Category: World
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American Dream becomes everyone’s nightmare
American Dream becomes everyone’s nightmare President Donald Trump, his Cabinet, the White House, the Republican Party hierarchy, the Clinton/Obama-led Democratic Party and the mass media are combining to wreck America, the wealthiest and strongest power on earth. Bit-by-bit, day-by-day, blow-by-blow they are taking it down. After just seven months into his four-year presidency, Trump is an…
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Kay Lanceley’s 80th
A stellar crowd of friends gathered at Lucio’s restaurant in Paddington, Sydney, on Saturday 12 August 2017, to welcome Kay Lanceley into the gracious company of octogenarians. She did it in typical style, with much laughter and general gaiety. As very young people might say, the celebration was “awesome”. Kay, widow of the acclaimed artist Colin Lanceley…
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Cooking the books
NSW Budget becomes the excuse for fake news extravaganza … Item One: “World-class” hospital at Tweed Heads … Item Two: Massive taxpayer grant to NSW Art Gallery … World news in summary: Mrs May embraces Orange Order and Trump’s big dollar gamble. Stop Press: Winter break Cooking the books When I worked fulltime as State…
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American carpetbaggers in Oz
A conga-line of visiting US militarists simply confirms Australia’s client status … The ABC is no longer “Our ABC” … Trump declares Qatar is a Terror Central … Would Hillary Clinton stop making up excuses … Trump is the real issue … US publicity-seeker unleashed Another week and yet another Washington cold warrior has been…
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Ungainly landing for Gladys
At home, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian takes backflip which turns into belly flop … Will someone deport unwanted US Republican warmonger Senator John McCain? … And away, after Manchester bombing Prime Minister Theresa May manages to drop in polls … Now Putin is accused of ballot-rigging in Malta (!!) … Our Gladys in belly flop…
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Art Gallery turmoil makes waves
Brisbane audience welcomes book on Art Gallery of NSW … AGNSW director Dr Michael Brand spotted in Venice: next stop Brisbane … Theresa May’s big election gamble … Rupert Murdoch’s loses his news room gorillas … NSW Coroner report on Lindt Café siege: whitewash or what? … Art gallery turmoil making waves News travels fast. When…
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Shenanigans at the Art Gallery of NSW
Theresa May’s election gamble in Britain … Tories should win at a canter, BUT …. Some headlines starting to turn ugly …. Now NSW police has a special thought unit … Annual storm over ANZAC Day won’t die away … Culture Heist launch Judith White’s book, Culture Heist: Art versus Money, published by Brandl & Schlesinger,…
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Public gallery under the microscope
Sickness at the Art Gallery of NSW: an insider’s account … Family First? New Kenyan-born senator is a millionaire … Donald Trump is supporting the election of Mrs May and Ms Le Pen – why? … A night at the Packer Family Logies … Blackpool, city of depression … Great Crashing Bores Public art gallery…
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The romance of Malcolm and Pauline
PM Malcolm Turnbull surrenders to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation … Critical moment in French presidential race … Albert Namatjira legacy needs your help … Remembering England’s Shrewsbury pickets … Real news from Afghanistan and Ecuador … Turnbull & Pauline: A love story In the 1990s France’s far right National Front under the leadership of Jean-Marie…