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In the second week of the campaign, The Minister for Noise demonstrates the alchemy of empathy, noise and silence by squeezing the oxygen out of his body during his interview with the Federal Minister for Empathy. This is the latest in a series of videos in the lead-up to the Federal Election 2019 conducted by the recently
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Fifty years ago, a wind stirred, a slight breeze, a melodic air if you will. It rose and died. It barely touched the earth during its time of life. It was the sound and soul of Nick Drake. The young singer-songwriter released three albums from 1969 until 1972, the first when he was 21. He
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Given our Prime Ministerial candidates are competing for attention by posing in the same paddock of carrots a month apart, we thought we should fast-track this interview by the Federal Minister for Empathy* with a former PM to demonstrate what we have left behind and why. This is the latest in a series of videos in
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Back in 2016, Bendigo Writers Festival hosted an event with Julian Assange. Robert Manne had written a small book about the “Cypherpunk Revolutionary”, a typically well-researched and carefully argued description of how Assange came to create Wikileaks, so we set up an interview from the Ecuadorian Embassy. One of the positives about the internet (which
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The recently appointed Federal Minister for Empathy* speaks with The Minister No Longer about the confusion between people-smugglers and tourists. This is the third in a series of videos in the lead-up to the Federal Election 2019 conducted by the new Federal Minister for Empathy, David Pledger. Speaking with government ministers, Mr Pledger will tease
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Some people watch Game of Thrones purely for the swords, sex and dragons, others for the political manoeuvring, character interplay and dense themes. Most fall somewhere in between, but for those who are of the latter persuasion, this was as good as Game of Thrones gets. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was a delight from
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Humphrey Bower reviews the following shows from Dance Massive held at various venues in Melbourne, March 12-24: Luke George and Collaborators, Public Actions Atlanta Eke, The Tennis Piece Stephanie Lake, The Skeleton Tree Marrugeku, Le Dernier Appel/The Last Cry Joel Bray, Biladurang Russell Dumas, Cultural Residues 2020 * How can dance intervene in the world? And
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How did a precociously young British woman become one of the most performed contemporary playwrights in the English language theatre? Almost exclusively through merit, it must be said, so you can’t blame the Sydney Theatre Company for serving up a third Lucy Kirkwood play in as many years, following Chimerica in 2017 and The Children
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There are two ways to go with this: bite back a sob of nostalgia for an imagined past where teen hoodlums played hard (“Set ‘em up Doc. Cokes all around”) and danced hard, where two gangs could be quelled by one policeman; or rejoice in the ecstasy of sight, sound and movement, that is West Side
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Iggy Pop is perhaps the last of his kind. Certainly, the last of his kind still recording new music and touring – Bowie is dead, Lou Reed is dead, Lemmy is dead … Iggy Pop has been dubbed “the Godfather of Punk” for his role as frontman of The Stooges and it is his work
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