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Newsletter 498
Saturday, July 8th, 2023 Newsletter,It’s another world-turned-upside down week, with former NSW Premier, St. Gladys, indicted by the ICAC for corruption, after helping her boyfriend, Dazza Maguire, supply his local electorate with a high-priced clay pigeon shooters’ facility and a conservatorium. Something for everyone, really. Although Dazz will be having his day in court, St. Gladys has been absolved […]
Newsletter 497
Monday, June 26th, 2023 Newsletter,It’s ironic that no sooner has Labor come to power and promised to restore the ABC funding so ruthlessly stripped away by Scummo’s mob, than the broadcaster stages its own Night of the Long Knives. It may have been a surprise the ABC decided it didn’t need a political editor any more, and could therefore […]
Newsletter 496
Monday, June 19th, 2023 Newsletter,My old home town is in the news again, for the worst of reasons. The bus crash in which ten people died has dominated the headlines. We’ve heard all the predictable stuff about how this a tragedy for a “close-knit community”, the local state and federal members have expressed their horror at the event, sent […]
Newsletter 495
Monday, June 12th, 2023 Newsletter,Had I stayed a little bit longer in New York, I would’ve been able to see It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby at the Brooklyn Museum. It’s another matter altogether whether I could have actually brought myself to visit this show. The BM has called the project “experimental” and “conversational”. Most of the reviews […]
Newsletter 494
Monday, June 5th, 2023 Newsletter,It’s time for another look at the Powerhouse Museum saga. I know current management has dispensed altogether with the idea of a museum, and is now calling the institution simply “Powerhouse” – like “Tate” or “Sting” or “Prince”. Being an old-fashioned kind of guy, I can’t help thinking of the place as a museum, even […]
Newsletter 493
Monday, May 29th, 2023 Newsletter,Am I the only one who doesn’t understand what’s going on with the ABC and Stan Grant? Not being enamoured of all the pomp and pageantry of the Monarchy, I didn’t tune in to the Coronation ceremonies. But after the ABC received more than a thousand complaints, I wondered whether I’d missed anything, and so […]
Newsletter 491
Monday, May 15th, 2023 Newsletter,It used to be that when you told someone you were off America for a couple of weeks, they’d say: “Wow! Lucky you! I wish I was going.. etc.” Now they say: “Oh my God! It’s so dangerous. Look out for all those crazy people with guns. Don’t go near any schools or supermarkets!” Such […]
Newsletter 490
Monday, May 8th, 2023 Newsletter,I’m on a plane to the United States, and like all weeks leading up to a trip, it’s been mayhem. If this one has been especially testing it’s because I’ve been trying to finish a monograph on George Haynes, an artist of huge importance in Western Australia who has been alternately noticed and ignored in […]
Newsletter 489
Monday, May 1st, 2023 Newsletter,It’s been a busy week, as usual, with a “buried” report on the Powerhouse Museum being revealed, that basically recommends against the proposed $500 million vandalism that is still being ruthlesssly pushed forward in the hope that the new Labor government will find it all too hard to stop. That’s exactly what has happened with […]
Newsletter 488
Monday, April 24th, 2023 Newsletter,Well, I didn’t expect last week’s newsletter to be plastered all over The Australian, but I understand how Greg Bearup must be looking for a little support by now, as other media outlets continue to ignore his big APY investigation. This is an issue that needs to be sorted out, not swept under the carpet, […]