Australian Museum director, Clean Up Australia co-founder, book author and an OA: Kim McKay has a lengthy list of achievements.

There's the Torah Animal World in Brooklyn, where a rabbi has collected taxidermy specimens of all the beasts on Noah's Ark; the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in New Delhi and the Cupnoodles Museum in Osaka.

No exhibition of Australian art has been more mythologised than The Field, and five decades on the NGV has made a magnificent attempt to reconstruct it.

No exhibition of Australian art has been more mythologised than The Field, and five decades on the NGV has made a magnificent attempt to reconstruct it.

It was a cockatiel named Tikki who triggered Charles Purcell's passion for birdwatching.

It was a cockatiel named Tikki who triggered Charles Purcell's passion for birdwatching.

Sydney's social climbers will have to tackle Everest itself come October if they intend to be within the rarefied orbit of the world's hottest couple.

Sydney's social climbers will have to tackle Everest itself come October if they intend to be within the rarefied orbit of the world's hottest couple.

"It's a horrible feeling. Generally, I cope," the virtuoso says. "But there was one concert last year when I felt I didn't play my best because I just couldn't relax. I was too nervous."

"I certainly never made the decision to sacrifice my career and my work," Lionel Shriver says.