Category Archives: Television

drug of the nation

Reading, watching, books, films, television…

Posted on June 12, 2007 by @ndy

Ha! Dazzling Darrin Hodges‘ blog Anglo-Australian National Community Council — er, that is, Hodges and his dog, who together maintain a watching brief on the Muslim menace threatening Orstraya — made a special guest appearance on Media Watch tonight, as … Continue reading →

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“I get so emo, I could die” / Drop the attitude, fucker / In music, nothing happens…

Posted on April 30, 2007 by @ndy

[Update : Jack Sargeant writes about suicide, girls, and the difficulties involved in giving all your love to just one genre in ‘It’s hard to be emo and be respected’, The Australian, May 3, 2007.] ::: I GET SO EMO, … Continue reading →

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Television, Drug of the Nation

Posted on March 19, 2007 by @ndy

Last week, almost two years after its completion, the ABC finally played Peter Vaughan’s doco The Last Valley, on the struggle to save the last remnants of old growth forests in East Gippsland (the kind my paternal grandfather logged further … Continue reading →

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What are you, Deaf or something?

Posted on January 12, 2007 by @ndy

On Leftwrites, Jeff Sparrow has drawn my attention to an article by Lennard J. Davis, ‘Deafness and the Riddle of Identity’ (The Chronicle Review, January 12, 2007). It raises a number of interesting questions (see below) in relation to notions … Continue reading →

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Revealed: spying on Anarchists

Posted on October 3, 2006 by @ndy

Well, if it’s good enough for The Age and 4 Corners… In May/June 2001, it was discovered, independently of the collective, that a member of the Barricade collective was, in fact, a spy. Subsequent investigations suggested that the person in … Continue reading →

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Fair dinkum Aussie values

Posted on September 21, 2006 by @ndy

Song Australia Aussie Aussie Aussie I am a fair dinkum Aussie We all are fair dinkum Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi Captain Cook’s Aboriginal trace Changed the whole continent’s face Black, brown, white, human race Buddies, mates, our southern place Harbour … Continue reading →

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Kaneko Fumiko Is My Hero Too!

Posted on August 27, 2006 by @ndy

Korean television viewers will have the chance to watch a drama highlighting the life of Kaneko Fumiko, a Japanese female resistance fighter and anarchist who planned an assassination attempt on Hirohito, then the crown prince, in September 1923… Kaneko Fumiko, … Continue reading →

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“White Terror”

Posted on July 19, 2006 by @ndy

White Terror (Dir: Daniel Schweizer, 2005), an hour-long documentary exploring the (already well-documented) international neo-Nazi networks centred on Blood & Honour, screened on SBS this evening. It was ‘okay’ in that, on the one hand, it revealed nothing new, but, … Continue reading →

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“You’re only as good as your fans” : The Chaser

Posted on July 8, 2006 by @ndy

It takes a great person to get an idea But don’t go public it’ll ruin the plan Because no matter how clever and original you are You’re only as good as your fans. And in the case of The Chaser, … Continue reading →

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Cobwebs for the rich…

Posted on May 18, 2006 by @ndy

…and chains for the poor. Once upon a time, a 14-year-old boy decided to “divorce” his parents. Sensing both an easy victim and a sensationalist headline, in 2004 the Sunday Herald Sun ran a front-page article headlined “Divorced by my … Continue reading →

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