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HUGH MACKAY Australia Reimagined: Towards a more compassionate, less anxious society. Reviewed by Shelley McInnis

HUGH MACKAY Australia Reimagined: Towards a more compassionate, less anxious society. Reviewed by Shelley McInnis

by NRB | 26 Jun 2018 | Non-fiction | 3 comments

For decades, Mackay has warned in mild tones about the social costs of our retreat into consumerism: now he is calling us out more stridently. It’s been a while since I reviewed one of Hugh Mackay’s books, and when I heard him being interviewed on Radio National about...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on toddling

The Godfather: Peter Corris on toddling

by NRB | 9 Dec 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

It is 5.40 pm on a spring afternoon in Earlwood. I’ve been in the flat all day – listening to the radio, watching golf on TV and enjoying the reading of EL Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate (1989) as an audio book. I’ve listened to The World Today on Radio National but the...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on science fiction, astronomy and the next Big Bang

The Godfather: Peter Corris on science fiction, astronomy and the next Big Bang

by NRB | 21 Mar 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

Few subjects interest me less than astronomy and space travel. I can’t be bothered with what’s happening light years away, the Big Bang or dark matter. I watched the moon landing with some interest but, with the Vietnam war raging, I saw it mainly just as another...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Radio National

by NRB | 12 Jul 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 3 comments

I calculate that I listen to the radio for about 20 hours a week and to only one station – Radio National. Virtually my first action in the morning, after the obvious, is to turn on Fran Kelly’s breakfast program. I listen for about an hour, catching a couple of news...
             

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