Issue 136

..election campaign characterised by profound shallowness and intellectual mediocrity by both political parties and the media, I wrote …..“Many years ago I recollect seeing in scratchy black and white an interview between Walter Cronkite and an aging Dean Acheson who had been the Secretary of State in the Truman Administration. He had played a central…

..three dimensional look. For those who didn’t do basic film studies a cel is a sheet of transparent cellulose acetate that it can be laid over other cels or a painted background, then photographed. The cels change subtly with each image so that the images flow almost naturally when projected at twenty-four frames per second….

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. however, as it was the subject of constant headlines and discussed in hushed tones by disquieted mums over cups of tea and soggy white cucumber sandwiches from Beaths to Ballantynes. Strangely however, I don’t once remember lesbianism being mentioned, either in conversation or in the media, confined as it…

..am easily led by my friends who think it will be a good thing and within my capabilities. The event takes two days and the first day goes from Bright, over Mount Hotham to Omeo. The second day goes from Omeo over the back road to Falls Creek and thence over Tawonga Gap back to…

Well, for one thing he’s usurped a traditional Rudd family name. My great-grandfather on my father’s side was named Minchin Rudd and my father still carries Minchin as his middle name. OK. In fact, I couldn’t give a fig about happenstance like that. It’s his talent I resent. M couldn’t have been absolutely riveted to…