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It’s brazen, profane, sexual, demeaning and frequently flouts broadcasting standards but at times, it’s weirdly compelling. Here’s what it was like to take in a full week of their antics.
The pauses in Sandy's monologues were worthy of Beckett. Critics acclaimed a ‘darkness reminiscent of Philip Larkin’, ‘Ezra Pound with the lights out’ and a pervading ‘Checkovian melancholy’. Barry more prosaically described Sandy as the voice of a different and vanishing Melbourne 'talking in its sleep'
J. A. (John Aloysius) Mulligan (1927-1996), Bifocal glasses on a chicken at the Royal Agricultural Show, New South Wales, 6 September, 1962, nla.pic-an24539208
Indigenous Voice and the republic debate, public holidays, King Charles and the environment, Qantas’ busy chairman, financial advice, RBA review.
The sixties through the eyes of John Mulligan J. A. (John Aloysius) Mulligan (1927-1996), Bifocal glasses on a chicken at the Royal Agricultural Show, New South Wales, 6 September, 1962, nla.pic-an24539208 If you recall the 1960s you will find much of interest in the work of Australian press photographer John Mulligan (1927-1996), which has recently been digitised for the Web by the National Library of Australia. Over 1800 of Mulligan’s images are now online in the Library’s Catalogue. The sixties saw the arrival of new technology and Mulligan was there to capture the wonders of the ...