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Four Days in San Francisco
San Francisco has the now dated reputation of being the city of ‘free love, of ‘flower power’ and of alternative lifestyle. As an Australian visiting for the first time it is these ideologies from the 1960s and images of cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz that filled my expectations. To most Americans, particularly [...]
Fame the Musical in Sydney
The new production of Fame the Musical at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre shows that Timomatic is truly one of the best talents to emerge in Australia over the last couple of years. He really steals the show in his role of Tyrone Jackson (Leroy as it was in the original Fame movie) and although he only [...]
A first look at the Formula 1 2010 game
Formula 1 2010 is just out and here are my thoughts on my first three hours of playing the game. The release of a new and officially sanctioned Formula 1 game was something I looked forward to with great anticipation, but also with a little trepidation because it was the first time that I made [...]
Zac Efron at Australian premiere of Charlie St. Cloud
Zac Efron is clearly intent on transitioning his career into that of a serious, credible adult actor having so far made his name as a child actor or musical star with roles like High School Musical and its sequels. Apparently Charlie St. Cloud was a movie chosen with this strategy in mind, just as his [...]
Australian advertising slogans
The classic Australian advertising slogans created great debate on the recent radio program on 2GB and MTR 1377 while I was filling-in for Jim Ball. It all began as a follow-up to the story about McDonalds being upset over their ‘I’m Lovin’ it’ slogan being changed into ‘I was lovin’ it’ by a United States [...]
Swallowing a fish in a circus is not cruelty
I’m all for stopping animal cruelty and while I loved going to the circus when I was a kid when they featured exotic animals like lions, elephants and monkeys, their absence the last time I went it didn’t really hurt my enjoyment. The push to get rid of exotic animals has came from lobby groups [...]
Four days in New York
Of all the cities I have been too in the world, New York is the one that immediately excites from the time you arrive. Anywhere that has as many cultural and urban icons as New York will have you looking around for that next familiar site you have seen so many times in the media, [...]
Australia’s first Aboriginal Lower House MP, Ken Wyatt
I’ve only spoken to Ken Wyatt for the 12 minutes we chatted in 2GB and MTR’s Wake Up Australia, but he seems an impressive man and hopefully his presence in Federal Parliament can help bridge the gap between white and Aboriginal Australia. He has just taken the Western Australian seat of Hasluck for the Liberal [...]
John Hatton, Underbelly and the independents
John Hatton’s history in politics became known to the majority of Australian’s with his role in forcing a Royal Commission in the New South Wales police force being depicted in the recent Underbelly television series. I spoke with John Hatton on 2GB and MTR’s Wake Up Australia program earlier this week to compare his experiences [...]
Abbott Overnight
When my producer phoned me early in the evening of Thursday, August 20, saying that Coalition Leader Tony Abbott wanted to come on the overnight program on 2GB and MTR 1377, I thought, ok, but really didn’t expect it to happen. I was filling-in for Jim Ball on the midnight- 3:30am show in the final [...]
