Why do so many of the greatest Australian songs have a rhythmic pulse to them? There must be something about the soul of this place. A...

AC/DC are beyond criticism, really. Beloved, genuinely global and singular. They hit paydirt the minute the Young brothers started...

Man, this song is a beauty. There aren’t many that hit so close to home for me at this point in my life as this one. It’s the modern...

Few Australian musical artists ever achieved the international level of renown that Peter Allen experienced at his peak, which makes his...

The Angels are one of the country’s unluckiest bands. They should’ve been fucking huge. The had the beat, the riffs, and most importantly...

Note: this isn’t strictly a ‘song’, so I’ve decided I can include it alongside my top 10. (My game, my rules!) The opening music for the...

In response to a request from Triple J – who are soon to commence a countdown of the top 100 Australian songs of all time – Prime...

The tricky thing about artificial intelligence is that whilst humans are its authors, no individual human being possesses the processing...

In the pantheon of troubled geniuses, few occupy as distinguished a place as Brian Wilson. The only person who seems to have trodden a...

It breaks your heart. Two brothers, twins, gone within months of one another. It's incomprehensible. It truly is. We are not wired to...

I met Anthony Albanese after a Midnight Oil concert in 2017. Chatted to him for a couple of minutes and came away happy to have met the...

It genuinely surprises me that so many Australians seem not to have figured out what a Welcome to (or Acknowledgement of) Country...

Lest We Forget.   It ought to be that simple. But it isn't.   What is it we need to remember? The loss of lives in war is a simple enough...

The Catholic Church is a web of infinite complexity, every intersecting silken thread an insoluble contradiction. And at its centre is...

I've seen some disgraceful things in my time, but I've never felt quite so sickened as when I learned of the televised Oval Office...

To call Gene Hackman the consummate actor undersells him. He was extraordinary. Unable to rely on looks or even an everyman charm, he...

January 27th was Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's still difficult to comprehend the deliberate and organised horror of the Holocaust,...

Mars? According to the ABC's News website, Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley has compared the arrival of the First Fleet with Elon Musk's...

What a century. All obituaries risk hagiography, but in some cases, the thing that honours most truthfully is simplicity. Jimmy Carter...

When I look beyond myself, my physical self, my self-tracked atoms my bagged, wet flesh and my well-worn bones, I see all directions and...