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Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre talks to Daily Review about his new book ‘The Power of Hope’. Kon Karapanagiotidis OAM is tired. He’s suffering a throat infection and has just returned from ten-day national book tour for The Power of Hope. Or How Community Love and Compassion can change the World.
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The Coalition government has tried to sell several national energy policies to parliament and to the public, and all have failed. We need a new national policy because the system we have is outdated and highly polluting, and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s latest Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg, is offering another born-to-fail system called a ‘National
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Last week, artist David Pledger applied for the position of CEO of funding body, the Australia Council for the Arts, by publishing his application for how to take the organistaion into the 21st Century on Daily Review. Pledger wrote a long and thorough brief of his vision to the new chair of the Australia Council, Sam Walsh, the
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When writers festivals began to take off big time about a decade ago, popping up like mushrooms in leaf litter after a warm autumnal rain, those with a conservative bent criticised them as wanky talkfests for worthy leftist ladies. When that cresting wave turned out to have behind it an even bigger, foam-tipped swell, it
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By Helen Razer
In mildly troubling news, ABC TV has failed to renew comic current affairs program, Tonightly. In a statement prepared today by cheerful bot, the Abysmal Bootlicker Crew alleges that it is grateful for the efforts of Tom Ballard and writing team, but that it is time, these many weeks into the project, “for a fresh
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And now, a change of pace. After three brooding operas this cold Sydney winter – a staid Lucia Di Lammermoor, a sombre Rigoletto and a dazzlingly dark Aida – levity arrives in the form of one of Gioachino Rossini’s least remembered operas. The Turk In Italy is little performed for some good reasons. But this
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Finger clicks to Sydney’s newest jazz club, the Eternity Playhouse, which is gently swaying to some very smooth sounds. The American songbook – Gershwin, Porter, Holliday and the like – is in the capable hands of top-rate crooners channelling love and loss in the smoky, dimly lit confines. Which would be a great night out
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Do you perchance recall carefree Prime Times past? Simple evenings tuning in to a special appointment viewing? The Bachelor on commercial television; on an actual television? All this was before a reality TV star became the leader of the free world, before Netflix and chill, before the mores that once held reality in place were cut
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Some voices are like old friends, familiar at once not broken by time or distance. The singing voice that rises and falls to the ocean within is an especial welcome visitor. John Schumann, welcome, come in. Sing us your songs. He is here once more with his Vagabond Crew and the new CD Ghosts and
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In the ’90s, Australia’s love affair with local no frills pub rock bands expanded to embrace “alternative” rockers Silverchair, as well as eclectic acts like Spiderbait and industrial rock rabble rousers, Insurge. There was an alternative rock revolution going on around the world at this time. Doubtless, the most popular act of the weirder fringe
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