Saatchi & Saatchi taps into a perfect way to sell beer to drinkers who already use it as currency. Except Tooheys New is equivalent to Zimbabwean dollars.

Salt-N-Pepa are not the first band to accept God as their newest member. But as they serve up a modified take on their earthy hits at the Good Vibrations Festival, we hope their feminist message remains unscathed.

On Friday, Kevin Rudd’s wife Thérèse Rein will invite the crew of Channel Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens into the prime ministerial residence, the Lodge. Does she reckon she’s Jackie Kennedy or something?

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’.