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The day “Bookshelves” Brandis became the Minister for Metadata | gonzomeetsthepress
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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. The day “Bookshelves” Brandis became the Minister for Metadata. March 27, 2015. I wouldn’t regard bloggers as journalists … A journalist is for the purpose of this law a person engaged in the profession of journalism.”. Dear Attorney-General George Brandis, I have been a journalist for more than 40 years and I am also a blogger. You hardly ever seem to make any sense, but this time you take the cake in your comments on ABC’s. Today t...
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Journalists beware: Rogue cell towers spying on a mobile near you | gonzomeetsthepress
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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Journalists beware: Rogue cell towers spying on a mobile near you. May 4, 2015. Six weeks ago, I posted a piece about the Australian Government’s new law to force telcos to retain data of journalists and everyone else for two years and how dangerous it was for press freedom ( http:/ wp.me/p1Ytmx-kL. Sixteen years ago, I was given an alarming insight into just how often journalists are actually spied on using such powers. It chang...
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Remembering Soweto 39 years on | gonzomeetsthepress
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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Remembering Soweto 39 years on. June 16, 2015. June 16, 2015. UPDATE: This is a post I wrote a few years ago. I am reposting it, with a few changes, to remember the Soweto Uprising today. This is a day that will never be forgotten in South Africa: the police shooting of student protesters in the black townships 39 years ago that eventually brought down the apartheid government. I still have a mat mold of the front page of. In Johanne...
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Remembering Steve McQueen, aka Slam | gonzomeetsthepress
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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Remembering Steve McQueen, aka Slam. May 31, 2015. Film and television editors are a rare breed. I got to know them well when I first went into television as the foreign editor of the Seven Network in Sydney in the early 1980s. I had been a journalist for. Newspaper for nearly ten years, and I didn’t know a grab from an outcue or a live voiceover from a news package. Program, Sky News Australia, Ten’s. Shine Australia, and SBS’s.
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Tony Abbott: No longer Mr Nice Guy | gonzomeetsthepress
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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Tony Abbott: No longer Mr Nice Guy. July 8, 2015. July 9, 2015. I’m beginning to worry about Tony Abbott and how his war on the ABC is affecting him (Photo above by Jeremy Piper, News Corp Australia). And as an executive producer on the Sky News. In 2011, I was producing Channel Ten’s. On SBS in 2013 presented by Ellen Fanning, I and other staffers tried for nearly six months to get the Opposition Leader (and later Prime Minister) as...
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Diving Delly: A man of steel who plays his heart out | gonzomeetsthepress
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A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Diving Delly: A man of steel who plays his heart out. June 14, 2015. I grew up in West Philadelphia where if you didn’t play basketball, your mates thought there was something wrong with you. You shovelled snow off the concrete courts at the playground during the winter, and played 12 hours a day during the summer. They love him in Maryborough, of course, where he played every day after school on a basketball court where he also made...
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about the work | Another Love and War Novel
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Another Love and War Novel. This WordPress.com site is the bee's knees. ANOTHER LOVE AND WAR NOVEL. The title of this novel was suggested to me by the words of one of the many literary agents and publishers to whom I unsuccessfully submitted the manuscript (or the one chapter that they were prepared to read). She said, There is no market for another love and war novel. Its previous title was “Between the Lines”, which is a lot more clever (double meaning and all) but another author pinched it. So that...
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Suddenly Last Summer: Tennessee Williams at his shocking best at the Sydney Opera House | gonzomeetsthepress
https://gonzomeetsthepress.com/2015/03/07/suddenly-last-summer-tennessee-williams-at-his-shocking-best-at-the-sydney-opera-house
A look at life, literature, politics and the media. WordPress.com site. Suddenly Last Summer: Tennessee Williams at his shocking best at the Sydney Opera House. March 7, 2015. My wife, not usually given to superlatives, said after watching the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of. It was the best play she had ever seen. I thought back to my theatre-going days in New York City in the late sixties, when I saw Edward Albee’s. With Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy; Harold Pinter’s. Philadelphia Here I Come.
