deckie this month – from a bright Spanish rom-com to Romanian tragedy and French-themed escapism featuring exquisite food. Starting...
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. The Messenger is a podcast that makes for uncomfortable listening. Produced by The Wheeler Centre and...
“Be brief and say everything,” said the poet Charles Simic. That’s one skill poet and playwright Sandra Thibodeaux wants to impart to those joining her writing group, which will cover...
On a Saturday afternoon,
in a quiet backstreet of Coconut Grove, a dozen writers tap away at work they’ve put aside two hours of precious time for. Running from the...
DIFF'S opening night film is Alankrita Shrivastava's hit feminist black comedy Lipstick Under My Burkha . The film was so shocking to some in India that it was threatened with...
The last time David Wenham was in Darwin was to shoot Baz Luhrman’s blockbuster Australia . This month the actor presents his film Ellipsis – and it couldn’t be more...
The hotly anticipated program for September's Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) will be launched with Warwick Thornton’s irrepressible new doco We Don’t Need A Map. The very personal film-essay examines...
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. Do you remember the other stories from your day when you heard Nelson Mandela was released...
Award winning Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchell spent three years on the high seas with scientists to write her book about the crisis happening to our oceans. Off The Leash caught...
This year's words and ideas component of Darwin Festival includes an interesting mix of local storytelling, history and science. A favourite on the festival program, Darwin’s live storytelling night SPUN...
Years after he died, Albert Namitjira's copyright was sold by the Northern Territory public trustee for just $8,500, and is now privately owned by a Sydney family. The story of...
Cambodia's 'golden era' of rock n roll lasted for little more than a decade before it was tragically snuffed out by war and the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, but its...
When the Darwin Entertainment Centre turned 30 last year, the management’s attention turned to the venue’s projector room, which was built but never commissioned, lying dormant and film-less. “So for...
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. If there’s one thing you need to wrap your ears around, it’s Ear Hustle – a...
Have you ever been at a trivia night marred by dull sport and geography questions? Or glib 90s hits whose lines you’ve long forgotten? The NT Writers’ Centre’s literary trivia...