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MILO SHAKEN BUT NOT STIRRED! Why Hate Incitement is Australia’s Easiest Gig
British-American blogger and far-right figure, Milo Yiannopoulos, is being feted by large sections of Australia’s media and even federal MPs this week but violent clashes have taken place during his speaking tour of the country as alt-right followers jostled with left-wing protestors and police in the midst of it all.
MEDIA & POLITICS
GIANTS OF LITERATURE MAKE STAND! Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee joins Booker Prize winner Thomas Keneally & Miles Franklin winner Kim Scott in calling out closure of UWA Publishing
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CRIME CULTURE
CRIME CULTURE: Greenlight by Benjamin Stevenson
The popularity of true crime podcasts and investigative crime documentaries has exploded over the past five years. Greenlight – the debut novel by stand-up comedian Benjamin Stevenson – places the media right in the centre of a young backpacker’s murder. Therese Taylor with her view on this new Aussie thriller.
The question that perhaps was not asked in this interview, and should have been; given that Mr Pomare has repeatedly named the religious group that he has based his fiction on; how do the children raised in the group feel about someone writing a fiction story that includes inventing crimes they did not commit, and no doubt ( from hints in the interview) describes serious mental illness they don’t have, but still it is their “history ” that still being used to market the book? Is it possible they feel exploited, or even slandered?