August 27 – September 2, 2022
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Jayne Tuttle
For writer Jayne Tuttle, the close relationship between life and work in Nan Goldin’s photography was revelatory.
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In real life
“This year, I’ve been a lot of different people. Forensic accountants and CFOs. Tenured academics, yoga dads and upper-middle managers. One time I was an HR guy with a thing for feet. Another time an ad exec with a thing for hissing: Keep your fat head still.
I was a famous footballer whose name I am not at liberty to reveal.
Say you need to be in two places at once. Pay me to be you anywhere in the Melbourne metropolitan area, at a morning kick-off meeting, at the post office, at your colleague’s impending nuptials. Pay me $35 an hour and $45 on weekends. It sounds more interesting than it is. Or maybe it doesn’t. It’s mostly sombre dinners and walks along murky bodies of water: Merri Creek, the Yarra or Maribyrnong.”
Books
Life
Puzzles
Quotes
Lawsuits
“We invited Lachlan Murdoch to sue us and now he has.”
Crikey’s editor-in-chief welcomes a defamation suit from Fox’s chief executive over a story about the Capitol riots. Suing a small Australian publication is the attention to detail we’ve come to expect from a broadcaster that’s yet to notice climate change.
Zingers
“The last government gave us robo-debt. The last government gave us robo-victims … Today, Labor will give the victims some robo-justice.”
The NDIS minister announces a royal commission into the automated debt recovery program, channelling the human touch that made him so beguiling in 2019.
Multitasking
“On the whole, his legacy deserves to be remembered for the things they got right.”
The senate opposition leader defends former prime minister Scott Morrison’s secretive takeover of five ministerial portfolios. Presumably by “things they got right”, he is referring to the states’ responses to the pandemic.
Downtime
“Quietly enjoying @gangofyouths with the Prime Minister at the Enmore Theatre.”
The NITV head of Indigenous news and current affairs shares images of Anthony Albanese wearing a Joy Division T-shirt and sculling a beer at a gig. The Finnish prime minister should take note – the problem was the lack of a tinnie.
Transport
“This suburban rail loop was literally dreamt up on the back of a beer coaster before the last election.”
The Victorian Liberal MP argues that cancelling the state government’s suburban rail loop is “economically prudent”. Smith may be best known for having parked his car on a fence, after consulting a smarter collection of coasters.
Sports
“These guys are angry all the time, probably because they’re running a marathon during a fistfight.”
An American Twitter user unfamiliar with AFL offers his summary of last weekend’s match between Collingwood and Carlton. It must be disorientating for those gentle practitioners of American football.
