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Reviews, TV

The ABC’s Pine Gap is a stinker

Helen Razer

Australia is a wretched sunbed maintained by debt and founded in unspeakable acts of racist brutality. Even so, sometimes the …

News & Commentary

John McCain: the bits the unctuous obits leave out

Helen Razer

Prime Minister Scott Morrison may well be a churchy neoliberal with uncritical regard for US imperial cruelty. It is perhaps …

News & Commentary, Screen, TV

Tonightly not renewed by the gutless national broadcaster

Helen Razer

In mildly troubling news, ABC TV has failed to renew comic current affairs program, Tonightly. In a statement prepared today …

Music, News & Commentary, Screen, Stage, Visual Arts

A television critic answers her critics

Helen Razer

Across the years, there have been two primary questions prompted by my criticism here at Daily Review. One, “Why are …

News & Commentary, TV

Reality TV and middle-aged naked men are not the problem

Helen Razer

Some months ago, an imprudent hostess left my mouth empty too long and I began yelling at a fellow diner. …

News & Commentary, Screen, TV

Handmaid’s Tale finale: another TV experience best watched drunk

Helen Razer

When The Handmaid’s Tale debuted on screens last year, serious critics urged us to watch and serious feminists urged us to accept …

Screen, TV

The Logies: still pointless but making death less frightening

Helen Razer

Last night, dozens of Australians gave in to the choreography of the Logies. There are reports today that the spectacle is …

News & Commentary

The Melania Distraction, and other slogans

Helen Razer

Ours is an era of chaos. The old forms of political order are dying, the new are yet to find …

News & Commentary

Julian Assange is a journalist, not Putin’s bitch

Helen Razer

“Journalism is not a crime”. Really? I’d say this slogan is hardly unassailable. I’d say this slogan, which began to …

News & Commentary, Screen, TV

Annabel Crabb’s Back in Time for Dinner best served drunk

Helen Razer

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of ladies struggling to Lean In. This narrow principle informs …

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THE LIST

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A legal approach to the decline and fall of the United States

Kevin Brianton

Music, Reviews

Sleaford Mods ‘All That Glue’ review: a necessary album for fans and newcomers alike

Benjamin Woods

Books, Reviews

‘The Shifting Landscape’ review: Western Victoria crime novel showcases joy in storytelling

Rosemary Sorensen

News & Commentary

How did we get here? Why artists became so dispensable

Neil Pigot

Books, Music, Reviews

Kim Salmon and the Formula for Grunge: a fascinating read for fans and newcomers alike

Tony Thompson

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