Kerryn Goldsworthy
Let’s Get Our Hands Dirty: ABC TV’s 'Gardening Australia'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
“But that’s what this program’s about. It’s about action, and the sheer beauty of it,” said Peter Cundall recently in his introductory...
More ...The Dying of the Light: Philip Roth’s 'Everyman'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Two or three decades ago, my sisters and I would meanly poke fun at our mother when Christmas brought with it a swag of greeting cards...
More ...The First Woman: 'Commander in Chief'
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Poor old President Mackenzie Allen just never seems to get a quiet moment to herself. If it’s not a tanker threatening to leak oil up and...
More ...Television, Noted
Television programming: Channel 7; Channel 9; Channel 10
Kerryn Goldsworthy
These days even the most unsophisticated punter knows that when a TV station advises that a regular program will be shown ‘at the special...
More ...'Vulture'; 'Sunday Arts'; 'The Movie Show' on ABC-TV
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Any poet could have told the ABC that with a name like Vulture its new arts program was bound to get negative feedback. A vulture is an...
More ...Television, Arts & Letters
Queen Emily of the High Cs
Kerryn Goldsworthy
“Why are you wasting your time watching that appalling trash?” asked the music critic I recently got into a conversation with about...
More ...'A Current Affair' on Channel Nine / 'Today Tonight' on Channel Seven
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Among people who get their current affairs from the ABC or SBS, the consensus is that A Current Affair and Today Tonight rate their socks...
More ...The Nation Reviewed
Sundays in Paradise
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Paradise Community Church sits, appropriately enough, on acres of prime real estate. On a sunny Sunday morning it’s hard to find a space in...
More ...The Nation Reviewed
This is Your Afterlife
Kerryn Goldsworthy
In the course of her political career Pauline Hanson endured a range of unpleasantnesses, including death threats, jail strip-searches and...
More ...Drought Essay: Cambrai, South Australia
Kerryn Goldsworthy
On a Tuesday in June, only a day or two before it finally began to bucket down, an article appeared on page two of the Adelaide Advertiser...
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