aCOMMENT publishes research, essays and opinion on the Ern Malley affair, Sidney Nolan, Heide and the little magazine Comment. It was researched, written and maintained by David Rainey from 2011 until his death in 2024, and is now preserved by his family as a permanent archive of his work.
Everything here was written in good faith, with sources acknowledged in endnotes wherever possible. Some pieces deliberately blend scholarship with imagination — where that happens, the text says so. As with any work of research and interpretation, errors are possible; the author can no longer correct or respond to them, so the site is presented as it stood, and readers should weigh it accordingly.
The site is no longer updated. Links to other websites worked when the essays were written but may have lapsed since.