AustLit

'Elliot Hannay, a veteran former daily newspaper editor from north Queensland, has written a book with great good humour and larrikin common sense. The Colt With No Regrets is a memoir of decades well spent in regional journalism. It also tells younger readers how many of today’s issues arose in the media world of the 1950s and 1960s.' (Introduction)

Free-to-air A quartet of former housemates regroups nearly a decade later via an online chat room “bar” as the Australian lockdown closes in around them in Retrograde, an effervescent, culturally savvy six-episode comedy from the ABC that reaches its halfway point with Wednesday’s instalment and is worth catching up with as we lean into the maw of phase two.' (Introduction)