Caught The Veils earlier this week at NSC and was reminded what an awesome live act they are - and of their album from the start of the year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvIr...

Starting to think about my 2025 mixtape - track highlights from this year.

Folding wing of a Salvin's Albatross

A daily bird I've enjoyed seeing (or as often as I remember to actually post)

Hiromi + PUBLIQuartet was one of the best gigs I've seen this year. Virtuosic playing with absolutely compelling performances. Brilliant way to close out the jazz festival.

Latest episode of Weekender takes on Wayward (yay?), After the Hunt (boo!), and I recommend the latest show at Heide and the new album by The Antlers.

“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/XogpEAK

This seems extremely embarrassing re: the state of Aus politics

I’m not a fancy big city lawyuh, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how copyright works.

An early edition of Arts in 30 Weekender, with Jason Di Rosso joining us for a chat about One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II

Very glad to be able to speak to ABC RN's Arts in 30 about the closure of Meanjin.
Thanks, @skykirkham.bsky.social
Discussion starts at 20mins:

Second episode of the Weekender is up - featuring guest host Claire Nichols. We look at the huge success of The Studio, share book tips (The Names and What We Can Know), music tips (Springsteen and Wisp) and pay tribute to Robert Redford.

Ah, yes, what a shock, who could have seen this coming, it's not like it has been a long standing issue with facial recognition systems since inception or anything...

The deputy editor speaks

overland.org.au/2025/09/no-g...

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

RIP to Robert Redford, one of the best to ever do it (and a dozen other things on top of that)

Here’s an excerpt from a 2017 interview that he did with Esquire, in which he discusses his career, the Trump presidency and a slew of other things all very articulately

Remember him for the work

Thorough and fascinating examination of what remains publically known (and unknown) around the decision to end Meanjin

Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith - story by Paul Daley www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A new weekly extra for Arts in 30 - we set the news aside and bring you our tips on what to check out and what to skip from the world of arts. This week: Why genre fiction deserves a place in the top books of the century (we pick Mieville and Pratchett), and the new album from Bleak Squad

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

Should probably have included a link to this... www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

On Arts in 30: With Meanjin set to close after 85 years, @greenj.bsky.social looks at the finances of running a literary mag and @beneltham.bsky.social explains why he's organising a protest to save it. And @jennifermills.net.au on what the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement will mean for Aus writers

Thank you for the outpouring of support over the past few days, and for the memories being shared.

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There is an FAQ page up on the website to answer some of the questions being asked about subscriber refunds, which we will process expeditiously. This page will be updated with new developments.

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