Audience
Cab-tive audience wise to take back seat
Peter FitzSimons Roy Billing doesn't think male Australian dignitaries tend to sit in front as a statement of egalitarianism.
MTR failure shows it pays to listen to your audience
Bruce Guthrie The axed talk radio station failed to heed the needs of Melbourne listeners.
It's a harsh land, and audience, of extremes
David Dale WELL, there's a turn-up for the books.
Viewers left fuming as Q&A divides and conquers its audience
Clem Bastow The TV show for the digital age appears to have passed its zenith.
Audience on their feet for a fraud who called bin Laden his brother
Ted Lapkin David Hicks appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival to discuss his autobiography Guantanamo: My Journey.
Online audience a matter of taste as females dominate
Johanna Blakley It may sound strange, but I'm convinced that the growing influence of social media will help dismantle some of the silly and demeaning stereotypes that characterise media and advertising around the...
Industry's learning difficulty
When a federal Coalition MP says a group of public employees deserve to have their wages more than doubled to a top rate of $150,000, listeners are bound to wonder if their hearing is faulty.
How to rekindle interest in the great Australian stories
Michael Heyward We are in the thick of a debate about how we value our literary heritage. So many writers who matter are out of print. Australian studies are on the margin at many of our universities.
I'm in training for music's marathon
Geoff Strong Staging Richard Wagner's four-opera Ring Cycle in the era of the 10-second attention span seems a bit like resurrecting the musical Hair in the age of the Brazilian wax.
Memories of stage fright at a festival in this old town
Martin Flanagan In the theatrical presentation that precedes the AFL's Dreamtime at the 'G game tonight, Shane Howard will sing Solid Rock, the protest song that slipped past the guardians of Oz popular culture 30...
Media rule book must make room for change and give regulator teeth
Louise McElvogue It is a week today since the federal government released its long awaited Convergence Review, of which I was a co-author.
Timing is everything to Fashion Week hype
Jayson Brunsdon Fashion is a seasonal industry. But unlike in the natural world, fashion's seasons move with the times.
In defence of the beautiful, humane sport of jumps racing
Andrew Lemon Because horse racing in Australia in recent decades has been eager to define itself as an industry, a creator of wealth, it forgets to celebrate the traditional appeal of racing, the mysterious...
Giving way on the road won't kill you either
Ian Munro A TAC safety campaign unfairly lays all the blame on the motorcyclist.
Memo ABC: it's not all about you
Michael Shmith My late maternal grandmother, who with the merest sigh could cause ice to form on skirting boards, was acerbic to the point of oxidisation.
Cooking under pressure: how MasterChef reflects reality
Tania Lewis Glamour and television magic cannot mask the exploitation of workers.
Who are these haters that poison the well of our discourse?
Andrew Stafford People can be wise, considered, challenging and eminently reasonable, and they too can reach a wider audience than ever before. In practice, though, this rarely happens.
A view with a room
Elizabeth Farrelly I once told an audience that I'd spent my life in search of the perfect room. At the end someone stood up and said she thought that was really sad.
To quote B.B.King: I don't think anybody steals, all of us borrow
Anson Cameron Men At Work only did what all musos do - learn from history.
Give young the freedom to engage with Anzac tradition
Rebecca Wheatley Why is there an assumption that young people struggle to understand this “real meaning” of Anzac Day?
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