By Mark Butler* FARRAGO 9 – Waterman: A Picaresque Tale of Old Sydney I HAVE always wanted to write something to live up (or down) to that headline which, throughout my many years as a newspaper subeditor never lost its place as one of the top five banned hackneyed puns, so i hope this makes [...]
A few weeks back I went for a drive down to Batchelor, an old uranium mining town an hour’s drive south of Darwin that remade itself as a town dedicated to tourism—the wonderful Litchfield National Park is nearby—and education—the town is home to the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education. Here are some photographs from [...]
This Musical Dispatch from the Front is a guest post by my old—in both senses of that word—friend Frank Baarda,* a long-term resident of Yuendumu. For decades we have made our annual trek up and down the Stuart Highway. I recall some memorable road: signs: Ki Ki – Australia’s Pistachio Capital Bordertown – Bob Hawke’s [...]
2024 will be a big year for elections, with some estimates stating that half (really?) the world population will get the opportunity to vote in 2024. Time magazine reckons that 64 countries—and the European Union—will conduct national elections this year with elections in Taiwan, Bangladesh, Russia and Ukraine all must-watch events for a variety of [...]
EXCLUSIVE TO THE NORTHERN MYTH NEWS SERVICE DARWIN, Thursday, 18 January 2024 A Darwin Tradie has left patrons and management at a local restaurant outraged, shocked, bemused and befuddled when he reserved his table with a pair of Dragon Eyewear shades. One local, sparkie Tom “Mullet” Millner told Northern Myth News that he’d never seen [...]
By Mark Butler.* SOME time in 1970, while I was still pretending to be a student at Macquarie University, I gave a lecture outlining my belief that Bob Dylan would one day be seen as a great poet on the same level as Eliot, Yeats and Auden, at that time my touchstones for poetic greatness. [...]
Bob Gosford This post is the first in an occasional series looking at music that I’m … Spinning … on my recently acquired turntable. The following text is from the website of Fat Possum Records, where Mississippi Hill Country musician R. L Burnside recorded what for mine was his best work. His 1994 recording Too [...]
For various reasons I missed the email from Jane alerting me to the opening of what looks like a great exhibition at the Post Irving gallery in Fremantle, WA. By all accounts the show went off with a bang, with red dots on all of the works within an hour of opening! As the handbill [...]
By Mark Butler* OUR town’s book nook (motto: “Leave a book, take a book, or both. No batteries required.”) is snugly tucked away in the vestibule of the community hall, and was set up by my wife Mary and me not long after we had moved here in 2016. We maintain and curate it, and [...]
© K Roussos, 2023 This is a guest post by artist, curator and barrister-at-law Koulla Roussos* I watched “Barbie” the other night. I took my mother, sister, nephews and a 5 year-old niece and two friends, and left the cinema with a brain in toxic shock convulsing with mixed messages. It has taken a few [...]
