Keywords: Eureka Street Radio
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 December 2007
In the world of popular music, the transition from intimate theatre or festival gigs, to stadium rock shows, indicates the move from an authentic emphasis on great music, to 'music as spectacle', or pure commerce. It appears Missy Higgins has reached this point.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 December 2007
4 Comments
Maxine McKew knows that the best TV and radio interviewers are those with the greatest ability to listen to their guest. Listening was her winning strategy against the former prime minister in Bennelong.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 December 2007
Live Earth had united popular musicians around the world for a series of concerts highlighting climate change. In an oblivious act of irony they had contributed, on several levels, to the very problem they were trying to confront.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 October 2007
11 Comments
The Chaser's 'Eulogy' was less about the celebrities whose deaths it celebrated, than it was about public perceptions of those celebrities. The desire to puncture the 'cult of celebrity' is a major plank in the Chaser's War.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
For most Australians, endearing naughtiness was the beginning an end of the Kevin Rudd sex club story. What was sadly overlooked was the de facto promotion of the sex industry, and implicit toleration of the damage it does to human dignity and the long struggle to ensure that women are not looked upon as sex objects.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 27 June 2007
See Judge Act forms the template of a strand of Catholic social activism. Brendan Keilar, the Melbourne good Samaritan who was fatally shot this month, did exactly this, in very fast motion.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 June 2007
3 Comments
Rural landowners are planning a day of "civil obedience" on 1 July to assert what they believe is their right to clear native vegetation from their land. How is this different from the civil disobedience of anti-war protestors such as the Pine Gap Four?
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RELIGION
- Richard Treloar
- 18 May 2007
2 Comments
Was Triple J's Jesus impersonation contest in Melbourne's Federation Square on the day before Good Friday merely a revival of the 'carnivalesque' tradition of playful irreverence that is linked with a destruction and uncrowning related to birth and renewal.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- James Massola
- 17 May 2007
James Massola is National Affairs editor for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, based in Canberra. He has previously been South-East Asia Correspondent, based in Jakarta, and Chief Political Correspondent in Canberra. He has also worked for The Canberra Times, The Australian, the Australian Financial Review, as assistant editor of Eureka Street and is a regular commentator on ABC radio and TV. He is also the author ofThe Great Cave Rescue about the Thai boys football team.
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INFORMATION
- Matthew Klugman; Maree Nutt; Fr John Hill, Emily Millane
- 19 June 2006
Letters from Matthew Klugman; Maree Nutt; Fr John Hill, Emily Millane
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MEDIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 May 2006
2 Comments
Last month, Communications Minister Helen Coonan put industry interests ahead of those of listeners when she announced a comparatively distant launch date for digital radio, and said it is highly likely current analogue services will never be switched off.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 14 May 2006
For at least the past 20 years, people have predicted the demise of the newspaper, the magazine, and, probably, ultimately, the book. I do not believe it for a second.
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