'Don't say his name' — 30 years on from Port Arthur

Today marks three decades years since a gunman opened fire at Tasmania’s historic Port Arthur jail killing 35 people. It was an unfathomable tragedy forever etched into the psyche of a nation. In the wake of this horror, we’ve learnt how to mourn and honour the dead, but we struggle with how to speak - or not to speak - of the perpetrator. In 2012 Tom Teeves lost his son in a mass shooting in Colorado. Since then he's made it his mission to prevent the fame and notoriety that so often motivates mass murderers. Palestinians have cast a ballot in local elections in Gaza and the West Bank  for the first time in twenty-years, a cause for celebration or cynicism? Dr Mustafa Barghouti is the secretary general of the Palestinian National Initiative which boycotted the vote. He asks what is the point of participation without power?  The more things change the more they stay the same: two and half thousand years after Homer wrote The Iliad, the story of rage and the futility of war is as current as ever. In his new solo show with the Sydney Theatre Company, David Wenham is re imagining the epic poem for a modern audience.