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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 13:33
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(by Laurel McGowan) In a week that launches a TV sequel to Kathy Lette’s novel Puberty Blues, about female teenage coastal life at the Southern edge of Sydney’s sprawling metropolis, Jack Ellis gives us female teenage coastal life from its Northern tip in his The Best Feeling of All (Arcadia). But, thank goodness, it’s contemporary rather than a nostalgic memoir with point-at “so cute” retro fashions and gasp-at “so wacked” retro morals. |
Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 13:30
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(From And So It Went) |
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Political Owl
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 12:37
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With the British corporate bookmakers now dominating the trade in Australia would-be customers should note this story from Britain’s Observer showing that it is not just bankers who can clip a client’s deposit account:
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Café Whispers
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 12:14
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Café Whispers
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 12:14
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The Tally Room
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 12:00
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The Liberal Party’s Tim Whetstone won the seat in 2010, defeating Karlene Maywald, who was the sole parliamentary representative of the National Party, and a minister in the Labor-led government. |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 08:59
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The world which the director draws us into is a summer holiday on a topical island — Rottnest, Oahu, Jamaica — in, maybe, 1958: modest bikinis, surfboards, beach balls tossed at the audience, and a lazy, gropey, suncream-rubbing eroticism like the Corona commercial, ‘from where you’d rather be’, plus the shallow, jangling pop songs (Cliff Richard, Annette Funicello) of the day. |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 08:48
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Sally McManus is the Secretary of the Australian Services Union in NSW and the ACT. |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 07:38
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I knew Wendy Hughes well, wrote or co-wrote three roles for her, directed her in a movie, lived across the road from her and Chris Haywood in Palm Beach for a while…More to come. |
you said it...
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 01:32
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Oh dear… |
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you said it...
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 01:32
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Oh dear… |
MacroBusiness
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 01:08
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By Leith van Onselen Fairfax ran a detailed article over the weekend lamenting the high cost of childcare, which is becoming a growing burden for both the federal government and Australian families: …every day, where the need for parents to find and turn up to work collides with the reality of the Australian childcare sector’s [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
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North Coast Voices
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 00:16
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The Daily Telegraph 6 March 2014:
FORMER resources minister Chris Hartcher had dinner at the home of a mining company lobbyist with mining executives who were trying to win approval for an $800 million mine. |
North Coast Voices
Sunday, March 9, 2014 - 00:15
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On 9 October 2012 then Prime Minister Julia Gillard rose to her feet in the House of Representatives calling then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott for what he is in the eyes of many and, a fifteen minute description of him as 'sexist' and 'misogynist' entered the permanent parliamentary historical record, Hansard.
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Political Owl
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 22:52
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The Pew Research Center, in a major study of the differences in views between generations, describes the Millennial generation as forging a distinctive path into adulthood.
