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Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams , (born 12 July 1939) is an Australian humanist, social commentator, broadcaster,
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and farmer. He hosts '' Late Night Live'', an
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(ABC) program on Radio National four nights a week. He also writes a weekly column for '' The Weekend Australian''. Adams has had careers in advertising and film production and has served on many non-profit boards including Wikileaks, Greenpeace Australia, Ausflag, Care Australia,
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, both the
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and
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festivals of ideas, the Montsalvat Arts Society and the Don Dunstan Foundation. Adams has been appointed both a member and subsequently an officer of the
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; and he has received numerous awards including six honorary doctorates from Australian universities; Republican of the Year 2005; the Senior ANZAC Fellowship; the Australian Humanist of the Year, the Golden Lion at Cannes; the Longford Award; a Walkley Award; and the Henry Lawson Australian Arts Award. In 1997 the
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named a minor planet orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter after him. A
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poll elected him one of Australia's 100 national living treasures.


Early years

Adams was born in Maryborough, Victoria, the only child of Congregational Church minister, the Reverend Charles Adams. His childhood was anything but idyllic and his parents separated when he was young. Interviewed in 2006, Adams said that:
My first memories were my mother... absolutely dependent on the begging bowl – that little round dish with a piece of cloth at the bottom where parishioners would put a couple of bob. When dad went off to the war, I was taken up by my grandparents... and lived on a dirt-poor farm... I lived in penury for the first 10, 15 years of my life. ... Mother dumped y fatherin favour of a rather sleazy businessman ... a sociopath who tried to murder me ... I spent my latter part of my childhood trying to protect my mother from this psycho.
Of his education he has said: "I was forced to leave school before completing my secondary education and the only job I could get was working in advertising." Adams joined the Communist Party of Australia at age 16, while employed in advertising, but left at age 19. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) kept a file on Adams. The file began at about the time he turned 16 years of age.


Career

Adams began his advertising career with Briggs & James and, later, with Brian Monahan and Lyle Dayman, became a partner in the agency Monahan Dayman Adams. He developed successful campaigns such as ''
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'', '' Slip, Slop, Slap'', ''Break down the Barriers'' for the International Year of the Disabled Person and ''Care for Kids'' for the International Year of the Child, working with talent such as Fred Schepisi, Alex Stitt, Peter Best,
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and Mimmo Cozzolino. Adams left the advertising industry in the 1980s. Monahan Dayman Adams purchased the successful Sydney agency MoJo in 1987 and carried on as MojoMDA. He wrote regular columns for ''
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'', ''
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'', '' The National Times'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''The Advertiser'' (Adelaide), ''The Examiner'' (Tasmania), ''
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'', the ''
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'' and ''
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'' of London. He currently writes a weekly column for ''The Australian''.


Film work

Adams played a key role in the revival of the Australian film industry during the 1970s. He was the author of a 1969 report which led to legislation by Prime Minister
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in 1970 for an Australian Film and Television Development Corporation (later the
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) and the Experimental Film Fund. Together with Barry Jones, Adams was a motivating force behind the Australian Film Television and Radio School which was established under the Whitlam government. Adams played a key role in the development of the South Australian Film Corporation, which was created in 1972 and became a model for similar bodies in other Australian states; and in the establishment of the Australia Council and the Australian Film Development Corporation, later known as the Australian Film Commission, the Film Finance Corporation Australia, and Screen Australia. As head of delegation to the
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, Adams signed Australia's first co-production agreements with France and the UK. He was Chairman of the Australian Film Institute, the Film and Television Board of the Australia Council, the Australian Film Commission, and Film Australia. In the 1960s Adams co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed (as well as serving as cinematographer for) his first feature film '' Jack and Jill: A Postscript'' (1969); the first feature to win the AFI Award, and the first Australian film to win the Grand Prix at an international festival. Adams produced or co-produced other features including the critically panned but hugely popular film adaptation of Barry Humphries' '' The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'', directed by Bruce Beresford, which became the most successful Australian film ever made up to that time. Other films include '' The Naked Bunyip'', '' Don's Party'', ''
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'', '' Lonely Hearts'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''Fighting Back'', ''Hearts and Minds'' and '' Abra Cadabra''.


