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The Push - Australia's Culture PortalBrian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
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John Tranter site - John Tranter reviews «Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push» (website John Tranter )Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push by Anne Coombs. They were the Sydney Push, a loose and changing group of bohemian intellectuals, university lecturers, adventurous secretaries, journalists, gamblers, writers, free-thinking businessme...
InformationMargaret Fink (b.1933) is a former film producer. After a varied career including stints as a clothes designer and art teacher, Fink produced her first feature film, The Removalists, in 1975. Her collaboration with the young Gillian Armstrong...
In November 1973 her younger brother Jack set up the Lillian Roxon Memorial Asthma Research Trust in Melbourne to help Australian researchers to study overseas. In 1998 Yvonne Ruskin, in her book, High on Rebellion (New York), called Lillian Roxon the 'm...
InformationRobert Hughes AO (b. 1938) is the senior art critic for Time magazine. Born in Sydney, Hughes was educated at Riverview and Sydney University, although he did not complete a degree. ...
InformationRobert Hughes AO (b. 1938) is the senior art critic for Time magazine. Born in Sydney, Hughes was educated at Riverview and Sydney University, although he did not complete a degree. ...
InformationRobert Hughes AO (b. Born in Sydney, Hughes was educated at Riverview and Sydney University, although he did not complete a degree. Bill Leak started work on this portrait in 1999, as Hughes began filming his television series on Australia Be...
BOGLE, GILBERT STANLEY (1924-1963), physicist, was born on 5 January 1924 at Wanganui, New Zealand, fourth child of Archibald Hugh Bogle, licensed surveyor, and his wife Bertha Isabel Langley, n. Bogle had applied for a position as senior research officer...
BOGLE, GILBERT STANLEY (1924-1963), physicist, was born on 5 January 1924 at Wanganui, New Zealand, fourth child of Archibald Hugh Bogle, licensed surveyor, and his wife Bertha Isabel Langley, n. Bogle had applied for a position as senior research officer...
Nat Oliver's jazz band, Sydney, 1959 [picture] / Jeff Carter. Carter, Jeff, 1928- Jeff Carter collection of photographs, 1952-2002. Part of collection: Jeff Carter collection of photographs, 1952-2002. ...
Last Friday, former Prime Minister Paul Keating described McGuiness in colourful terms in the Australian Financial Review, a newspaper McGuinness once edited. >>Philip Adams remembers also:>> Philip Adams wrote in The Australian last> week about the defa...
<br/> From Palgrave to poetry, politics to film, PP McGuinness' private collection spanned all genres of literature and thought, and influenced McGuinness’s contribution to Australian intellectual history. Novelist, short story writer and essayist B...
MUCH has been written about this book and its unique subject, the poet Shelton Lea, who passed away in 2005. Georgeff has written a tremendously engaging account of one poet’s life, without overly romanticising her subject, and has refrained from w...
MUCH has been written about this book and its unique subject, the poet Shelton Lea, who passed away in 2005. Georgeff has written a tremendously engaging account of one poet’s life, without overly romanticising her subject, and has refrained from w...
Claims made by many Australian commentators are contested in Overland 171: Old wounds. STEPHEN GRAY discusses the book while STEVE HEMMING exposes the arch-conservative politics driving the SA Museum´s Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery and the conse...
Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
This month, the Newcastle Jazz Festival (24-26 August) brings together jazz and blues musicians of local and national note. Hope and hardship, war and loss, and heroes and villains are featured in 'National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries', in...
In partnership with Screen NSW and Screen Australia, Metro Screen launches the Breaks programs. ProjectLillian Roxon: The Mother of RockFundDevelopmentYear2007TypeFactual ProgramCompanyLowlands Media P/LDirectorKathy DraytonProducerRobert De YoungWriterKa...
In partnership with Screen NSW and Screen Australia, Metro Screen launches the Breaks programs. ProjectLillian Roxon: The Mother of RockFundDevelopmentYear2007TypeFactual ProgramCompanyLowlands Media P/LDirectorKathy DraytonProducerRobert De YoungWriterKa...
In partnership with Screen NSW and Screen Australia, Metro Screen launches the Breaks programs. ProjectLillian Roxon: The Mother of RockFundDevelopmentYear2007TypeFactual ProgramCompanyLowlands Media P/LDirectorKathy DraytonProducerRobert De YoungWriterKa...
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