My Night at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Thriving Hub of Campus Arts and Culture
Fantasy We walk over to the gallery fashionably late. After hours of pounding the pavement in search of hot campus news stories, time has gotten away from us – and…
Laughing All the Way to the Banksy
A few years ago, A Perth graffiti artist was aggrieved that one of his pieces, at an estimated value of $20 000, was unwittingly erased from a Perth wall by…
Review: Dinner by Black Swan State Theatre Company
I was fairly excited to see the Moira Buffini play Dinner at the State Theatre, for what should be fairly obvious reasons. I was promised live lobsters, death and betrayal.…
Review: Mariko Mori at AGWA
Luminescent. If I had to describe this exhibition in one word, that’s what it would be. Mariko Mori’s first solo exhibition in Perth, Rebirth follows the theme of humans in…
Skeletons in the Closet
When I left home, and my disposable income became my not-so-disposable income, the first thing I gave up was fashion. For someone who’d grown up on a diet of Country…
Save Australia’s Most Venerable Institutions
You may not yet know it, reader, but we are under attack. From whom? By what? And how? These seemingly pertinent questions lapse into irrelevancy when we consider two points:…
The Politics of Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest is like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a feather boa, and doused in sequins, just for good measure. It swings into our lives…
Criminalising Peaceful Protest
A new anti-protest bill currently being debated in the Western Australian Legislative Council is starting to create a bit of a furore, due largely to its vague language and the…
Grouchy Marx
I don’t remember the last time I walked through this university without being stopped by someone with an agenda. Protests, paintball, whatever the hell is the new thing to care…
Protesting With Icelandic Black Magic
How to So you want to make your local Liberal MP’s life just that little bit harder. Don’t we all? But with firebombing their office or throwing caltrops on their…