Good Weekend

Rangers control a wildfire in the southern area of the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area, close to Kakadu.

Wildfire prevention: the heated debate

To control dangerous bushfires, swaths of Australian savanna are burnt each year. But is fighting fire with fire causing more damage than it prevents?

Mark Hodge, the late Daniel Scott and Trevor Ashley in the debut production of the musical that went on to tour the world.

Drama queens

It’s Australia’s most successful theatrical export, but Priscilla, Queen of the Desert nearly didn’t make it to the stage: 12 years on, its creators recall its nerve-wracking, spine-tingling birth.

UPFRONT

"I learnt to walk on a boat in the Solomon Islands," Cropp says of his seafaring childhood.

Dean Cropp

Three years ago, this underwater filmmaker and adventurer quit his day job. He now lives and works on a boat in Sydney Harbour.

Illustration by Simon Letch.

Take the bonus

Can I keep a bonus gift that came with an item I bought for someone else?

Illustration by Simon Letch.

It's only natural

For most of my life you would never have caught me naked around other people...

Illustration by Simon Letch.

Novel ideas

On holidays, there's one thing the brain does particularly well.

FOOD

YouTube sensation Nusret Gökçe, aka 'salt bae', does his thing.

Season to taste

Several cheffy tricks help truly capture salt's flavour-boosting power.

Bar Carolina, South Yarra.

Sepia and Bar Carolina

This week: South Yarra's summer-friendly Italian destination Bar Carolina, and the three-hat pleasures at Sydney's Sepia.