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Editor's note: If Australia were a ship, where would it be headed? The easy-going assumption of aspirational Australia that the destination is unending prosperity (and more cut-price deals) will not save us from the rocks of an uncertain future.
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A version of the 16th Sir Rupert Hamer Lecture. The lecture was delivered by Williamson at Swinburne University on 8 September 2005.
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David Williamson in the Dock : Paranoia, Propaganda and 'The People'
2006
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criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 182 2006; (p. 13-19) Musgrove reviews the columns, articles, radio commentaries and newspaper correspondence that resulted from David Williamson's 'Cruise Ship Australia' address. Musgrove concludes that '[w]hat the principal actors in the 'Cruise Ship Australia' affair ultimately (and unwittingly) did was to provide the resources for a textbook case study: of how contemporary propaganda works, and how a paranoid power-eilte deals with those who speak back to it. It's also a classic expose of how false consciousness is manufactured; and of how the struggle over what values genuinely represent 'the people' remains unresolved.' -
John Howard's Hand in a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
2005
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— Appears in: The Australian , 27 October 2005; (p. 13) -
Seasick Green on the Good Ship Australia
2005
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 October 2005; (p. 11) -
Aussie Humour Not So Shipshape
2005
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25 October 2005; (p. 15) -
Playwright 'Caught in Right-Wing Maelstrom'
2005
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column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 October 2005; (p. 15) Playwright David Williamson's essay in the October 12 issue of The Bulletin received scathing criticism by 'right-wing' columnists.
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Titanic Conceit
2005
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— Appears in: The Australian , 19 October 2005; (p. 15) Gerard Henderson contends that in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries the arts in Australia have been characterised by 'the willingness of artists to cut themselves adrift from the life of society and to become sneering, carping critics of ordinary lives and values.' This mindset 'has perhaps never been better showcased than in a long piece of reportage by playwright David Williamson in last week's Bulletin.' -
Author Overboard
2005
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— Appears in: Herald Sun , 21 October 2005; (p. 23) The Sunday Mail , 23 October 2005; (p. 60) Andrew Bolt links David Williamson to a 'squalid lineage' of contempt for the masses by tracing a line from Donald Horne and Patrick White through to D. H. Lawrence and H. G. Wells. -
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 October vol. 123 no. 6493 2005; (p. 8) -
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2005
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correspondence
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 October vol. 123 no. 6493 2005; (p. 8) -
Untitled
2005
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correspondence
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 October vol. 123 no. 6493 2005; (p. 8)
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