Imagine living in a world where religious police exist, men can have a second wife, love songs are forbidden, girls can’t sing in case...

Canterbury in Sydney’s south-west seems more like a place to travel through or use as a transport exchange, rather than a destination...

Recently I experienced the twilight zone phenomenon I describe in my book Sixty Nights of Dreams, where I have a dream incorporating...

It takes me a while to realise I’ve started viewing the Capturing Nature exhibition at the Australian Museum from the end, rather than...

Like many people, vacuum cleaning is one of my pet loathes, so I decided to pretend my vacuum cleaner was a pet, hoping this...

I first saw the movie Wings of Desire when it came out in Australia in 1988. I was immediately hooked on the premise of invisible angels...

For at least two years, the heart of Church Street, Parramatta, has been a building site. I can still remember the Parramatta library...

When I first saw a promo-photo for this movie, I thought it would be a sci-fi space opera and I crossed it off my to-watch list. I don’t...

Until my twenties I had no idea that the Devonshire Street cemetery had even existed until I first heard about it in a radio program...

Recently I went to see the Janet Laurence, After Nature, exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, a major survey of her...

The New South Wales State government has been promising Tomorrow’s Sydney for years now, but strangely enough tomorrow never seems to...

A friend of mine introduced me to Thersa Matsuura’s Uncanny Japan podcast and as soon as I started listening, I was hooked. Thersa is an...

I watched Sex, Lies, and Videotape when it first came out. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen it now, but I’d watched it at...

The Compass Centre, Bankstown, is full of mostly empty shops with yellow For Lease signs plastered on their windows, turning the place...

A couple of weeks ago, I visited the Street Photography exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. The exhibition featured images of Sydney and...

I’ve been collecting tarot decks and oracle cards for years. I often consult them when I’m stuck in my writing, finding the deck I’m most...