The Arts

No country for older women: @burgewords explores @Foxtel casting mystery

April 20, 2017

The strategy behind the casting of younger women will take some explaining. IN February, Foxtel and Fremantle Media Australia announced the casting of an eagerly anticipated television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay’s 1967 Australian novel about a group of schoolgirls and their governess who go missing at a local rock formation on Valentine’s Day, 1900. This fictional story was hauntingly filmed in […]

Filed Under: #auspol, Front Page, Michael Burge, The Arts Tagged With: Ageism, Agism, Anna McGahan, Appleyard College, casting, Foxtel, FremantleMedia, Joan Lindsay, Miss McGraw, Mrs Appleyard, Natalie Dormer, Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Rachel Roberts, Sibylla Budd, television production, Vivean Grey

I am my first book: @burgewords reports from #bwf16

September 10, 2016

We were inside the building. We belonged, inasmuch as new students belong in new classrooms when they change schools UNDER the general theme of ‘belonging’, the 2016 Brisbane Writer’s Festival (BWF) set itself up with few boundaries, and writers have been rushing to traverse the intentionally unfenced territory across the city. As an independently published author, I […]

Filed Under: #auspol, Front Page, Literature, Marriage Equality, Michael Burge, The Arts Tagged With: #bwf16, Annastacia Palaszczuk, bisexual, Bold: Stories from older lesbian, Brisbane Writers Festival, BWF, Caroline Overington, David Hardy, Emile McPhee, gay, Heather Faulkner, Julie Beveridge, LGBTI, Lionel Shriver, Michael Burge, North of the Border: Stories from the A Matter of Time Project, Questionable Deeds: Making a stand for equal love, State Library of Queensland, The One Who Got Away, The Right to Belong, transgender & intersex people, Wynnum Library, Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Part 13 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

July 7, 2016

The final act in the Australian election campaign for 2016.

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #Qgame, #qldvotes, ABC, Asylum Seekers, Australian Progressives, Budget, Campaign Financing, Climate Change, Clive Palmer, Corruption, David Marler, Defence Force, Democracy, Disability, Economy, Education, election2016, Environment, Fairfax, Federal Election, Freedom of Speech, Front Page, GST, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Journalism, Labor Party, Leadership, Liberal Party, Marriage Equality, Media Reform, Mental Health, MSM, NBN, NDIS, New South Wales, News, News Limited, Opinion, Paid Parental LEave, Palliative Care, Palmer United Party, Parliament, Population, Press Gallery, Queensland, Racism, Refugees, Research, Retirement, Sexual Abuse, State Politics, Supperannuation, The Arts, The Arts Party, The Greens, Transport, Victoria Tagged With: #auspol, Australia, australian election, Ausvotes, Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Labor, Liberal Party, lucy turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon

Part 12 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

July 2, 2016

The final act in the Australian election campaign for 2016.

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #Qgame, #qldvotes, ABC, Adelaide, Asylum Seekers, Australian Progressives, Australian Sex Party, Budget, Campaign Financing, Climate Change, Clive Palmer, Corruption, David Marler, Defence Force, Democracy, Disability, Economy, Education, election2016, Environment, Fairfax, Federal Election, Front Page, GST, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Industrial Relations, Journalism, Labor Party, Leadership, Liberal Party, Maiden Speech, Marriage Equality, Mental Health, Misogyny, MSM, NBN, NDIS, New South Wales, News Limited, Paid Parental LEave, Palliative Care, Palmer United Party, Parliament, Population, Press Gallery, Queensland, Racism, Refugees, Retirement, State Politics, Supperannuation, Telecommunications, The Arts, The Arts Party, The Greens, Transport, Victoria Tagged With: #auspol, Australia, australian election, Ausvotes, Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Labor, Liberal Party, lucy turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon

Part 11 of NoFibs Australian election coverage 2016: @Qldaah #ausvotes #auspol #qldpol

June 27, 2016

Ongoing coverage of the Australian election campaign for 2016.

Filed Under: #auspol, #ausvotes, #ausvotes2016, #PeoplesClimate, #Qgame, #qldvotes, Asylum Seekers, Australian Progressives, Budget, Campaign Financing, Climate Change, Clive Palmer, Corruption, David Marler, Defence Force, Democracy, Disability, Economy, Education, election2016, Environment, Fairfax, Federal Election, Front Page, GST, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Industrial Relations, Journalism, Labor Party, Leadership, Liberal Party, Marriage Equality, Media Reform, Mental Health, Misogyny, MSM, Muslims, NBN, NDIS, New South Wales, News Limited, NoFibs, Paid Parental LEave, Palliative Care, Palmer United Party, Parliament, Population, Press Gallery, Queensland, Racism, Refugees, Research, Retirement, Rorting, State Politics, Supperannuation, Telecommunications, The Arts, The Arts Party, The Greens, Transport, Urban Planning, Victoria, Young Liberals, Youth Vote Tagged With: #auspol, Australia, australian election, Ausvotes, Barnaby Joyce, Bill Shorten, Christopher Pyne, Coalition, Labor, Liberal Party, lucy turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, nick xenophon

2016 Election Scorecards for #Ausvotes to help you decide: Curated by @takvera

June 26, 2016

Still undecided after several weeks of the election campaign? Are you confused on policies? Do you have a pet issue that may influence your vote? I might have just the election issue scorecard to help you decide. I have always been more interested in party policies than voting for the personality of a candidate or […]