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Angry Anderson, hard rocker and frustrated balladeer, has told the conservative voice of rural Australia, the Nationals: "You won't be able to hobble me." Recently the tiny, bald Rose Tattoo frontman sat with party heavies, weighing his prospects for a federal parliamentary seat. Sitting across the table with his extensive tattoos and a silver stud in each ear, they must have pondered how Angry might look in an Akubra and tweed.
In fact, Anderson has twice before accessorised an Akubra: once walking the Kokoda Track, and in his early days as a TV celebrity, encouraging young people to take part in Landcare for Australia's biggest tree-planting program.
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It's the book that puts the gay back into Mardi Gras and the conscience into Julia's ALP national conference bumbag ...
Gay - the tenth anniversary collection, 50 essays and dispatches on difference, is now on sale on Amazon Kindle US (including for Australian customers) and UK stores, and on iBooks/iTunes.
Features Armistead Maupin, Augusten Burroughs, Belinda Mason, bisexuals, brain sex, Cyndi Lauper, George Pell, Ian Roberts, Ignatius Jones, iOTA, Matthew Mitcham, Pauline Pantsdown and much more.
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STORYTELLER Jon Hewitt wonders if some of the great tales of his beloved "island" city - Kings Cross - are gone for good. As middle-class gentrification squeezes the Cross to Darlinghurst Road between the El Alamein Fountain and the Coca-Cola sign, and Macleay Street has become so scrubbed up it's "sort of like Woolahra", the characters are disappearing.
Sure, Hewitt says, the Cross remains Australia's great mythical destination, but that only adds urgency to his Stations of the X interview project. The colourful characters are "dropping off the twig or leaving the area", says the 52-year-old filmmaker.
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All Sorts: a love letter to Sydney, books and social media; all they are, all they could be ...
On sale at Amazon and iTunes.
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