The president of the United States did not have a high opinion of the prime minister of Australia. "A pestiferous varmint", he called him. But William Morris Hughes didn't give a damn what Woodrow Wilson thought of him. He'd been called a lot worse, after all, and it hadn't done him any harm. The Labor Party had declared him a "rat" and expelled him from its ranks - yet here he was, two years later, still the PM and now backed by a whopping parliamentary majority. The British foreign secretary, Lord Robert Cecil, described him as "...
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SlowTV: Shaun Tan in conversation
Shaun Tan | Melbourne | Sep. 2009
Part 1 | Part 2 US critic and writer Jessa Crispin (Bookslut) has long been an admirer of award-winning artist and author Shaun Tan. In this Melbourne Writers Festival session she speaks to Tan about his approach to making books and other art - his writing, illustrating, his influences and ideas. S... » play video



