Cirrus@Austlit

'ABC Radio producer Richard Connolly in conversation with John Tranter, in Balgowlah, in Sydney, New South Wales, on 11 May, Wednesday, 2011. The topic is ‘The ABC and Australian writing’. The Australian Broadcasting Commission changed its name to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on 1 July,1983. The initialisation remained the same. You can also read in this issue of this magazine the text of the 1982 paper by Richard Connolly that describes his visit under the aegis of a Churchill Fellowship to radio stations in Europe and England in the early 1970s and the events that led directly to the foundation of ‘Sunday Night Radio Two’, Australia’s first long and serious radio program.' (Publication summary)

'is is the text of the 1982 paper by Richard Connolly that describes his visit under the aegis of a Churchill Fellowship to radio stations in Europe and England in the early 1970s and the events that led directly to the founding of ‘Sunday Night Radio Two’, Australia’s first long and serious radio program. It was first published in: Australian Cultural History. No 2, 1982-1983: Institutions and Culture in Australia (S. L. Goldberg and F. B. Smith, eds.). Pages 22-37. Australian Academy of the Humanities and the History of Ideas Unit, Australian National University, Canberra: 1983. Provenance: scanned and typeset by John Tranter, incorporating corrections and emendations by Richard Connolly and John Tranter, Sydney, 2011.' (Publication abstrarc)

'Warlpiri people residing at the town of Yuendumu, central Australia, have been involved in a range of audio-visual media projects over the past three decades, from radio broadcasting through to film and television production and video-conferencing. In this paper I consider two moments in this recent history with a specific focus on radio, as a way to reflect upon the shifting relations between Warlpiri people and the Australian state.' (Author's introduction)

'It’s almost a cliché that the fundamental divide in Australian poetry is between the city and the country. Yet there is a third space here, an unacknowledged and under-discussed hybrid that is the majoritarian existence in Australia, namely the suburbs. For poetry to avoid being ‘a narrow kind of talk’, the suburbs must be considered more extensively. The suburbs moreover are not simply Australian.' (Author's introduction)