Nalani

"Natala" is a gripping drama set on the island of Mata'ala, focusing on Nalani, the resolute daughter of the island's chief, and Elias Turnbull, a calculating foreign captain.

ETHEL'S STORY

At 17 Ethel is sent to live with her estranged father who has a history full of questions no one wants answered.

Ethel is someone who notices what others miss and acts on it.

The story that follows is told told music.

Dominic Ryker outside the supreme court of NSW. PixelStortion

Analysis | Negative Space: What The Early Spin on Ryker Doesn’t Say

The Ryker myth suggests that only a certain kind of man can “get things done,” and the rest of us should be grateful enough to stop asking questions. That bargain is how corners erode. It’s how a city wakes up twenty years later and wonders why the same names appear on every tender list.

Mara Quinn

Isla in a black leather jacket sings her track - "Polished Vomit Polished" at the metro theater in Sydney. Intense mood. PixelStortion

From Pymble to the Pit: How Isla Turned Silence Into Sound

There’s a point in every Isla song where you can feel her stop holding back. It’s not a scream, not exactly, but something older, more primal. There long before we had the words for it.

Eli Ward

Opinion | On Trial: A Nation’s Appetite for Tearing Down Its Builders

Australia needs people who can say yes when others stall. We need the doers—unyielding, imperfect, decisive. Ryker is one of those. He’s not a choirboy. He never claimed to be. But he built, he hired, he delivered. That matters.

Callum Rourke

Isla's Emotional Return to the Stage

Isla doesn’t sing for catharsis; she sings through it. She’s proof that some artists don’t survive to tell the story — they tell the story to survive.

Eliza Trenholm