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The ABR Podcast
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Episode #185
‘Some grotesque Minotaur’: Peter Dutton’s aggressive formation
By Patrick Mullins
This week on the ABR Podcast we review a profile of opposition leader Peter Dutton. Bad Cop: Peter Dutton’s strongman politics by Lech Blaine is the ninety-third issue of the BlackInc Quarterly Essay. In his review of Bad Cop, political biographer Patrick Mullins begins by comparing Dutton to another cop-turned-politician in Bill Hayden. Listen to Patrick Mullins with ‘”Some grotesque Minotaur”: Peter Dutton’s aggressive formation’, published in the May issue of ABR.
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This week the ABR Podcast considers Revive, Labor’s new National Cultural Policy. In a commentary for the March issue of ABR, Jennifer Mills, novelist and director of the Australian Society of Authors, separates the theatre from the substance at the launch of Revive. Mills asks how, precisely, Writers Australia will function, and whom it will benefit. Listen to Jennifer Mills reading ‘A revival meeting at the Espy: Labor’s new National Cultural Policy’.
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