Water flying off a breaching whale caught the judge's eye in the ABC Local Whale Spot photo competition...

ABC Great Southern Saturday Breakfast with Nick Bosly-Pask has been running a "Spot a Cocky" competition for the past 4 weeks....

John Butler, Snowman, Streetlight, Harlequin League and Project Mayhem have all taken the title, it's time again for Western Australia's Next Big Thing....

The Great Southern region boasts a range of stunning land forms, but artist Richard Woldendorp is one of the few people to have experienced this landscape's grandeur from above. ...

Shire of Katanning youth programs coordinator and hip-hop instructor Juaini Taylor has been named WA's most outstanding youth worker in a ceremony held last Friday night....

This selection of essays, written over a twenty year period, provide an insight into the unique imagination of author Gerald Murnane, and the obsessions that lay at the heart of both the man and his writing. These include horseracing, grasslands, Jack Kerouac, and the country Hungary: a country ...

Nobel laureate for literature 2009, Herta M ller, who lives in Berlin, takes her themes from life under the black shadow of Ceau escu's Romanian dictatorship. Born in 1953 into a German speaking minority in Romania, she did not escape the Securitate's grasp until 1987. Though mostly known as a ...

59 year old Marie King has grown accustomed to life on Sydney's affluent North Shore. But now she's divorced from her husband and her kids have moved out. Her separation from her husband leaves her directionless and financially stretched, and the family house needs to be sold. Marie ends up in a bar ...

The highly acclaimed work of Palestinian poet and short story writer Taha Muhammed Ali is driven by a storyteller's vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Born in 1931 in rural Galilee, Taha Muhammed Ali was forced to flee to Lebanon along with his family when their village ...

On the eve of his 80th birthday, the eminent Australian conductor, Richard Boyngne, talks with the former Artistic Director of The Australian Opera (later Opera Australia), Moffatt Oxenbould, about his career and musical passions and his experiences working with some of the greatest operatic ...