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Susie Eisenhuth
Susie Eisenhuth is an Australian theatre and film critic who has reviewed Australian film for many decades. Career Eisenhuth was a film critic for the '' Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The Sun-Herald'' and the '' Sunday Telegraph'' (Sydney) as well as working as a radio producer at 702 ABC Sydney, where she still hosts a film review program. In the early 1990s, she accepted a position at the University of Technology Sydney, as a lecturer in journalism. Eisenhuth was a weekly columnist for '' The Bulletin'' from 1996 to 2002, resigning in 2002 after a much-publicised dispute with the editor-in-chief, Paul Bailey, who cut sections from her column where she cited Oscar Wilde's play, ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' and linked his critique of media hypocrisy with recent coverage of the much-criticised politician Cheryl Kernot. Eisenhuth is a founding member of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) and is also books editor of the international peer-re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and "the most widely-read masthead in the country." The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday edition of ''The Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun-Herald
''The Sun-Herald'' is an Australian newspaper published in tabloid or compact format on Sundays in Sydney by Nine Publishing. It is the Sunday counterpart of ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In the 6 months to September 2005, ''The Sun-Herald'' had a circulation of 515,000. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, its circulation had dropped to 443,257 Fairfax Ad Centre: The Sun-Herald and to 313,477 , from which its management inferred a readership of 868,000. Readership continued to tumble to 264,434 by the end of 2013, and has half the circulation of rival ''''. Its predecessor the |
The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Sunday Telegraph'' is an Australian tabloid newspaper, the separately published Sunday edition of ''The Daily Telegraph''. It is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. , ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is Australia's biggest selling newspaper. History The Sunday Telegraph was founded in 1939 by Frank Packer, as the weekend version of the Daily Telegraph, which he had acquired in 1936. On its first front page it reported on Nazi Germany's oppression of the Czechs, after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. The first editor was Cyril Pearl who worked with the editor of the Daily Telegraph Brian Penton to fight against government censorship during the war. Publication ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is produced in the Holt Street offices of Nationwide News, an Australian subsidiary of Rupert Murdochs News Corp (2013–present), News Corp. It is printed at the Chullora and G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
702 ABC Sydney
ABC Radio Sydney (official call sign: 2BL, formerly 2SB) is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC radio station in Sydney, Australia. It is the flagship station in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 702 hertz, kHz on the AM broadcasting, AM dial. The station transmits with a power (Effective radiated power#CMF, CMF) of 3,110V, which is equivalent to 50 kW (the maximum permissible in Australia) from a site west of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD. History ABC Radio Sydney is the first public broadcasting, public radio station in Australia opened in Sydney at 8:00pm on 23 November 1923. Its first callsign was ''2SB'' where ''2'' denotes the States and territories of Australia, State of New South Wales and ''SB'' stood for Sydney Broadcasters Limited. However, the callsign was soon altered to ''2BL'' for Sydney Broadcasters Limited. The change was due to the audio similarity of the sounds FC and SB. In May 1928 the Sydney Broadcasting Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Technology Sydney
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Although its origins are said to trace back to the 1830s, the university was founded in its current form in 1988. As of 2021, UTS enrols 45,221 students through its 9 faculties and schools. The university is regarded as one of the world's leading young universities (under 50 years old), ranked 1st in Australia and 11th in the world by the 2021 QS World University Rankings Young Universities. UTS is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network, and is a member of Universities Australia and the Worldwide Universities Network. History The University of Technology Sydney originates from the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts (the oldest continuously running Mechanics' Institute in Australia), which was established in 1833. In the 1870s, the School formed the Workingman's College, which was later taken over by the NSW government to form, in 1882, the Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bulletin (Australian Periodical)
''The Bulletin'' was an Australian weekly magazine first published in Sydney on 31 January 1880. The publication's focus was politics and business, with some literary content, and editions were often accompanied by cartoons and other illustrations. The views promoted by the magazine varied across different editors and owners, with the publication consequently considered either on the left or right of the political spectrum at various stages in its history. ''The Bulletin'' was highly influential in Australian culture and politics until after the First World War, and was then noted for its nationalist, pro-labour, and pro-republican writing. It was revived as a modern news magazine in the 1960s, and after merging with the Australian edition of Newsweek in 1984 was retitled ''The Bulletin with Newsweek''. It was Australia's longest running magazine publication until the final issue was published in January 2008. Early history ''The Bulletin'' was founded by J. F. Archibald and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46. Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Literae Humaniores#Greats, Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional Classics, classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Importance Of Being Earnest
''The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People'' is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian morality, Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' Wilde's most enduringly popular play. The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. The John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Kernot
Cheryl Zena Kernot (née Paton, formerly Young; born 5 December 1948) is an Australian politician, academic, and political activist. She was a member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland for the Australian Democrats from 1990 to 1997, and the fifth leader of the Australian Democrats from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, she resigned from the Australian Democrats, joined the Australian Labor Party, and won the seat of Dickson at the 1998 federal election. She was defeated at the 2001 federal election. Kernot was an unsuccessful independent candidate to represent New South Wales in the Australian Senate in the 2010 federal election. Early life Kernot was born Cheryl Paton in Maitland, New South Wales, on 5 December 1948. She grew up working class and her father worked two jobs to provide for the family. Her maternal grandfather was an organiser for the Australian Labor Party in the Hunter Valley coalfields. She attended East Maitland Primary School and Maitland Girls' High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Limited
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp. One of Australia's largest media conglomerates, News Corp Australia employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists. The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, subscription television in the form of Foxtel, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets. News Pty Limited (formerly News Limited) is the holding company of the group. News Corp Australia owns approximately 142 daily, Sunday, weekly, bi-weekly, and tri-weekly newspapers, of which 102 are suburban publications (including 16 in which News Corp Australia has a 50% interest). News Corp Australia publishes a nationally distributed newspaper in Australia, a metropolitan newspaper in each of the Australian cities of Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, and Sydney, as well as groups of suburban n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Simmonds
Diana Simmonds (born 1953) is an Australian journalist and arts critic, currently the editor and proprietor of Stagenoise.com. Simmonds was born in London, England in 1953 and moved with her family to Kenya. She returned to London in 1977 and wrote for various magazines including Time Out and was a founder member of the cooperative City Limits. In 1985 she moved to Sydney, Australia and wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, The Australian and the Sunday Telegraph, where she was the arts editor. In 2008 she was appointed editor of Sydney Alumni Magazine, for the University of Sydney. She has also written several novels and non-fiction books, including one on Princess Diana and one on Doris Day, and continues to write as a freelance journalist from time to time. In 2006 she co-founded the Sydney Theatre Reviewers and began working with brothers Damian and Tim Madden to create Stagenoise, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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