Film, Music, News & Commentary, Recorded, Screen FIlm: Scorsese’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story’ Warwick McFadyen The rhythm of the times is always changing. One minute, it’s a heartbeat away from nuclear oblivion, the next it’s …
Music, Recorded Remembering Nick Drake: English pastoral on six strings Warwick McFadyen Fifty years ago, a wind stirred, a slight breeze, a melodic air if you will. It rose and died. It …
News & Commentary Is poetry rising from its slumber? Warwick McFadyen “Poetry is resonating with people who are looking for understanding. It is a really good way to explore complex, difficult …
News & Commentary The egg in Australian politics: from Billy Hughes to Fraser Anning Warwick McFadyen Here’s to the 17-year-old teenager who slammed a raw egg into the head of Senator Fraser Anning at the weekend. …
News & Commentary Christchurch: Reality TV from hell Warwick McFadyen And so shock dies. This is the shock we used to know to define our state of being at witnessing …
News & Commentary PM Scott Morrison and his Merry Men of the Oversight Warwick McFadyen Alas and alack to be these three syllables: oversight. It’d be exhausting. The work never stops. You get hauled out of …
Music, Recorded Joni Mitchell at 75, still speaking power to the song Warwick McFadyen Four years ago Joni Mitchell’s voice fell silent to the world, the victim, with her body, of a brain aneurysm. …
News & Commentary Who’s as dumb as a rock? Warwick McFadyen How dumb is a rock? The time has come for an answer. We simply cannot have the US President, Donald …
News & Commentary Julia Banks: an assassination of the Liberal Party by words Warwick McFadyen “The gift of time in reflection has provided some clarity …” It reads as the opening words of a philosopher, …
News & Commentary Terror, love and the city within Warwick McFadyen Terror comes in waves. The first is the bullet, knife or bomb. Then, the maiming or the death. Then there …