Simone Young conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in their February performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony at the Sydney Opera House earlier this year. The fourth movement alto soloist was Israeli Noa Beinart. She was sublime. One of the notables in the audience that night was...
Kalgoorlie’s Lynas’s Rare Earths Processing Plant and the Kilns that Crack when the Power Fails Kalgoorlie is the kind of place Australia forgets until something goes wrong. Then suddenly the country remembers that real industry still happens there - that metals are processed there, ore is...
NSW Parliament House, Sydney - where new laws to combat hate speech are now being debated. The images from Macquarie Street last weekend were as disturbing as they were familiar. Outside the New South Wales Parliament, a group of black-clad men calling themselves the National Socialist...
Workers before going on shift outside the Tooma-Tumut tunnel, 1960 – National Museum Australia When a wind turbine at Victoria’s Berrybank Wind Farm collapsed earlier this year, it was easy to dismiss the scene - twisted steel and shattered blades - as a freak event. But...
On the afternoon of Saturday 25th October I arrived in Geelong for a concert in Costa Hall, a programme that included Beethoven’s First and Eighth Symphonies and two flute concertos. Two Beethoven symphonies in one concert - who wouldn’t fly a thousand miles for that?...