The Biscuiteer goes back to school with these individually wrapped kiddie treats. But if we were kids, we’d be kind of disappointed to find these in our lunchboxes.

Australian Book Review just polled its readers’ favourite Australian novels, and we haven’t read many of ‘em. Are we philistines, or is it time to hunt Australia’s literary lions rather than feed them?

An unremarkable Big Day Out lineup this year had us turning our attention to the many ways that Australian flags and other patriotic objects can be repurposed as style statements.

The joy of this extensive retrospective from enigmatic Australian hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck is watching it provoke and interact with viewers. (Note: some images may be NSFW, even though it’s aaaart.)

Do you want to celebrate Australia Day without looking like a neo-nazi or a Patagonian? The Enthusiast provides an alternative to flag-capes and Southern Cross tatts.

In the second part of our investigation into onscreen colonial encounters, we look at films that depict European colonialism as a narrative of progress from primitivism to ‘civilisation’.

Conan O’Brien ended his seven month stint on the Tonight Show with trademark class, and – in a delicious if predictable irony – his highest ratings ever.

James Cameron’s alien eco-adventure Avatar has been criticised for its colonialist overtones. We decided to examine how Hollywood really imagines the space of colonial first encounters.

A cannibalistic convict film could have gone one of two ways: exploitative horror or existential dread. While Dying Breed chose the former path, Van Diemen’s Land wisely chooses the latter.