Last year a woman premier presented the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards at the Art Gallery. Tonight a non-Labor premier, just as rare a beast in the 10 of these dinners I’ve been to, did it at the Opera Point Marquee, … Continue reading
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Reading & watching- Total Control (directed by Rachel Perkins 2019) 17 October 2019Fabulous series in which Debora Mailman plays an Aboriginal woman from a tiny rural community who becomes a Senator for a conservative party.
- À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (Marcel Proust 1919) 15 October 2019The second of the seven books in À la recherche du temps perdu.
- Australian Poetry Journal 9.1: resist! (edited by John Kinsela 2019) 10 October 2019Reading this as part of the never-ending and enjoyable challenge of keeping up to date with journal subs.
- 2040 (Damon Gameau 2019) 9 October 2019I do wonder what Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, would think of this movie about changes that can happen to avert a climate catastrophe – distributed, renewable power grids, the end to private internal-combustion vehicles, regenerative farming, and so on. Dangerous reassurance, perhaps? But it does hold out hope – hope, as I understand it, […]
- Blak Brow (#40 of The Lifted Brow, 2018) 9 October 2019A special 'Blak Women's Edition' of The Lifted Brow. From the imprint page: 'BLAK, coined by artist Destiny deacon in 1990, names the lived experience and identity of urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.'
- Total Control (directed by Rachel Perkins 2019) 17 October 2019
