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Andrew Sharp began his professional career playing The Artful Dodger in J.C.Williamson's 1966 revival of Oliver! He went on to work steadily in theatre and on television in the 1970s, in shows such as Peter Kenna's A Hard God and Peter Handke's Kaspar at the Nimrod Street Theatre, The Season at Sarsaparilla and Julius Caesar for The Old Tote Theatre Company, The Rocky Horror Show at The New Art Cinema in Glebe, as well as playing a regular role in The Young Doctors and guest roles in other Grundy's productions. At the age of 25 he moved to London where he played leading roles in three long-running West End productions: Beyond the Rainbow, Stage Struck and Deathtrap. Returning to Australia in the 1980s he worked mostly in film and television, notably in movies such as Buddies and Undercover, mini-series such as Glass Babies and Sword of Honour and the 13 episode Taurus Rising - amongst other work. Throughout his career he dabbled in directing, producing shows with friends in unusual locations such as garages, living rooms and church halls. He graduated from the post-graduate diploma course in film directing at Melbourne's Swinburne Institute of Technology in 1986. In the 1990s he went on to work as an assistant director on several operas at The Australian Opera (as the company was then known), before returning to the UK in the 1990s, where he directed opera students at the Royal College of Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire and - for the Covent Garden Opera Festival - directed Handel's Saul and his own translation of Mozart's The Impresario. In 2002, searching for “home”, he moved to the small northwestern NSW town of Barraba, where he created The Playhouse Hotel, a 9 bedroom boutique hotel housing an 80 seat theatre. There he has presented dozens of touring theatre performances, bands, musicians and comedians… though he admits he misses his real hometown of Sydney, and plans to return soon. The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Episode 83 Richard Lowenstein: An Original Story       It's often opined that Chris Murphy was the 7th member of INXS and, from a business point of view such sentiment, seemed more than legitimate. However, it's without a doubt that artistically Richard Lowenstein was that 7th member. Joining the INXS family in Northern Queensland as that pasty, vitamin D-deprived emerging auteur in early 1984, he would go on to be an intrinsic and artistic tour-de-force shaping INXS' ascent from hard-working, freshmen musicians to globe-trotting superstars. All of that aside, Access all Areas would love to provide an origin story backdrop of who just Richard Lowenstein is and the lead-up of how he came to work with INXS.     The son of parents who fled Nazi Germany via the UK and ultimately to Australia in 1940, Richard was the proud graduate from Swinburne Institute of Technology, Film and Television Department in 1979. Within a year, he had directed his first music video embracing the Melbourne punk rock scene and was awarded the illustrious Erwin Radio Prize for Best Short Film at the Melbourne International Film Festival.   With an impressive résumé building, Richard's life was to change with his groundbreaking music video of the Hunters & Collectors' classic “Talking to a Stranger”, a video that aroused the attention of one “Michael Hutchence”. Being a man in demand, Richard produced and directed clips for Cold Chisel, Tim Finn (ex-Splitz Enz), Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, plus The Church, all whilst releasing in 1984 his first full feature film Strikebound, the story of 1930's coal miners' strike (based on his mother's book and union research) that coincidentally featured the INXS track “All the Voices”.     A true auteur to his craft, Richard has always remained humble, stylistically unique, and a true innovator in celluloid. Never one to embrace the mainstream and dumb it down (hello Michael Bay), Richard's early work shows a true passion, instinct, and distinctive approach in the art of filmmaking, whether it be short-form or long-form, and we hope you enjoy the first installment of this career retrospective of the great Richard Lowenstein (not steen ).     Love and Peace   Haydn To become a Patron/ subscriber check out our different levels and see which one suits you. https://patron.podbean.com/INXSAccessAllAreas   Check out our website for all the good stuff... https://www.inxsaccessallareas.com ...and for some cool stuff visit https://www.inxs.com  Please sign the petition at  http://inductinxs.com to help get INXS nominated into the ROCK & ROLL HALL of FAME, where they belong.  A new episode drops every Sunday INXS Access All Areas is available on Podbean, iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, and Amazon Music.     

1): 'Same word, different medium: Indie TV in the 2000s'. In this presentation, Alisa Perren surveys the discourses surrounding 'indie TV' and examine the forces driving a range of industrial stakeholders to shift their priorities from film to television. 2): 'Thinking outside the can: Media preservation in the 21st Century'. In this presentation, Caroline Frick will offer an overview of past practice, present challenges and why, more than ever, keeping older moving images moving is of critical value. Presented on Monday 6 June 2016.

