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Christopher Kremmer

SlowTV: Christopher Kremmer on Greed. Sydney PEN Voices: 3 Writers Project

Christopher Kremmer | Sydney | Aug. 2008

In this lecture entitled "The Good, the Bad and the Greedy", acclaimed Australiam journalist and writer Christopher Kremmer (The Carpet Wars, Inhaling Mahatma) presents a broad-ranging meditation on the notion of greed: its global and local impacts, its moral significance, and the history an... » play video
SlowTV: Christopher Kremmer on Greed (Part 2)

Christopher Kremmer | Sydney | Aug. 2008

In this lecture entitled "The Good, the Bad and the Greedy", acclaimed Australiam journalist and writer Christopher Kremmer (The Carpet Wars, Inhaling Mahatma) presents a broad-ranging meditation on the notion of greed: its global and local impacts, its moral significance, and the history an... » play video

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Alfred Deakin occupied many notable posts and earned several memorable sobriquets in his long and distinguished public career. Member for Ballarat, Minister for Public Works and Water Supply, Chief Secretary and Solicitor-General of Victoria, Executive Chairman of the Federation League, first Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Prime Minister three times. Affable Alfred, Father of Irrigation.

An omnivorous reader and assiduous writer, Deakin filled an endless stream of notebooks and diaries; subsisted for a time as a journalist; contributed ‘secret'...

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Jacques Audiard's 'A Prophet' and John Hillcoat's 'The Road'

In A Prophet, a dazzling new film about innocence and power from Jacques Audiard (director of The Beat My Heart Skipped, 2005), 19-year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim) is about to embark on a six-year prison sentence for assaulting a cop. Polite and deferential, Malik is hard to read at first. The little we glean about his life is framed in terms of negatives: he has no contacts, no relatives; he didn’t grow up with his parents, but in juvenile centres. If he’s experiencing fear as he enters the chaos of the prison at Brécourt, he doesn’t show it. He’...

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