The Drawing Room

"When you don't know what you're looking at, you can't see the red flags until it's too late".  

It’s a hard reality for many trapped in abusive relationships. Sometimes it’s safer to stay, sometimes it’s impossible to escape.

But do we really understand just how high the stakes are for women, children and those trying to save them?

SBS’s new drama series Safe Home opens up some of the stories behind family violence.

From photography to photoshop, technology has a long history of changing the way that artists approach their work.

But is AI part of that same lineage? Or something else entirely?

In his new exhibition, GEN, Ry David Bradley combines AI generated fields with a traditional artist's brush, to create something entirely unique.

Pulling together a handful of brilliant singer-songwriters for one acclaimed album seems tricky enough, but keeping it going for decades is something else entirely.

That's just another day at the office for The New Pornographers — whose ninth album, Continue As A Guest, continues their tradition of catchy hooks and clever lyrics.

In the Drawing Room, A.C. Newman talks about the ideas behind the new release.

He was the first elected representative for the Greens in Australia, and helped build the party into the force it is today.

But Bob Brown's actions have never been limited to the halls of power.

From the campaign to stop the Franklin dam, to his protests against logging, Brown has been arrested multiple times for standing up for his beliefs, and its that conviction that's helped to create enduring movements.

A new film, The Giants, not only looks at Brown's life, but in parallel, the magical ecosystems he's dedicated that life to protecting.

Growing up and growing old can lead to some significant changes in our family relationships.

Where once the children were the ones in need of care and attention, they sometimes need to become the carers in turn.

But what do those changes mean for our relationships with each other?And what is it like when you realise that you share the same traits that drive you to distraction?

Todd Alexander talks about his own experience and his new book, Over the Hill & Up the Wall.

The tales of Bluey Heeler and her family have captured children and parents alike and it isn't just an Australian phenomenon — it's become perhaps the country's biggest cultural export since The Wiggles.

In the Drawing Room, the show's executive producer, Daley Pearson, and director, Richard Jeffery, talk about how the show comes to life.

The leadership of a business can make a huge difference, not just to the bottom line, but to the happiness of the people who work there and the culture that they create.

But in his latest book, First Leaders, Andrew O'Keeffe wanted to move away from the traditions of the big Western companies and look instead to the lessons of First Nations societies around the world.

He visited twelve different societies looking at how they've worked together for centuries, building sustainable bonds with each other and the world around them.

"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity… All a poet can do today is warn"

Those are the words of Wilfred Owen that Benjamin Britten quoted on the score of his War Requiem: one of the great pieces of sacred music and one of the great warnings.

The British tenor Toby Spence is lending his voice to the requiem when he performs with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and in the Drawing Room he discusses the work, his battle back to the stage, and the importance of sound imagination.