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Political Owl
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 19:27
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Tidal flooding in the Marshall Islands this week – the third time this year for the capital of Majuro atoll – rated a brief mention on the overseas services of Australia’s ABC but was ignored by local mainstream media. Small natural disasters just aren’t newsworthy even if they do provide evidence of the damage being caused by rising sea levels. |
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Political Owl
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 17:05
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After last September’s federal election it was possible to think that the Green vote in Tasmania was about to sink away. The party’s Senate share fell to 11.1%, down from the 20.3% recorded in 2010 and its lowest this century. Perhaps the state election would see the Greens reduced to a meagre rump. |
Political Owl
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 12:12
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 It rather looks as if once again it will be left to independent Senator Nick Xenophon in Australia to dare to criticise the continuing prosecution of the prominent Malaysian opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim. |
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The Tally Room
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 12:00
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The Liberal Party’s Peter Treloar won the seat in 2010, and holds it by a 26.2% margin. |
En Passant
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 10:26
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Every year I re-publish this article on IWD. I have updated it again but may have missed some detail. Feel free to make suggestions for improvement. John _____________ International Women’s Day has a revolutionary history. After the Socialist Party of the US organised a demonstration for women workers in 1909, German communist Clara Zetkin put the proposal to hold a day of international solidarity among and with working women to an International Conference of Socialist Women in 1910. |
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MacroBusiness
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 10:21
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Europe Sanctions – not Draghi: Ukrainian tensions could have serious implications for Europe Russia vs. The US: Superpowers Bluff Over Ukraine? Obama is unleashing the wrong energy weapon against Putin–he should use oil Unsterilised ECB? Ukraine tensions expose fault line in Russia’s economy Ukraine’s depressing economic bind – and sovereign default risk Europe’s Middle-Age Trap [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] |
The Australian Independent Media Network
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 10:02
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There was a bit of discussion on a Facebook page where some people expressed concern at others who were attacking Gina’s weight and appearance. The general gist of them was that the Right won’t be defeated if we all emulate them. The “be the change you want to see in the world” philosophy. |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 07:51
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Cheating as always, ReachTel finds 47.4 percent of Tasmanians voting Liberal, 23.6 percent Labor, 18.2 percent Greens and 6.7 PUP. Machines rang landlines on Thursday, late shopping night, while the Debate was proceeding, and got those uninterested in it, and not on a mobile, and not preparing dinner, or still at work, or driving home, and, sure enough, these underoccupied nonagenarians favoured the Liberals. Similar machine-Thursday-landline polling in August by Lonergan, ReachTel and Galaxy had Rudd, Swan, Clare, Burke, Bowen, Dreyfus and Albo losing their seats. |
Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 06:06
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(First published by Independent Australia) In a bad, bad week Winston Smith might think normal on Airstrip One, seventeen Orwellian events occurred and went mostly unremarked. (1) Kieran Gilbert said Will Hodgman ‘won’ his debate with Lara Giddings though their ‘undecided’ jury gave him 28 votes and her 62. (2) A Prime Minister said he was ‘liberating’ an airline by engineering the sale of it to other governments, and called ‘insulting’ the idea, the very idea, of Australian engineers on good wages with ninety years’ experience who kept that airline safer than foreign engineers on cheap wages with no experience. |
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Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 06:01
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Rake embellishes Sydney and its buccaneering stumblefootedness like no other comedy-drama. Roxburgh’s fumbling rogue, in equal parts Hamlet, Feste, Mo McCacky and Harold Hill, has an intimate force like Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces and O’Toole in My Favourite Year, and his attendant, defiant ensemble of first-rate uppity actors (including, for a minute, Cate Blanchett) and pitch-perfect writers and directors comprise an experience unlike…anything really, except, perhaps, an unlikely amalgam of Casablanca, Duck Soup, Guys and Dolls and State and Main. |
Hoyden About Town
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 06:00
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Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you'd like to... [This content summary is customised for content-aggregator sites. Click through to http://hoydenabouttown.com to read the full post.] |
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Hoyden About Town
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 06:00
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Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Is there anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Reading a good book (or a bad one)? Anything in the news that you'd like to... [This content summary is customised for content-aggregator sites. Click through to http://hoydenabouttown.com to read the full post.] |
Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 05:03
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What were the two mistaken film prizes in Cannes, 1980? |
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Poll Bludger
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 04:29
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With exactly a week to go, two general matters to relate: • The Poll Bludger state election guide now comes equipped with a comprehensive review of the Legislative Council. |
Table Talk: Bob Ellis on Film and Theatre
Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 04:29
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On Sky News tonight Abbott’s first six months was trenchantly assessed by…his sister. She said she couldn’t for the life of her think of anything he’d done wrong except, maybe…just maybe…not having enough women in his ministry. The host, Chris Kenny, said Scott Ludlam saying he was a racist (no, he didn’t) and a homophobe (doesn’t want gays to marry, looks like he is) and going after unions (always has) was wrong, and a scandalous way to talk of our Prime Minister, he should show more respect, we all should show more respect… |
