For those who choose to be involved with Alex Podger's Memorial, it is an act of catharsis: each firework contains the ashes of a loved one A bracingly chilly evening in Hobart. Mizzling rain is falling. A firework zips into the sky over the River Derwent (timtumili minanya).

He's played Lowry and Turner, and now the actor explains how he came to be holding his own art show.

With the crisis continuing for the nation's arts and culture sectors, industry leaders have converged on what needs to happen - fast When it was announced in August last year, the parliamentary inquiry into the arts was met with almost unprecedented interest. Four months of verbal evidence were . . .