CULTURE: TV
SOCIETY
Lies that Tell the Truth: The paradox of art and creative writing
Simon Leys
This essay was originally an address to the annual conference of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where its title, at the request of...
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CULTURE
Directing Cloudstreet. Matthew Saville
The novel Cloudstreet , one of Australia's most loved and most acclaimed novels, has been made into a 6-hour television mini-series...
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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...
More ...The Gaza Strips
Christos Tsiolkas
I’m ageing; I’m becoming the old fart I never wished to be. I am succumbing to nostalgia and its lethal evil twin, bitterness. I listen to...
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CULTURE
A whiter shade of pale. Christian Lander and John Safran (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2 The Wheeler Centre hosts this conversation between John Safran, one of the whitest men in Australia, and Christian Lander,...
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CULTURE
A whiter shade of pale. Christian Lander and John Safran
Part 1 | Part 2 The Wheeler Centre hosts this conversation between John Safran, one of the whitest men in Australia, and Christian Lander,...
More ...Quaint Misogyny: 'Mad Men: Season Four'
Kirsten Tranter
Let the cocktail theme parties begin.Season Two is still showing here on SBS but in July the fourth season of the award-winning cult series...
More ...The Politics of Prose: David Grossman's 'To the End of the Land'
Inga Clendinnen
The Israeli novelist David Grossman leapt to international attention in the late ’80s with the release of his See Under: Love, translated...
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POLITICS
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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Through a Glass Brightly: Andrea Arnold’s 'Fish Tank' and Tom Ford’s 'A Single Man'
Luke Davies
“Life’s a bitch ’n’ then you die,” sings the rapper Nas on the soundtrack of Fish Tank (released nationally on 11 March), Andrea Arnold’s...
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CULTURE
Mad Men: A conversation with creator Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking at the SPAA Conference 2009, Matthew Weiner talks about Mad Men, the television series he created to such acclaim....
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CULTURE
Mad Men: A conversation with creator Matthew Weiner (p2)
Matthew Weiner
Part 1 | Part 2 Speaking at the SPAA Conference 2009, Matthew Weiner talks about Mad Men, the television series he created to such acclaim....
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POLITICS
Pirate Politics
Charles Firth
By this time next year, Australia’s political system could be controlled by pirates. In June this year, Sweden’s Pirate Party secured 7.1%...
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SOCIETY
Norman Gunston & Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa was no stranger to Australia and its wildlife. Inspired by a monotreme encountered during his 1973 tour, the avant-rock...
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