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Norman Swan, Split Enz and an epic saga set 300 years in the future

Plus bizarre plant stories and celebrated WWII war correspondents.

The Canberra Times · Sep 15

AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red

I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existence

The Guardian - AU · May 28

“It sits between Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator and Roxy Music – all viewed through a haze of spectral menace”: Before Crowded House, before their new-wave hits, Split Enz were unabashedly prog

New Zealanders’ 1975 debut album Mental Notes has been unfairly forgotten in the light of the creators’ later successes

Louder · Apr 11

As new Aussie citizenship rules kick in, the ‘fair go’ finally returns to trans-Tasman relations

In 1865, my Irish-born great great grandparents travelled from Dunedin to Sydney to marry in St Mary’s Cathedral. Some 63 years later, my grandmother Mary also travelled to Australia to marry my grandfather Ted. He was a clerk with the Bank of New Zealand and had been posted to Melbourne…

The Conversation · Jul 3, 2023

Crowded House ride out storm for dream performance

HAS there ever been a more fitting evening for Crowded House to perform Weather With You, their seminal hit about humankind's inability to control the elements? But surely Neil Finn also needs to delve deep into that songwriting box of tricks he possesses to conjure up a sequel about riding…

Newcastle Herald · Nov 12, 2022