Poetry Salon Newcastle Writers Festival next month.

Journalism. Ever more under threat from vested interest, lobby groups, megalomaniacal billionaires, SM keyboard warriors and legions of politicians uncomfortable with fact and truth. All strength to my professional colleagues everywhere. Resistance is fair and balanced reporting.

I saw The Brutalist again yesterday. I can't remember the last time I saw a film twice at the cinema, but I found it just as brilliant, if not richer and deeper... not just a movie you go and see, but as an experience of the true power and beauty of cinema as art.

Double helix UTS night

With my daughter Ada at the screening of A Complete Unknown on Sydney Harbour. Magical night. The film itself? A near-miss.

This promises to be a lively chat today with the wonderful Elizabeth Farrelly.

This appeared on the pavement near my place overnight. Another reason to love my neighbourhood.. Redfern, baby.

The great SF classic!

Bette, la reine Margo in the timeless and ever dazzling All About Eve.