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 …