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Ethnic diversity on Australian television

by Sukhmani Khorana , January 12, 2012 • 20 Comments

When I wrote my piece on memory, migration and MasterChef for Issue Seven of Kill Your Darlings, I mentioned that Poh Ling Yeow (Adelaide-based visual artist and cook of Malaysian-Chinese origin) had become a role model of sorts. Not only was she the runner-up in the first … Read more »

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I don’t wanna grow up: Gen X in the suburbs

by Maggie Scott , November 8, 2011 • 6 Comments

At last, Generation X – who were threatening to be forever known as disaffected cynics with a yen for disco drugs and urgent sex with strangers in toilets – are now being taken seriously as ‘grown-up novelists’. Christos Tsiolkas’ novel, The Slap, has recently accumulated even more … Read more »

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Australian stories: ABC TV’s The Slap

by , October 7, 2011 • 7 Comments

When Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap was published in 2008, it was one of those suddenly ubiquitous novels – everyone seemed to own a copy and everyone was talking about the social issues it raised. Read more »