Presented by Prof. Emma Kowal on 4th March 2016.In Australia, a 'tribe' of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people. Drawing on ethnography of an Indigenous health research institute in northern Australia, this seminar explores what happens when well-meaning people, supported by the state, attempt to help without harming. 'White anti-racists' find themselves trapped by endless ambiguities, contradictions, and double binds - a microcosm of the broader dilemmas of settler colonial societies and international development. These dilemmas are fueled by tension between the twin desires of equality and difference: to make Indigenous people statistically the same as non-Indigenous people (to 'close the gap') while simultaneously maintaining their 'cultural' distinctiveness. This tension lies at the heart of failed development efforts in Indigenous communities, ethnic minority populations and the global South.

Ian Macfarlane's failed attempt to switch from the Liberal Party to the Nationals highlights problems in Queensland's merger of the two main anti-Labor parties and suggests tensions within the federal Coalition. With a leadership change looming for the Nationals, Peter Clarke talks to Brian Costar, emeritus professor of politics at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, about Barnaby Joyce, Malcolm Turnbull and the balancing act that keeps the Coalition afloat. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 18 December 2015.

Timor-Leste has made an unprecedented move earlier this year when Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao stepped aside to open up the door for a government of national inclusion. This paper examines the long history of the idea of a government of national unity in the framework of the transition process from Indonesian rule to independence and democracy: a long and winding history of important consequences for the way in which the country has evolved over the last fifteen years. It then assesses the pros and cons of the current situation, calling special attention to the fact that political inclusion must be regarded in the framework of political institutions taken as a whole, rather than in every single one of them. The novel situation offers hope for broad consensus, but also raises doubts as to the role of the different institutions - namely the role of Parliament - in representing the ensemble of the Timorese citizenry and their wealth of opinions.

The Swinburne Institute for Social Research invites the Swinburne community to a forum on the Syrian refugee crisis. Three experts from the Global Justice Flagship will address the current issues. This will be followed by a Q & A session. Speakers - Professor Klaus Neumann, Professor Sandy Gifford and Inside Story editor Peter Browne - will talk about the relevant global context, about Australia's capacity to resettle refugees, and about the politics of Australia's response.

Full title: Foot soldiers of the nation or frontier capitalists? China's new diaspora in the Pacific.This paper will outline the results of seven years of research into the migration patterns of mainland Chinese entrepreneurs to the South Pacific, drawing on case studies from Papua New Guinea, Tonga and Samoa. It will examine how they negotiate interactions with the local and central state in China, their motivations for starting businesses in the Pacific, their interactions with their predecessors in ""old"" Chinese business communities, the impact of technological change on their lives, and how they navigate three rather different polities.

Full title: Crowdsourced policymaking - The motivations, expectations and profile of the crowd. Crowdsourcing in policymaking is becoming a more common method for civic engagement and knowledge search, and it is used both by local and national governments. In crowdsourced policymaking, the government invites citizens to contribute to a policymaking process and asks them to share their ideas for the policy. For instance, several federal agencies in the United States have used crowdsourcing in policy reforms, Iceland applied crowdsourcing in its constitution reform process, and the House of Representatives in Brazil have used crowdsourcing in policy reforms. Recorded 13 August 2015.

Presented by Michael McMahon, Ramon Lobato and Jock Given on Friday 24 July 2015.The last quarter of 2014 and the early months of 2015 might turn out to be a decisive time for the medium we call television. In a single week in October, US networks CBS and HBO both announced online-only subscription video services. The New York Times declared it 'a watershed moment for web-delivered television', a move by two titans of traditional TV that signalled 'how rapidly the balance of power is shifting in the television landscape'. In Australia, the TV market was very different, but online subscription video services seemed to be arriving 'all at once' as well. Foxtel launched the Presto online movie service in March 2014, halved its price in August, brought in Seven West Media as a partner in December, and added TV programs to it in January 2015. Nine Entertainment joined with Fairfax Media to launch the online video service Stan on Australia Day. Two months later, global operator Netflix started its Australian service. Like the beginning of TV itself in 1956, two decades after services began in the UK and Germany, Netflix arrived in Australia fully formed, a successful global service with massive brand recognition. Australia's TV networks were suddenly online video start-ups trying to create awareness for new brands in their own backyards. The outsider, Netflix, was already at home. This seminar will bring together a practitioner and two researchers to discuss this critical time for TV and video in Australia and elsewhere.

