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Latest blog [posts in the second week of my blog with Crikey “Truth to Tell” Two posts this week on a documentary series on the history of Australian theatre and on the power of stories through two powerful works: Rebecca Solnit’s book, “The Faraway Nearby” and Carol Morley’s doco “Dreams of a Life” ... Permalink
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Back on air after a break, looking at two doco series on the Queen – Trevor McDonald’s “Queen and Country” and “Our Queen”, which is currently airing on ABC. Second, looking at the amazing doco feature “Dreams of a Life”, which reconstructs the life and tragic death of Joyce Vincent, who died in 2003. Her decomposed corpse was found in her apartment 3 years later, with the TV and heater... Continue Reading
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My new blog on Crikey launched last week. The blog is Truth to Tell and it focusses on all forms of documentary and non-fiction books. Here is the first week’s worth of posts. The twitter handle for the blog is @truthtotellblog and the facebook is facebook.com/truthtotellblog Our Flirt with Dirt Mining and Australian history are inter-twined but are those ties comfortable or choking? An issue-mash on two new documentaries and... Continue Reading
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My review for Evgeny Morozov’s latest internet critique, now on New York Journal of Books “By way of basic introduction to Evgeny Morozov it is useful to link him to Marshall McLuhan. It was McLuhan who famously argued that the first wave of mass communication was marked by the omnipotence of the medium itself, not its content: the medium is the message (or the massage as he later put it). For Mr.... Continue Reading
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This week, Truth to Tell looks at the three-part documentary on mining in Australia “Dirty Business – How Mining Made Australia”. This appeared on SBS last year and is now on DVD. Also this week a look at some doco shorts on Afghanistan. There are so many war docos, but so few allow us to better understand the Afghan people who are forced to endure it all. Truth to Tell,... Continue Reading
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I ran this comment piece ran in the Sun-Herald Print issue and across the Fairfax stable online (eg The Age, Canberra Times etc). I thought the story of Len Waters is a poignant one – and likely oft repeated – and worth recalling amid the Anzac Day hubris we are likely to see this week. “There is a man who has his image on an Australian stamp, and has at... Continue Reading
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Here’s my review of Prokofiev’s “Cinderella” now showing at the Playhouse in Brisbane, run in today’s Crikey. “It betrays my less than classical upbringing when I admit that when the tense, rather fraught strains of Sergei Prokofiev’s Cinderella overture launched, I was thinking it sounded like a movie soundtrack; a romantic melodrama perhaps. By the time the first scene scurried into life, where the ugly sisters taunt Cinderella and vie for their step-father’s... Continue Reading
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Here’s my review in the TLS for FitzSimons’ weighty tome on the Eureka stockade. I didn’t take to the book much, not just because missed some important points, but because I thought its approach was populist and sensationalised. I like Peter’s columns in the sports section of the Fairfax press. I reckon he should stick to that. I expect my take on the stockaders – that they were perhaps closer... Continue Reading
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