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Paul Keating, Alan Watts, Burna-Boy, Yayoi Kusama.

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Paul Keating:

The Redfern Speech. Prime Minister Paul Keating at the launch of Australia’s celebration of the 1993 International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Redfern Park, 10 December 1992. (Duration 16:50)–NAA

[Media Screenshot Paul Keating La Trobe University Ideas And Society Program]

Paul Keating in conversation with James Curran | La Trobe University (Sydney Campus, October 2022)

“La Trobe University’s Ideas and Society Program is pleased to present an online discussion between former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, and James Curran, a Professor of History at the University of Sydney and author of Australia’s China Odyssey, on a question fundamental to the future of Australia–our relations with China and, thus, the United States.”–La Trobe University

[Media Screenshot Independent Australia Online]

Paul Keating in conversation with Kerry O’Brien | Sydney Opera House (Main Concert Hall, October 2015)

“Paul Keating, visionary, reformer, true believer, rabble rouser, polymath, and our most intriguing prime minister bares his soul to the country’s sharpest political interviewer, Kerry O’Brien.

“Kerry and Paul wrestle with history to produce a tour de force of political wisdom and personal insight that weaves through the Keating years in a unique and compelling way. Building on the transcripts of the must-watch ABC TV event of 2013 – Keating: the Interviews – Kerry has gathered an enormous bank of new material, gleaned during many hours of further conversation with Keating, to create a book that is more forensic and all-encompassing than the very successful TV series. (…)”–Sydney Opera House

Paul Keating in conversation with Kerry O’Brien | Wheeler Centre (Melbourne MCEC, October 2015)

“In this fast-moving conversation, Keating dives into his relationships with US leaders, British monarchs and their silverware; the pleasures of acupuncture and classical music; Keating’s assessments of past and present Liberal leaders; the need for a treaty with Australia’s Aboriginal nations; and the former prime minister’s evaluations of his own political legacy.”–Wheeler Centre

[Media Screenshot Book Cover Paul Keating The Big Picture Leader By Troy Bramston]

Paul Keating in conversation with Kerry O’Brien | Sydney Writers’ Festival (City Recital Hall, October 2011)

“You don’t have to be a true believer to recognise there are few in public life who make an idea sing the way Paul Keating does. And here, in this Sydney Writers Festival special event, he’s in full stride speaking with the ABC’s Kerry O’Brien.

“Known as much for his acerbic tongue as for his economic reform, Paul Keating lives up to his reputation at this Sydney Writers’ Festival Special Event. (…) In a wide-ranging conversation with the ABC’s Kerry O’Brien, the loose focus is After Words, Keating’s new collection of post prime ministerial speeches.”–Sydney Writers’ Festival 2011

Alan Watts:

Music: Burna-Boy (Nigeria)

“Talibans” remix by Burna Boy & Byron Messia featuring Chris Brown & Nicki Minaj

Da-da-da-da
Da-da
Yow Kellz

Link with the killy dem
Saint Kitts to Trinidad
Big up the whole ah dem
Cause wọn kéré nínú ayé, anythin’ I do
Headline news even waitin I no do
Them go say, “I do”
Nothin’ but the truth when I step up in the booth
No lie, my life no be smarting
Remember last Christmas
Santa Claus give me the glizzy with the switch dawg
So some people no go see this Christmas
Mandem have crosses, most of them not even Christians
Click-bang, body sinkin’ like the quicksand
Ztekk full of bomb like Afghanistan

And everywhere me carry it ’cause me know the enemy them a pree
And me know them nah sorry for me
People a bawl and a scream ’cause we bad and we mean
Bloody crime scene, calamity
A so we shoot out brain fi go Canada, G
Make your marrow experience no gravity

Tell a pussy we no laugh up
We no take talk
Violate, people a dead dawg
You should a keep in your bed ’cause
The talibans them a make walk
We no laugh up, we no take talk
Badness a weh we endorse
We no shoot people fi end up in a Red Cross

Yow talibans like them need reassurance
Make you nuh sleep a yuh yard in a four months
A so we make people a moan out
Like gyal a get fuck down a whore house
Laff boss full a ‘K, that me sure ’bout
And if you see me travel with a 9X
A nuh no politician weh me a go vote out
Four killer, four seat and four rounds

Them want the tea like Lipton
All of the best pum-pum deh a Kingston
So me buy a Birkin fi Jada Kingdom
Some people vex how me phone get ring dung
Me too rich now so me buy six more
Mhmm, what’s the plan?
‘Cause I’m real to my skeleton (real to my skeleton)
If you insult my intelligence
Then I make the sparks fly like electrician
Lock off traffic, all tragic
Bare panickin’, freeze up like mannequin
Now, you can’t manage when pellets dem travellin’

Tell a pussy we no laugh up
We no take talk
Violate, people a dead dawg
You shoulda keep in a your bed ’cause
The Talibans them a make walk
We no laugh up, we no take talk
Badness a weh we endorse
We no shoot people fi end up in a Red Cross

Da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-ya
Da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-ya (Yow Kellz)

Tell a boy we no laugh up
We no take talk
Violate, people a dead dawg
Mhmm, mommy wan’ know a weh your head gone
You should a keep in your bed ’cause
We no laugh up, we no take talk
Yow dawg, man a make walk, yow
Tell a boy we no laugh up
Anything a weh you get dawg

Talibans II · Burna Boy · Byron Messia

Art: Yayoi Kusama (Japan)

Exhibition: Yayoi Kusama at NGV International

Yayoi Kusama, NGV International, until 21 April 2025

“With around 200 artworks on display, Yayoi Kusama is a large exhibition that covers most of the ground floor of NGV International.

A number of Yayoi Kusama artworks are on display in the public areas outside the ticketed exhibition area. These are free to visit and don’t require a ticket.

The ticketed exhibition areas are split into two parts. Part 1 is on your right as you enter from the Waterwall entrance on St Kilda Road. The entrance to Part 1 is past the NGV Garden Restaurant. The entrance to Part 2 is next to the Gallery Kitchen cafe. See page 11 for the Sensory Map for more information.

You can take a break in between the two parts of the exhibition and relax in the Great Hall, NGV Garden or Gallery Kitchen. It is recommended that you enter Part 2 by 4pm, to allow yourself an hour to see it before the Gallery closes at 5pm.

The exhibition follows a set path. “—NGV

More info: Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Access Guide