Presented by Prof. David Hicks on 19th June 2015.At a time when the frontiers separating the traditional scientific and scholarly disciplines are being obliterated the occasion is apt for a reconsideration of the relationships between social anthropology and its sister disciplines such as political science, sociology and literary studies. Professor David Hicks will discuss the overlap between social anthropology and history and make the case for revisiting the well-known contributions to this topic made by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who himself began his academic career as a historian, and Claude Levi-Strauss, whose advocacy of a structural approach to the human domain might be thought to imply a anti-historical regard for understanding social institutions. In demonstrating how diachronic and synchronic perspectives may be combined in their respective ways in helping to render institutions intelligible this talk examines some of the lessons learned from several periods of fieldwork in Timor-Leste beginning in 1966 by examining how archival documents and published materials may be conjoined with ethnographic research. The talk firstly describes the background to the first period in the field; then considers the extent to which archival and secondary sources were used during that first period of field research; and finally consider how the use of archival and secondary sources during the later periods of field research compared with the initial period.

Presented by Lee Humphreys on Friday 05 June 2015.Many of the ways we use social media today have longstanding precedents in historical media like diaries, journals, and scrapbooks. What we think of as the 'social media revolution' is part of a much longer story about the use of media for connecting people through the documenting and sharing of everyday life. Placing social media into a longer historical context helps to reveal what is really new about these contemporary communication technologies, what future services might learn from historical communication practices, and what fundamental aspects of the human experience emerge through a variety of technological platforms.

Professor Bronwen Morgan (University of New South Wales) seeks to bring into dialogue two previously unrelated areas of scholarship: legal consciousness and diverse economies, as a way of illuminating the analysis of community-level action for sustainability, including its troubled relationship to the emerging 'sharing economy'. She draws indirectly on a comparative UK-Australia study of 'grassroots innovations' ("networks of activists and organisations generating novel bottom-up solutions for sustainable development") in food, energy and transport. These initiatives stress, to varying degrees, civil society, activism, localism and community even while tensions emerge with particular forms of the sharing economy that enact and rely on much more extractive modes of 'business-as-usual'. Presented Friday 01 May 2015.

Presented by Deborah Lupton on the 17th April 2015.The advent of 3D printing technologies has generated new ways of representing and conceptualising health and illness, medical practice and the body. There are many social, cultural and political implications of 3D printing, but a critical sociology of 3D printing is only beginning to emerge. Deborah Lupton seeks to contribute to this nascent literature by addressing some of the ways in which 3D printing technologies are being used to convert digital data collected on human bodies and fabricate them into tangible forms that can be touched and held. She focuses in particular on the use of 3D printing to manufacture non-organic replicas of individuals' bodies, body parts or bodily functions and activities. In analysing these new forms of human bodies, Professor Lupton draws on sociomaterialist perspectives as well as the recent work of scholars who have sought to reflect on selfhood, embodiment, place and space in digital society and the nature of people's interactions with digital data. She will also address some speculations about where these technologies may be headed and outlining future research directions.

The 1992 Broadcasting Services Act simplified an unwieldy existing legislative framework and reformed the broadcasting regulator, renamed the Australian Broadcasting Authority. In accordance with the Labor government's desire for a co-ordinated expansion and diversification of services it directed the new authority to initiate an integrated nationwide spectrum review and planning process. This process was designed to identify capacity and demand for new services and to inform the subsequent release of new licences in each of Australia's commercial, community and national broadcasting sectors. In this seminar Chris K Wilson will argue that the new Act and spectrum review did more than just reveal demand: it inspired the formation of hundreds of new broadcasting organisations (particularly in the community radio sector), encouraged experimentation in broadcasting content, communication infrastructure configuration and media convergence, and clearly impacted the cultural landscape beyond broadcasting. This incredibly dynamic period of broadcasting-led cultural innovation has received little scholarly attention and has largely been passed over by Australia's collecting and exhibiting institutions. Following the presentation, Chris will open up discussion of new pathways for examining this period. This public lecture was held on Friday 20 March 2015.

Presented by Martin Fredriksson on 25 February 2015.Over the last decade, a political battle has been waged over the use and control of culture and information. While media companies and copyright organisations argue for stricter intellectual property laws, many citizens and netizens challenge the contemporary IP-regime. Lately this has resulted in what could be described as a political mobilisation of piracy. This is maybe most evident in the formation of pirate parties that see themselves as a digital civil rights movement defending the public domain and the citizen's right to privacy against copyright expansionism and increased surveillance. Since the first pirate party was formed in Sweden in 2006, similar parties have spread across the world, from USA to Australia. This presentation draws on a study of the culture and ideology of copyright resistance that involves a series of interviews with representatives of pirate parties in USA and Canada. It will take this politicisation of piracy as a starting point to discuss how contestations over copyright and piracy extends into a wider range of conflicts over resources situated in the borderland between public goods and private properties, such as urban space, natural resources and traditional knowledge.

To the surprise of most commentators, Labor looks set to form government in Queensland. Not so surprised was Brian Costar, professor of politics at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research. He talks to Peter Clarke about what went wrong for the Liberal National Party. Interview originally appeared on the Inside Story website, 1 February 2015.