Broadcasting

Adams initially presented a late-night program on Sydney commercial radio station
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during the late 1980s and early 1990s before succeeding Virginia Bell in 1991 as presenter of ABC Radio National's ''Late Night Live'', interviewing guests on a wide range of topics including politics, science, philosophy, history and culture. ''Late Night Live'' is broadcast across Australia on ABC Radio National, as well as on
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and the Internet. The program is broadcast live from 22:00 AEST/ ADST and is repeated the following day at 16:00 AEST/ADST. A serious discussion of world issues, the program is tempered with Adams' gentle and ironic humour. Regular contributors include Bruce Shapiro and Beatrix Campbell. At times, Adams refers tongue-in-cheek to his listeners as "the listener" or "Gladys", as though he had only one listener; he also refers to listeners collectively as "Gladdies". In more recent years, Adams has begun introducing the show saying "Good evening Gladdies and Poddies", in reference to the show's growing
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listener base. The current theme music is the first movement of Brescianello's Violin Concerto No. 4 in E minor, Op. 1. Until March 2016 the theme was a short extract from the "
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" from the '' Wild Swans Concert Suite'' by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with soprano Jane Sheldon, chosen in 2010. From 2007 to 2010, the theme music was Kats-Chernin's "Russian Rag", which Adams humorously refers to as "The Waltz of the Wombat". The previous music was
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's Concerto for oboe, violin and orchestra in C minor, BWV 1060: III. ''Allegro''.


Other work

Adams was the foundation chairman of the Commission for the Future, established by the Hawke government to build bridges between science and the community. He chaired the National Australia Day Council; whose principal task was to choose the Australian of the Year. Adams was the inaugural chair for the Australian Centre for Social Innovation, established by the South Australian government, and chaired the advisory board for the Centre for the Mind at the
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and the
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. He has been a board member of Greenpeace, CARE Australia, the National Museum of Australia, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation, the Adelaide Festival of Ideas and Brisbane's
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, and is an Ambassador of
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and the
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. He was co-founder of the Australian Skeptics. Adams is the author or editor of more than 20 books, including ''The Unspeakable Adams'', ''Adams Versus God'', ''The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes'', ''Retreat from Tolerance'', ''Talkback and A Billion Voices'', ''Adams Ark'', and, with Lee Burton, ''Emperors of the Air''.
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has described Adams as "the emblematic figurehead of the pro- Labor left
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". Adams had a close relationship with every Labor leader from Gough Whitlam to
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, advising on public relations, advertising and policy issues. In 2010, Adams resigned from the Labor Party after Rudd was defeated as the Leader of the Labor Party at the 2010 Labor leadership spill. In 1995 Adams argued against Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, saying that a better response to expressions of racial hatred was "public debate, not legal censure".


Personal life

Adams is married to Patrice Newell. He has four daughters: three with his first wife, Rosemary Fawcett, and one with Newell. He lives on "Elmswood", a large property near
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in the
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in mid-northern New South Wales. He and his wife grow garlic and olives, and farm organically fed cattle. He has a home in
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, an inner suburb of Sydney. Prior to this, Adams lived for some time in Stoneleigh, a heritage-listed house in Darlinghurst. Adams collects antiquities from many "dead civilisations", including sculptures and
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s of Egyptian, Roman, Greek, Etruscan, South American and other indigenous cultures' origin. He has written "I'd been an atheist since I was five."Alt URL
/ref> In 1979 a portrait of Adams by artist Wes Walters won the
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.


