Films tend to set up and solve mysteries. But in Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), based on Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel and evocatively orchestrated with Gheorghe Zamfir’s maddeningly ...

Australian and New Zealand indie distributor Umbrella Entertainment will launch Brollie, a free of charge, ad-supported streaming service later this month. It will lean on Umbrella’s library of ...

Stories about distinctive wildlife, Aboriginal mythology and idyllic Australian childhoods. By Natasha Frost The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by ...

While we won’t be seeing A Country Practice back on air tomorrow, we can now raise our hopes of seeing reruns of our favourite Aussie shows. Earlier this week, the powers that be – Screen Producers ...

With apologies to all the exciting events left out, here are 10 theatre shows to watch out for in the year ahead. Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll changed what was possible in Australian ...

We get free-associative dreamscapes around some Greek tragedy and maybe a rich and beautiful performance but we are highly unlikely to get anything resembling the version of Euripides’ The Bacchae — ...