National

Five ways Reg Grundy changed Australian TV (for better or worse)
As a businessman and television pioneer, Reg Grundy was a key creator of Australia's television production system and structure. Here…

ABC Head Michelle Guthrie's first taste of gunpowder
New ABC head Michelle Guthrie commits to an ABC free of either commercials or subscription services, and stays out of…

Life skills you learn from drama
Drama teaches us more than stage presence and how to memorise lines. There are transferable skills for work and life.

National Ratings week beginning Sunday 8 May 2016 - the whole batch
Janet King - watch the tuff lady slowly claim her territory. Pity it was the final ep.

Bastille Day
Action-thriller Bastille Day is both boosted and hobbled by its adherence to genre convention.

In 2016, Logies step into history
Mother's Day. An election called. At the Logies, Waleed Aly makes history, while Noni Hazlehurst breaks a sexist hoodoo.

Box Office 9 May 2016
A Month of Sundays sags off a fragile base, but has capacity to linger in the system for some time.

Winners at the 2016 Independent Cinemas Conference
The 2016 Independent Cinemas Association of Australia (ICAA) 21st annual Conference embracing Innovation and best practice in the independent cinema…

WA plays Santa with a $16m sack
The production attraction competition has just gained a supermagnet in regional WA which will make some other players distinctly grumpy.

For the last time, celebrate the Hive fundees
Round three of the HIVE initiative is announced, getting all meta on art, fantasy, regret and a potent desire for…