As CEO of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre, Carol wrote dozens of role plays to train mediators. Once retired, she wrote short plays,15 of which have been produced in festivals. Her longer plays have been produced by Nautanki Theatre, Subtlenuance Theatre and the Indian Association. She founded Scene Theatre Sydney in 2008.
With lockdown and more online trading in art, the interest in PNG artefacts is increasing. And no wonder. The more complex, electronic and unwild our world, the greater the appeal of the opposite world. We like the boldness of the …
In 1998, an earthquake struck the northern coast of Papua. Three catastrophic tsunami waves followed devastating entire villages, killing at least 1,600 people and displacing more than 10,000. Helen Dennett, an Australian who taught in PNG for years, was so …
BEYOND CLIMATE GRIEF is a very personal book written to help individuals manage climate grief. It has been highly praised by some as the must-read book that ‘will give us courage when we are overwhelmed by what is happening’…
This easy-to-hold and easy -to-read walking guide of Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay is a wonderfully compact book. It gives a history of this unique one square kilometre area of Sydney, and a clear description of the architectural styles. …
Photographer Haley Epstein has a unique approach to cranes. He says “looking at the Tokyo Olympics’ various hairstyles and appendages, my inner vision reverts back to the Sydney Football Stadium construction. The cluster of cranes form part of Sydney’s hairstyle …
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Auroville is an alternative international community in India that began in the 1960s. What happened there? Where are the children who were raised there? Why did the Indian High Court twice have to rule on whether it should exist as …
In lockdown creativity runs wild. People are painting, drawing, sculpting, writing and musing. Competitions abound. Portraits, landscapes, abstracts and other prizes are waiting for entries across Sydney and beyond. Here are a few. Most are online entries so get going, …
Hal Epstein is a retired chemical engineer and Whale Watching entrepreneur. He was the first operator offering whale watching tours out of Sydney way back in 1995. He is also what we now call ‘a creative’. He’s not just a …
Feeling the Heat, Australia under climate pressure, an article published in the latest edition of the Australian Foreign Affairs journal, comes just at the time Australia prepares for the Glasgow Summit (COP26).
The battlelines are drawn. Will the Federal …
In What Kitty Did Next, we enter the world of Pride and Prejudice. Australian based novelist Carrie Kablean tells the tale of the fourth of the five Bennet daughters in Jane Austen’s famous novel. The style, language and structure are …