Search Results: celebrity
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 August 2011
12 Comments
The image of journalism that has dominated the news in the last month has been one of grubbiness, corruption and cover-ups. The of ABC journalist Paul Lockyer in a helicopter crash reminds us how much we are indebted to ordinary, decent and self-effacing journalists.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 July 2011
4 Comments
It sometimes seems celebrities are public property. News of the death of British singer Amy Winehouse was met with both grief and jokes. Hearing her father Mitch speak of her as any father would about a child who has died prematurely, grounds her.
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MEDIA
- Ellena Savage
- 29 April 2011
47 Comments
Previously, monarchists and the ambivalent masses alike could argue that the British royal family was effectively benevolent and benign. The banning of The Chaser's royal wedding commentary is a jolt back to reality.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 January 2011
4 Comments
When celebrities who have treated people violently suffer themselves from violence, their suffering is approved because it is an expected part of the plot. The death of Carl Williams has been covered as if it were an episode of Underbelly. Williams deserves better than this.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 December 2010
14 Comments
Winfrey's style is confessional in therapeutic mode. Wikileaks is confessional in a heroic mode. Winfrey will be feted in Australia, while Julian Assange's enterprise will, one way or another, be brought to an end. The grace he offers is not cheap enough.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Lost — Waiting for Spring — God owes me Royalties — Niche — Folding & Flying — Judas and Jezebel — Donne captains a ship of fools — Home — Loose Change — election
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 11 October 2010
26 Comments
Robertson may be a celebrity QC, but historian he is certainly not. He touts the notion that the Vatican is not a real state and that as a consequence Benedict XVI should not be granted immunity from prosecution for his alleged responsibility in covering up clerical sexual abuse.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 August 2010
7 Comments
Ben Cousins is no angel, but neither is he a
demon; just a man with a problem that he's fought to contain.
His story has mirrors in the lives of many people who have battled
addiction. Seven's treatment of it borders on exploitative.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sasha Shtargot
- 04 August 2010
4 Comments
You don't get many words out of him, and when he does speak they always end in a question. 'It's gonna cost a lot to get new tyres, knowata mean? You're better off getting re-treads, knowata mean?' In our society there are hundreds of jobs that barely rate a mention, and armies of unsung workers who keep it functioning and well-oiled.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ashleigh Green
- 03 August 2010
20 Comments
Since being sworn into power on 24 June, Gillard has faced questions regarding her unmarried status, her decision to remain childless and her physical appearance. It is possible that our obsession with the private lives of celebrities and politicians stems from the lack of real intimacy in today's society.
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MEDIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 16 July 2010
6 Comments
The decision by a Swiss judge not to extradite film director Roman Polanski to the US has again triggered the debate about how artists are treated by the law. The case has been running simultaneously to that of Russian musician. The parallels are striking.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 07 July 2010
10 Comments
When you love, you must be prepared to die another death before you die
your own. Five minutes before 19-year-old Aristomenis died, he called in at his mother's place of work
to tell her he thought the exam had gone well.
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