Andrew Danos is an Australian businessman currently living in Israel. He has an MBA from Kellogg Business School and is a former adviser to The Hon. Kelly O’Dwyer MP. He is also the Honorary President of the Israel Paralympic Team. He has contributed this excellent thought piece to The
What positives could you possibly bring up about Senator Stephen Parry’s letter re: Bill Henson?
a) That it is spelt correctly?
b) That it contains relatively good punctuation?
c) That he has included a mobile phone number, which may allow you to call him and tell him how stupid this letter is?
In the light of the Bill Henson saga, where the major argument against his work is that his 12 or 13 year old models and their parents don’t have the wherewithal to approve of their own images in an artistic context, we hear of the Federal Court’s approval of
Our friend Andrew Norton has started a fascinating conversation about respect vs tolerance, framed within the context of The Peel refusing to allow straights and women in.
For a liberal, equal respect demands too much and more than is necessary. For passionate religious believers (and liberal ideas of toleration
As Kellyanne Conway wisely said of Trump, he knows the difference between what offends and what affects. This is the key to his brilliant tactics. Do something that affects, and distract by doing something that offends, something generally irrelevant of little or no consequence that gets his critics all riled
Two great cartoons from Bill Leak in The Australian over the past two days on the Bill Henson saga:
Monday 26 May
Saturday 24 May
Superstar Australian artist Bill Henson has been the victim of a vicious and ignorant political / media witch-hunt that has led to the cancellation of his latest show in Sydney, and a rebuke from Kevin Rudd, who called his art “revolting”. This is the same Bill Henson who
From NewsCorp and NBC Universal.
So interesting how this new venture will go, especially when you consider News Corp and Google are in bed in the search side of things, but battling on the video side of things?
