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The vernacular trap

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Published on Wednesday, 16 June 2010 14:41
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JAMES PANICHI | How black does US president Barack Obama sound? Seriously: if you had only ever heard his voice, would you know he was African-American? My guess is that you wouldn’t – and according to a Democratic senator, that’s a good thing.
Seriously: revelations in a recently published book called Game Change suggest that in the course of the 2008 campaign, US Senator Harry Reid said Obama would be a strong candidate because he didn’t speak a ‘negro dialect’ and was ‘light-skinned’.

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Fraser’s liberal predicament

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Published on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 11:02
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JAMES PANICHI | Talk about the end of an era. Late last month Australia woke up to the news that Malcolm Fraser – a man who we had all seen as synonymous with the Liberal Party of Australia – had let his membership lapse. That’s right – the man who governed the country from ’75 to ’83, the cool-headed leader who had brought down a Labor prime minister in the most controversial political crisis since Federation, was a Liberal no longer.

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The Rex Factor

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Published on Wednesday, 26 May 2010 11:57
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JAMES PANICHI | What’s the deal with Euro-kitsch TV? I mean, seriously: what kind of person actually watches Inspector Rex, the Austrian-Italian co-production featuring a crime-solving dog? That’s right: a dog. One bark the crim did it, two barks he’s off the hook. Even in Europe, where TV viewing habits often deviate from the norm, has there truly been an audience this side of Flipper prepared to suspend its disbelief and accept that a dog has the mental acuity to solve crime?

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Rules of engagement

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Published on Thursday, 03 June 2010 10:52
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JAMES PANICHI | So, just what is privacy? And why should anyone be entitled to it? These are the same, two questions we return to every time a prominent person’s private life is thrust into the headlines. And those who violate the privacy of public figures often win the day –not by arguing that privacy isn’t a right, but by claiming circumstances are so extraordinary that the public had a right to know. And so it was with New South Wales minister David Campbell, who resigned from cabinet shortly after Channel 7 broadcast footage of him leaving a gay sauna in Sydney.

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Future directions

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Published on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 11:52
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JAMES PANICHI | Everyone was on their best behaviour a few weeks ago for the reception to mark the 50th anniversary of Melbourne’s Italian newspaper Il Globo. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd remained upbeat and gave a good speech, while other dignitaries stuck to the not always advisable tradition of kicking off their comments with a few words in Italian. And in between courses, three giant screens provided a photographic history of one of the most successful Italian-language newspapers ever published outside Italy. And what a fascinating history it is.

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