Warwick McFadyen, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

The words that are not said at times speak more powerfully than those that are. Herewith a few words of …

The closure of Manus Island Detention Centre is a ‘process’ (for want of a better word)

“Everything is processing at this point.” Such is cruelty wrapped in the banal language of the bureaucrat who serves as …

The cut and thrust of parliamentary debate, such as the recent imbroglio involving Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy and her Deputy …

The Human Rights Council is . . . made up of 47 states responsible for the promotion and protection of all …

Verily, for though Tony Abbott lives among us, his spirit dwells in earlier times. It has the shape of a …

Update: This article was published before the announcement of British author Kazuo Ishiguro being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. …

*News of Tom Petty’s death has been confirmed since this story was published this morning I am listening to Tom …

It is a puny weapon in the scheme of things, and even smaller in the context of nuclear Armageddon, but …

Slide the CD into the player, find the symbol to stream. Click. The waves hit you. You go under. You …

Who sees beauty in death? Or rather who sees beauty in the bringers of death and destruction? A person of …