The Killing Season: A timeline of PM Kevin Rudd's downfall - The Killing Season "I went downstairs, Julia was there at her deputy prime minister desk, she had the Sydney Morning Herald in front of her, asked whether I'd read the article. I said I had. She said that having read it after all the loyalty that she had been showing in trying to fix the government she felt she only had two choices - either to stand down as deputy prime minister and go to the backbench or to challenge. "And she said, 'In our conversations we've never had this conversation but I wanted to know where are you at?' "I said to Julia at the end of that conversation, 'Do you want me to start making some phone calls, discreetly, but do you want them to start?' Watch the video
With Utopia, John Pilger wrings the heart but objectivity is not his forte Film maker John Pilger returns to the outback Australia for this documentary film Utopia. Veteran Australian journalist John Pilger's new film places Aboriginal Australia's dispossession and Third-World living conditions on the global stage. Indigenous people in remote areas, Pilger says in Utopia, which opened this month, are suffering a form of apartheid. Here, former Aboriginal affairs minister Fred Chaney, Australian of the Year Adam Goodes, academic Anthony Dillon and former indigenous health minister Warren Snowdon - who had a combative exchange with Pilger - review Utopia. Warren Snowdon Northern Territory MP and forer minister for indigenous health Having been interviewed by John Pilger for Utopia, my expectations for an insightful, balanced and fair yarn were not high. Elsewhere though, the film falls short. Dr Anthony Dillon Academic researcher, University of Western Sydney Utopia shows some clear examples of the appalling problems facing some Aborigines. Adam Goodes Fred Chaney
Les aventures américaines de Romain Gary (2/2) Deuxième partie des aventures américaines de Romain Gary : de la conquête ratée d’Hollywood aux révoltes des années soixante. De Yann Perreau et Rafik Zénine "L’Amérique fut la grande aventure de mon existence" avait l’habitude de dire Romain Gary. En 1965, Gary revient dans la cité des anges pour un film et décide de se lancer pour de bon dans le cinéma. Son histoire à Hollywood sera pourtant une succession d’échecs. Il s'échappe alors des plateaux et se lie à la jeunesse en révolte des années soixante, avec sa femme Jean Seberg, qui milite pour les Black Panthers. Je ne sais pas ce que sera la nouvelle Amérique, mais je sais que l’explosion noire l’empêchera de pourrir sur pied dans l’immobilisme des structures sclérosées aux sapes invisibles. On revit ici tous ces événements à travers la voix de l’écrivain, des extraits de ses textes, des archives d’époque. Ecouter Les aventures américaines de Romain Gary (1/2), émission diffusée le 09/03/2016Les éditions du portrait Bibliographie