Honours and awards

*Windgrove Laureate (2004) *Senior ANZAC Fellow (1981) *
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Arts Award (1987) *United Nations Media Award (2005) *Multiple AFI Awards for various films *Honorary Doctor of the University,
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*Honorary Doctor of Letters,
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(2003) *Honorary Doctor of Letters,
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(2005) *Honorary Doctor of the University,
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(2010) *Honorary Doctor of Letters,
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(2014) *Australian Media Hall of Fame, 2014 *Honorary Doctorate, Australian Film, Television and Radio School, 2016 *
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(AO) 1992, for service to the Australian film and television industries * Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 1987, for service to the arts, particularly to film and television * Living Treasures by the
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in 1998 * Walkley Award for Broadcast Journalism (2004) *Responsibility in Journalism Award 1998 (SCICOP) New York *Australian Republican of the Year 2005 (Australian Republican Party) *
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1987 – Awarded by the
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*Australian Centenary Medal (1 January 2001

"''For service to Australian society in journalism''" * Raymond Longford Award (the Australian film industry's highest accolade, in 1981, for "Outstanding Services to the Australian Film Industry" *A minor planet, discovered by R.H. McNaught at Siding Spring (1990) was named " 5133 Phillipadams" by the
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(1997)Minor Planet Center: (5133) Phillipadams
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*
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awarded by the Australian Government's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2006) (Shared with Father Chris Riley) *In 1996 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP) presented Adams with the ''Responsibility in Journalism'' Award.


Bibliography

*''Conversations'' *''A Billion Voices'' *''Classic Columns'' *''Adams Ark'' (2004) *''Adams Versus God'' *''Retreat from Tolerance'' *''The Uncensored Adams'' *''The Inflammable Adams'' *''The Unspeakable Adams'' *''More Unspeakable Adams'' *''Adams with Added Enzymes'' *''Talkback: Emperors of the Air'' *''Adams Vs. God: The Rematch'' (2007) *''Harrold Cazneaux: The Quiet Observer'' *''The Big Questions'' (with Professor
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) *''More Big Questions'' (with Professor Paul Davies) *''Bedtime Stories – Tales from my 21 Years at Late Night Live'' : *With his partner Patrice Newell, he is the author of several joke books: **''The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes'' (1994) **''The Penguin Book of Jokes from Cyberspace'' (1995) **''The Penguin Book of More Australian Jokes'' (1996) **''The Penguin Book of Schoolyard Jokes'' (1997)


Filmography


Film

* ''A Personal History of the Australian Surf'' * ''Hearts and Minds'' (1966) (producer) * '' Jack and Jill: A Postscript'' (1970) (producer, writer, director) * '' The Naked Bunyip'' (1970) (producer) * '' The Adventures of Barry McKenzie'' (1972) (producer) * '' Don's Party'' (1976) (producer) * ''
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'' (1978) (producer) * ''
Grendel Grendel Grendel ''Grendel Grendel Grendel'' is a 1981 Australian animated film written, directed and designed by Alexander Stitt and starring Peter Ustinov. It was based on John Gardner's novel ''Grendel''. The music was composed and conducted by Bruce Smeaton ...
'' (1981) (producer) * '' Fighting Back'' (1982) (executive producer) * '' Lonely Hearts'' (1982) (executive producer) * ''
We of the Never Never ''We of the Never Never'' is an autobiographical novel by Jeannie Gunn first published in 1908. Although published as a novel, it is an account of the author's experiences in 1902 at Elsey Station near Mataranka, Northern Territory in which she ...
'' (1982) (executive producer) * '' Kitty and the Bagman'' (1983) (producer) * '' Abra Cadabra'' (1983) (producer) * ''
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'' (1994) as Radio Announcer * '' Road to Nhill'' (1997) as God (voice)


Television

* ''Adams' Australia'' (part of BBC TV's contribution to Australia's celebrations for its bicentenary). * ''The Big Questions'' with Professor
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* ''Death and Destiny in Ancient Egypt'' (writer/presenter) filmed in Egypt with Paul Cox2008 * ''More Big Questions'' with Professor Paul Davies * ''Face the Press'' SBS * ''Short Cuts'' ABC * '' Four Corners'' * ''
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'' * '' Parkinson'' * '' 7:30 Report'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * '' A Current Affair'' * '' Sixty Minutes'' * '' Australian Story'' * ''Counterpoint with William F. Buckley Jr'' * '' CNNNN'' * ''
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'' * Compere, Australian Film Institute Awards Telecast * Co-presenter, the Australian Bicentennial Celebration


References


External links


ABC ''Late Night Live'' podcasts

Biography (ABC)

Why We Need a Revolution Now
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