Guy Rundle is currently the US correspondent for Crikey. He was co-editor of Arena Magazine between 1992 and 2006 and is a frequent contributor to a wide range of Australian publications, and the writer of a number of hit stage shows with the satirist Max Gillies.
Roy Slaven, together with HG Nelson, has presented This Sporting Life on Triple J for more than twenty years.
Garry Williams is the Sunday Herald Sun’s TV guide editor. A journalist for more than twenty-five years, his main claim to fame is as a former TV Week editor, although he is happy to report that he has upset enough people to never again be invited to the Logie Awards.
Tony Wilson is an author who has written one novel (Players), a World Cup fan’s memoir (Australia United) and four picture books for children. In 2006 he was a Sydney Morning Herald Young Australian Novelist of the Year. He has also worked in radio and television. Tony’s website is www.tonywilson.com.au
Julia Zemiro is best known as host of AFI Award–winning SBS TV show RocKwiz. Her TV credits include Thank God You’re Here and What a Year, co-hosting with Bert Newton, and her theatre roles include Love Song and Eurobeat—The Eurovision Musical. Julia is the co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Jonathan Coleman Experience.
Acknowledgements
Phillip Adams, “My 2UE producer noticed a tendency for me to nod off during interviews. In my own defence, they lined up some boring farts”, The Australian Weekend Magazine, 4 August 2007.
David Astle, “I came, I buzzed, I lost”. The piece in this collection is an updated version of an article originally published in Sunday Life magazine in March 2002.
Graeme Blundell, “Rude food”, The Weekend Australian, Review supplement, 22 September 2007.
Barry Cohen, “Modern telecoms run rings around me”, The Australian, 14 April 2008.
Kaz Cooke, “Phwoarr, check out the policies on Julia Gillard”, The Age, 14 March 2006. This article was originally published in The Age under the headline “Julia’s not got what it takes? Balls!”
—— “Planet Earth: Beware of the chimps”, The Canberra Times, 13 February 2007, reproduced at www.kazcooke.com.au/kazcooke/columns/07feb13.html>.
Ian Cuthbertson, “You just know it will be deliciously messy”, The Weekend Australian, Review supplement, 19 April 2008. The piece in this collection is an edited extract of an article originally published in The Australian.
Mark Dapin, “Adventures in LA-Land”, The Age Good Weekend Magazine, 25–27 April 2008. Mark Dapin would like to thank Judith Whelan at Good Weekend for sending him to LA to cover an event that didn’t happen.
Catherine Deveny, “Listen up, you selfish and ignorant people. Stop driving 4WDs”, The Age, 28 March 2007.
Frank Devine, “All is not lost when you can see success in anything”, The Australian, 7 December 2007.
—— “It’s a loathe-hate relationship, but at least I own a slice”, The Australian, 21 December 2007.
Alexander Downer, “The satire we had to have: Keating”, The Advertiser, 29 March 2008.
Larissa Dubecki, “Madonna’s latest offering leaves listener pondering: Just because she can, does it mean she should?”, The Age, 25–26 April 2008.
Suzanne Edgar, “Song of the crestfallen pigeon”, Quadrant, vol. LI, no. 6, June 2007.
Dame Edna Everage, “My loyal subjects and possums! A seasonal message from President Edna”, The Bulletin, vol. 125, no. 51, 18 December 2007.
Charles Firth, “A hookworm’s-eye view of the world around us”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 October 2007.
—— “Lies, damned lies”, The Monthly, May 2008.
Germaine Greer, “So Ian McKellen drops his trousers to play King Lear. That sums up the RSC’s whole approach”, The Guardian, 7 May 2007.
—— “Who cares if she can’t sing and can’t dance? Posh Spice is the Damien Hirst of dress-wearing”, The Guardian, 19 May 2008.
Gideon Haigh, “Packed it in: The demise of the Bulletin”, The Monthly, March 2008.
Andrew Hansen, Dominic Knight, Chas Licciardello, Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel, “The Chaser’s Logies”, The Age, 1 May 2008.
Marieke Hardy, “A time to repent: Big Brother’s over”, The Age, Green Guide supplement, 9 August 2007.
—— “Lashings of lust curved up by Nigella”, The Age, Green Guide supplement, 24 January 2008.
—— “Er, thanks for your support. No, don’t call us, we’ll call you”, The Age, 5 June 2008.
Matthew Hardy, “Pump more beer, iron out muscle”, Herald Sun, 5 January 2008.
Wendy Harmer, “Torn between satay skewers and children as an endangered species”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 January 2007.
Clive James, “On climate change”, A Point of View, radio broadcast, BBC Radio 4, 2 and 4 February 2007, transcript viewed August 2008. Reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of Clive James.
—— “The perfectly bad sentence”, The Monthly, February 2008. Reprinted by permission of United Agents on behalf of Clive James.
Danny Katz, “Love is never saying sorry … so there”, The Age, 14 February 2008.
Malcolm Knox, “Corporatising culture: Who holds the past in common trust?”, The Monthly, February 2007.
Peter Lalor, “Fashion pinkoes are the fifth columnists of masculinity”, The Australian, 17 August 2007.
John Lethlean, “Telly tubbies”, The Age, 9 June 2007. John Lethlean would like to acknowledge Jonathan Green and Sally Heath, the first a former editor of A2 at The Age and the latter, the current wearer of that hat.
—— “Silence of the lamb”, The Age, 1 December 2007. John Lethlean would like to acknowledge Jonathan Green and Sally Heath, the first a former editor of A2 at The Age and the latter, the current wearer of that hat.
Mungo MacCallum, “The pollies went a little crackers”, The Bulletin, vol. 125, no. 51, 18 December 2007.
Shane Maloney, “In from a busy day at Barwon jail, Carl asks for a fair go”, The Age, 28 April 2007.
—— “Cook’s tour: Peter Cook”, The Bulletin, vol. 125, no. 51, 18 December 2007.
Shaun Micallef, “My father sat on Winston Churchill”, The Age, 29 December 2006.
Paul Mitchell, “Contact”, Overland, vol. 184, Spring 2006.
Les Murray, “Fame”, Quadrant, vol. LI, no. 4, April 2007.
Olga Pavlinova Olenich, “Teacherwoman”, Overland, vol. 189, Summer 2007.
Rod Quantock, “Group giggles groovy again”, The Age, 15 April 2006.
Guy Rundle, “The right wing”, The Sunday Age, 8 July 2007.
—— “Don’t worry, just testing”, The Sunday Age, 30 December 2007.
Roy Slaven, “Seven modern wonders indeed? I think not”, The Age, 11 July 2007.
Steve Vizard, “The Library hotel, Thailand, and other hip hotels”. This article was written for this collection.
Garry Williams, Interview with Ja’mie King, Sunday Herald Sun, 21 October 2007. The piece in this collection was taken from a longer article titled “Ja’mie’s frocky horror”.
Tony Wilson, “Having a ball: How we finally fell in love with the world game”, The Age Melbourne Magazine, November 2007. The piece in this collection is an extended version of an article originally published in The Age.
Julia Zemiro, “Idle hands make for short nails”, Herald Sun, 1 September 2007.
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