The second recipe from Tassie cooks, photographers and mates Island Menu starts with a hunt for the elusive Striped trumpeter and ends up with a plate of tasty flathead. Samuel Shelley explains.

For 11 literary-packed days from May 23 to June 2, Melbourne's Emerging Writers' Festival will celebrate, support and cajole the words out of the nation's fledgling wordsmiths.

For a bunch of brewers on the cutting edge of the modern Australian brewing scene, the guys at Stone & Wood don't mind taking inspiration from Marsellus Wallace once in a while.

We all know that the twinkling of stars at night is caused by [looks up Wikipedia] atmospheric turbulence, right? But what if there was more to it? Say, alien Morse code?