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Doug MacLeod (TV Writer)
Doug MacLeod (13 October 1959 – 22 November 2021) was an Australian writer of books, television, and theatre. Television MacLeod was a working writer for ABC Radio's comedy department in the 1980s, before spending two years as head writer of Network Ten's '' The Comedy Company''. He was a writer on the sketch comedy programs '' Fast Forward'' and '' Full Frontal''. He was the script editor of ''Kath & Kim'' while the series aired on the ABC. As a break from sketch comedy he co-wrote five episodes of '' SeaChange'' with Andrew Knight. He co-wrote the animated children's series '' Dogstar'' which won him the inaugural John Hinde Award for science fiction in 2008. He also worked on series two in 2011 with co-writer Philip Dalkin. In 2008 MacLeod won the Fred Parsons Award for Contribution to Australian Comedy at the AWGIE Awards. Theatre MacLeod was the writer of '' Call Girl the Musical'', with Tracy Harvey which performed two seasons in Melbourne. With John Clarke, he c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Tracy Harvey
Tracy Harvey is a comedian, TV presenter, actor and writer from Melbourne, Australia. Biography Harvey appeared in 'Movement' a web series, ''The Comedy Company'', ''The Gillies Report'', ''The Big Gig'', ''Hey Hey It's Saturday'' ''Smallest Room in the House'', ''Bert Newton Midday Show'', '' The Pack of Women'', ''COPP This!'', ''Waterfront'' (a miniseries), ''Dead Gorgeous'' and TVC's for Sussan, Myer and Pfizer. Harvey was a weekly co-host on the Derek Guille program on 774 ABC Melbourne. Harvey was a member of the alternative comedy breakfast panel radio show Punter to Punter with Trevor Marmalade and Dr Turf. The show was aired on 3XY and 3RRR on Saturday mornings after the Coodabeen Champions during the 1980s. Harvey played Tammy in The Whittle Family, touring nationally and at Melbourne's Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant. Harvey has written, 'Dear Mum, I'm on the Telly' published by Penguin Books and a weekly column for The Age. Harvey wrote and appeared in PRICK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Male Novelists
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21st-century Australian Novelists
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2021 Deaths
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1959 Births
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Kinshasa, Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
''The Daily Telegraph'', also nicknamed ''The Tele'', is an Australian tabloid newspaper published by Nationwide News Pty Limited (NWN), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. It is published Monday through Saturday and is available throughout Sydney, across most of regional and remote New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. A 2013 poll conducted by Essential Research found that the ''Telegraph'' was Australia's least-trusted major newspaper, with 49% of respondents citing "a lot of" or "some" trust in the paper. Amongst those ranked by Nielsen, the ''Telegraph'' website is the sixth most popular Australian news website with a unique monthly audience of 2,841,381 readers. History ''The Daily Telegraph'' was founded in 1879, by John Mooyart Lynch, a former printer, editor and journalist who had once worked on the ''Melbourne Daily Telegraph''. Lynch had failed in an attempt to become a politician and was loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie And Little Ragged Blossom (musical)
''The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom'' is a musical with book and lyrics by John Clarke with Doug MacLeod and music and additional lyrics by Alan John. It is based on the Snugglepot and Cuddlepie books created by Australian author May Gibbs. Synopsis The story centres on the two characters of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, who befriend a Blossom and search the unknown land of Australia. Unlike other adaptations, this version is a political satire. Production It premiered at the Theatre Royal in Sydney on 9 January 2007, presented by Windmill Performing Arts and Company B in association with the Sydney Festival, Perth International Arts Festival and Adelaide Festival Centre. Adult actors played the parts of the gumnut babies - Darren Gilshenan (Cuddlepie), Tim Richards (Snugglepot) and Ursula Yovich (Ragged Blossom). Songs Act l * ''Season of Love in the Bush'' * ''Mates'' * ''Are We There Yet?'' * ''Lizard's Rock (Be Clever and Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snugglepot And Cuddlepie
''Snugglepot and Cuddlepie'' is a series of books written by Australians, Australian author May Gibbs. The books chronicle the adventures of the eponymous Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. The central story arc concerns Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (who are essentially homunculi) and their adventures along with troubles with the villains of the story, the "Banksia Men". The first book of the series, ''Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: their wonderful adventures'' was published in 1918. Description Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the gumnut babies, are the protagonists of the story and are modelled on the appearance of young Eucalyptus (gum tree) Nut (fruit), nuts. The female gumnut babies, however, have their hair, hats and skirts modelled on Eucalyptus flowers. May Gibbs based some of the characters and scenery on the plants found in the bushland of Harvey, Western Australia, where she played as a child. The "big bad" Banksia Men are the villains of the story and are modelled on the appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clarke (satirist)
John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in both radio and television and also in print. He is principally known for his character Fred Dagg and his long-running collaboration with fellow satirist Bryan Dawe, which lasted from 1989 to his death in 2017, as well as for his success as a comic actor in Australian and New Zealand film and television. Early life and career Clarke was born on 29 July 1948 in Palmerston North, New Zealand, the son of Ted Clarke and Neva Clarke-McKenna. He moved to Wellington and attended Scots College before studying at Victoria University of Wellington between 1967 and 1970. Clarke first became known during the mid to late 1970s for portraying a laconic farmer called Fred Dagg on stage, film and television. Gumboot and singlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
