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Quicksand: Notes from a media outsider and insider

by Bridget Griffen-Foley

This week on The ABR Podcast, Bridget Griffen-Foley reviews The Men Who Killed the News: The inside story of how media moguls abused their power, manipulated the truth and distorted democracy by Eric Beecher. Bridget Griffen-Foley is the founder of the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University and has recently co-edited the fifth edition of The Media and Communications in Australia. Listen to Bridget Griffen-Foley’s ‘Quicksand: Notes from a media outsider and insider’, published in the October issue of ABR.

 

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Architecture and the new national cultural policy

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14 March 2023
Max Dupain, portrait of Walter Gropius with Harry Seidler in Sydney inside the Julian Rose House, Wahroonga NSW
Architects and architectural culture do not slot easily into cultural policy. Those in other creative fields might well say the same, but the ambiguity around the professional and artistic identity of the architect amplifies the problem. Are architects artists? Or ‘creatives’, like those in advertising and marketing? ... (read more)

Labor's new National Cultural Policy

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Jennifer Mills on Labor's National Cultural Policy

This week the ABR Podcast considers Revive, Labor’s new National Cultural Policy. In a commentary for the March issue of ABR, Jennifer Mills, novelist and director of the Australian Society of Authors, separates the theatre from the substance at the launch of Revive. Mills asks how, precisely, Writers Australia will function, and whom it will benefit. Listen to Jennifer Mills reading ‘A revival meeting at the Espy: Labor’s new National Cultural Policy’.

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