Alan Saunders
Masterpieces, Arts & Letters
Design Masterpiece: Marc Newson - 'Qantas A380 Economy Seat', 2008
Alan Saunders
Most designers like to design a chair or two in their career. Marc Newson began his with the famous Lockheed Lounge in 1986 and went on to...
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Arts & Letters
Food for Thought: The State of Design Festival
Alan Saunders
In discussions about contemporary Australian design, the name of the nineteenth-century American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce is, it’...
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Something about Mary: PL Travers and Mary Poppins
Alan Saunders
“I’ll stay till the wind changes,” says Mary Poppins to the Banks children after she swept in on the east wind and, overwhelming Mrs Banks...
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The Nation Reviewed
Strictly Speaking
Alan Saunders
“I’m not going to bore you with a lot of oratory, because I’m not an orator,” Sir Les Patterson once remarked. “I’m an Australian...
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The Nation Reviewed, Television
Good Neighbours
Alan Saunders
Eugene Kamenka, supervisor of my doctorate at ANU, expert on Marxian thought and a man who would never have thought his name would appear...
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The Nation Reviewed
Tried Again
Alan Saunders
Well, at least nobody had to wear tights. We were all clad in a seemly manner – academic robes for most of us – when we stepped onto the...
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School for Gangsters: 'Underbelly' and 'The Wire'
Alan Saunders
“Was that like a movie or what?” says one young thug to another after a shoot-up at a petrol station. We’re in the middle of the Melbourne...
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The Nation Reviewed
Socratic Dialogues
Alan Saunders
“My idea of heaven is sitting in my garden with the sun on my back, a cup of tea and someone I love,” says a woman at the back of the room...
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The Nation Reviewed
City Lights
Alan Saunders
“We’re in the renaissance period of artificial light at night,” says composer and light designer Mary-Anne Kyriakou. “If the city at night...
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Last Man Standing: Alistair Cooke’s 'Reporting America'
Alan Saunders
This book arrived on my desk during the week of the American presidential election, and it was still there a couple of days later when I...
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