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Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin was so proud. Here she was in a Sydney cinema, watching the local premiere of Mary and Max, an Australian stop-motion animated feature film about two unlikely pen pals. One of her famous piano pieces, Russian Rag, was used as the theme for Max, a New Yorker with a unique, autistic world view that emotionally transcended the reality he was made of clay.
She was crying too at this soon-to-be-classic 2009 film by Melbourne animator Adam Elliot, whom she had only met for the first time that night.
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On Alice Zaslavsky’s new five-nights-a-week cooking show there is a large working kitchen, decorated in her choices of “soothing” lime, “happy” lemon and spot-colour pink.
The 39-year-old MasterChef alumnus and ABC News Breakfast regular chose these colours because she wants people to feel joyful when they tune in to A Bite to Eat with Alice. Each weeknight at 6pm they’ll be able to watch her make a meal with a different guest, be it a comedian, athlete or musician.
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It is an epic tale, a source of pride for its people, yet a story little known by Australia at large. On a single day in 1968, in the scorching Pilbara heat, 137 men – mostly from the Torres Strait – smashed a world record when they laid, spiked and anchored seven kilometres of railway track in 11 hours and 40 minutes.
Now recreated on stage at Brisbane festival, this feat, part of a nine-month project to build 400km of rail line from Mount Newman to Port Hedland, has received its overdue celebration in the joyous musical Straight from the Strait, presented by Opera Queensland, the Yumpla Nerkep Foundation and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
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