CULTURE: Australian Television
CULTURE
The Kid Grows Up: Meeting Alex Dimitriades
Peter Robb
Nearing 40, a man’s body begins to die. The body knows this. So does the mind, though it can take a long time before the mind knows what it...
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CULTURE
'Outland' by Kevin Carlin
Benjamin Law
On paper, the premise of the new ABC1 sitcom Outland seems too self-consciously quirky for its own good. Homosexuals and sci-fi nerds?...
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CULTURE
'Cloudstreet' By Matthew Saville
MJ Hyland
Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet is a compassionate masterpiece, which is to Australians what George Orwell’s 1984 is to the English and Harper Lee...
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CULTURE
Can We Be Heroes?: Peter Conrad on Chris Lilley and the Politics of Comedy
Peter Conrad
Why indeed? Laughter is instinctive, and what it conveys is a flushed awareness of superiority. But there is more to it than one boy’s...
More ...Blanche’s Boy
Anna Krien
“Until recently I’ve been pretty half-hearted about Welcome to Country,” Jack Charles confesses as he faces a room of social workers at a...
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SOCIETY
Connective Tissue: 'Tangle' (Season Two) and 'Spirited'
Delia Falconer
All the bullies I remember from school had Ben Mendelsohn’s build: heavy-legged, thick-armed and slightly soft around the middle. Or...
More ...Cut!: Has the Australian film industry lost its way?
Peter Craven
When Mel Gibson, the man who had acted in Waiting for Godot with Rush many years before, handed him the Academy Award, he said, “I always...
More ...Crying Games
Edward Scheer
As viewers of this year’s Australian Open tennis tournament and the recent Commonwealth Games can attest, sportspeople crying on camera is...
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