The Drawing Room

"There was something about Morrison that deflected the attentive gaze."

Recently, Scott Morrison became the longest serving Pime Minister of Australia since John Howard. Before that, he spent years as a senior figure in government and in opposition.

But despite that, how well do Australians know the man who leads the nation?

In the Drawing Room, Sean Kelly speaks about his new biography of the Prime Minister, The Game, and why it ended up as much literary criticism as political journalism.

Oscar is a perfectly normal twelve-year-old boy.

So how can he explain to his principal that he has a very good excuse for missing a week of school - it just involved a magic mirror, an Elven city, and a day spent dead. Or at least deadish

In the Drawing Room, Jaclyn Moriarty discusses her latest book, The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere.

Lilias Fraser was a pioneer of Australian cinema: one of the country's first female directors.

Her daughter, Jane Castle, is an award-winning cinematographer, who has shot music videos for the likes of Prince and U2.

But Jane's new documentary, When the Camera Stopped Rolling, takes audiences away from the sets and the glamour; it looks at the life behind the camera and at the trauma and the desires that drove them both.

"This is the trouble with nature, it's so insistent."

Paintings by the great masters of the Renaissance are revered around the world. They are also exceedingly rare.

So what happens when a new work emerges—the long lost Salvator Mundi—that is believed to be by the hand of Leonardo Da Vinci himself?

A new documentary, The Lost Leonardo, follows that story: from a small, but exciting purchase to a sale at auction of $450 million and a connection to the great powers of world politics.

Beloved Australian writer Thomas Keneally has never been short of a story to capture the imagination of Australia and the world.

Iin his latest book, Tom is showing audiences a bit of his own world, or at least his thoughts on the state of the world around him.

In the Drawing Room, he discusses economics, Mungo Man, and our collective unconscious.

A new series, The First Knowledges, seeks to introduce readers to the innovation and science of Australia's First Nations people, and to explore how that history can become part of our present and our future.

Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe are the co-authors of the latest work in the series: Country: Future Fire, Future Farming.

Whether it's on Gardening Australia or just in his own yard, Costa Georgiadis is an enthusiastic advocate for the natural world.

In his new book, Costa's World, he shares his experience on sustainability, community and chooks.

How do you create interactive theatre when the audience can't leave their home?

The global pandemic has been a nightmare for theatre companies around the world and we've seen many different solutions as troupes find ways to work around the restrictions.

Swamp Motel created something completely different - an interactive story that has the audience hunting the web for clues, hacking corporate accounts, and unearthing old conspiracies.

Rosemary Laing is an acclaimed Australian artist, whose interventions on the landscape disrupt and challenge our normal perspectives and speak to the culture, the history, and the context of the land that she depicts.