Anna Butterss on touring with Flea, and the 'counter-cultural antidote' of live music - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia

When one of rock’s best-known bassists needs a bassist, who do they call? On his debut solo album Honora, Red Hot Chili Peppers co-founder Flea tapped Anna Butterss, the Adelaide-born musician making ...

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Art Gallery lands ‘modernist masterpiece’ after $675,000 bidding war - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia

The Art Gallery of South Australia has unveiled its latest acquisition: a rare landscape by Adelaide-born Dorrit Black that more than tripled its expected price when it hit the market for the first ti...

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New Adelaide Writers’ Week director named after 2026 implosion - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia

The Adelaide Festival board has named a veteran literary festival boss to lead Adelaide Writers’ Week after its cancellation in 2026.

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Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles

New wave of publishing fraud mimics lonely hearts swindles of old – swapping promises of true love for the fantasy of literary acclaim. And the wooing process is now fully automated

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I wrote a book about theft and deception – and now AI scams are flooding my inbox | Walter Marsh

Authors like me are being targeted by AI-powered accounts promising exposure and fake reviews * Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles My latest book had been out for less than a month when the emails started to arrive. One came from “Elena”, with the tantalising subject line, ‘When history flutters its wings and reveals a crime too beautiful to ignore’. Then followed a long, florid message about how it was “one of those rare true stories that makes you question everything you thought you knew about history, museums, and human obsession”. Continue reading...

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‘All voices should be heard’: Pulp open Adelaide Festival with 90s nostalgia and a simple message - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Thousands turned out to see Sheffield’s finest Britpop exports kick off this year’s Adelaide Festival with a euphoric free set – and a pointed rebuke to censorship.

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Heart of gold: Archie Moore digs deep for Adelaide Biennial - InReview | InDaily, Inside South Australia

A gold-plated heart and treasure map form a bittersweet tribute to the father of Venice Biennale-fêted artist Archie Moore – one of 24 artists featured in Yield Strength, the 2026 Adelaide Biennial of...

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Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back

Phenomenal drummer and percussionist was an equally accomplished songwriter who embodied the band’s bloody-minded spirit

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'If it was the board’s decision, why did half its members resign?': Boycotting author reflects on Writers' Week wake - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Author and InReview editor Walter Marsh tells how Writers' Week furore leaves "our small literary pond feeling just as toxic" as algal bloom.

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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

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Writers' Week 'spin' under fire - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

This weekend, head to the Barossa Valley for A Day on the Green or discover the park lands on a guided tours.

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'Dark days': Writers' Week staff reject axing as authors leave in droves - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Writers' Week staff reject the board's decision to axe a prominent Palestinian author, in an email to authors seen exclusively by InDaily.

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‘My work is often misunderstood’: Shaun Tan on his surreal Tales from Outer Suburbia

The author-illustrator reflects on his ode to a suburban childhood as a small-screen adaptation comes to ABC this summer * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In the internet’s slop era, where even auteurs such as Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki can find their distinctive style cribbed en masse by platforms like ChatGPT, perhaps it was inevitable that Australian artist Shaun Tan would encounter his own AI imitators. For the moment, at least, Tan can laugh about it. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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Night — and a Gentleman Burglar — at the Museum

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‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers

Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence

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‘Smash, grab, melt it down’: how material value likely motivated the Louvre heist

Experts say thieves would struggle to find a buyer if the stolen goods remained intact

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Tarnanthi turns 10: how a small South Australian festival became a super-sized champion of First Nations art

This year’s edition, a statewide juggernaut spanning more than 30 exhibitions and events and a major show at the Art Gallery of South Australia, celebrates the past and present while looking to the future Walking through the Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) alongside Nici Cumpston, it’s as if the Barkandji artist and curator is surrounded by old friends. For the past 10 years, Cumpston’s role as artistic director of Tarnanthi festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art – which this week celebrates a decade with a supersized statewide iteration spanning more than 30 exhibitions and events, including a major exhibition at AGSA – has seen her travel widely and listen deeply to bring these canvases, sculptures and video works to Kaurna country. Continue reading...

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‘Harvest of loot’: the colonial legacies of South Australia’s Benin Bronzes - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia

In an exclusive book extract, InReview editor Walter Marsh explores how a group of bronze sculptures behind glass at the South Australian Museum reveals a complex story of British imperialism, a South...

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The Butterfly Thief

It was inevitable that George Lyell and Gustavus Athol Waterhouse would become friends, despite all appearances. Lyell lived in the Victorian town of Gisborne, had never got beyond high school and was a partner in a dairy machinery factory. Waterhouse had haunted the Australian Museum since attending prestigious Sydney Grammar next door and graduated with first-class honours in geology and palaeontology. There were 11 years between them.

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The great butterfly heist: how a gentleman collector stole thousands of butterflies from Australian museums

Scientists are still unravelling the thefts of Colin Wyatt, an English adventurer, artist and naturalist who charmed the entomological community

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Trent Dalton, Bri Lee and Melissa Leong’s ‘raw’ memoir: the best Australian books out in October

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on * Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Fiction, Simon & Schuster, $34.99 Continue reading...

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