Presented by Justine Humphry on 27th November 2014.Access to and affordability of digital technology for vulnerable and disadvantaged Australians is an ongoing concern. This talk reports on new research on the access and use of mobile and internet services by people experiencing homelessness and engages with key issues of digital exclusion in the context of a society-wide shift in connectivity and the reform of a wide range of public and commercial services around these changes.

Rowan Wilken from the Swinburne Institute for Social Research talks about the significance of locative media, the evolution of Foursquare, A-League football, and the growing importance of mobile apps in sports media practices and consumption.

Presented by Dr Peter Robinson on 10th October 2014.For more than a decade Peter Robinson has looked at how age and aging affect gay men's life experiences and life course. In his first book, The Changing World of Gay Men (2008) he examined the effect of generational identity on Australian gay men's coming out and relations with families, friends, lovers and partners. His second book, Gay Mens's Relationships Across the Life Course (2013) looked more closely at the effect of age and ageing on an international sample of gay men's personal and intimate relationships, for example, gay men's lives as single man or fathers and their views of marriage and cohabitation. In this presentation, he surveys principle finding from his research that have a particular focus on what ageing means to gay men.

Presented by Professor Brian Costar on 10th October 2014.Older people are said to be more materialistic and more authoritarian, making them more at home in conservative ranks, It has also been claimed that as people age, so they become more conservative. This 'life cycle' thesis was seen as conventional wisdom by the American Voter (Campbell 1960 when it was published in the early 1960's. The claim was contested by the view that conservatism among older people was due to a generational effect. A long debate has since ensued (Ian Watson 2010, 2). This seminar will assess the debate and implications for government formation in Australia.

Presented by Dr Scott Ewing on 10th October 2014.Older Australians have been slower to engage with the internet and associated technologies the than their younger counter-parts. This presentation uses Australian World Internet Project data to examine this differential pattern of adoption by older Australians and to analyse what older Australians are doing online and their attituted to the Internet.

Presented by Rowan Wilken on 22nd August 2014.This presentation examines the growing importance of Facebook as a location-focused platform. Facebook's approach has been cautious but deliberate. However, following the strategic acquisitions of location-sharing start-ups Gowalla and Glancee, Facebook has ramped up its location-based services: they launched their Nearby feature in December 2012, and adjusted their API in early 2013 to enable "seamless" location-sharing across third party applications. These, and more recent acquisitions, are part of ambitious, longer-term moves that reposition Facebook as a local recommendation service (taking on Foursquare and Yelp), and, significantly, establish Facebook as a key local, and increasingly mobile-centred, advertising portal (taking on Google).

Presented by Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns on 15th August 2014.This presentation outlines the emerging challenges for social media research in Australia, presents the current state of the field, and outlines the research agenda of the TrISMA project. In particular, we highlight the key practical, conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues which the project will need to address as it advances our current collective capabilities for conducting computationally-enabled social media research.

Presented by Professor John Hartley on 14th August 2014.This presentation reports on a new ARC Indigenous Discovery Project, won by Len Collard (UWA), Kim Scott, the late Niall Lucy and John Hartley (Curtin). It starts from the observation that there are no Australian-Aboriginal language versions of Wikipedia, although minority-language versions do appear elsewhere, including Welsh, Upper Sorbian, Cree and Maori. It seeks to create the first "Noongarpedia", using the Noongar language of SW-WA to model and assess the extent to which minority languages can thrive by using globally accessible Internet technologies.

Presented by Dr Melissa Gregg on 12th August 2014.This seminar focuses on the scopophilic aspects of large scale data visualization - the fantasy of command and control through seeing - and places these in relation to key sites and conventions inside the tech industry. Borrowing John Caldwell's notion of "industrial reflexivity", I explain the charismatic power and performative effects that attend representations of data as visual spectacle. Drawing on 12 months' experience working for a large technology company, and observations from a number of relevant showcases, conferences and events, I take a "production studies" approach to understand the forms of common sense produced in industry settings. I then offer two examples of data work understood as a new kind of "below the line" labor.

Presented by Hassan Bashir on Friday 18th July 2014.Since its introduction, in the 1990s, Comparative political theory (CPT) has seen phenomenal growth as a subfield of political theory in North American universities. Comparative theorists believe that political theory may have originated as an academic discipline in the West but it is not coterminous with it. They argue that the ongoing wave of globalization has made it inevitable for political theorists to consciously understand and incorporate the manner in which the "political" is conceived in non-western contexts. To reach this end the comparativists frequently construct imaginary East-West dialogues with the ultimate objective of achieving a fusion of horizons between the East and the West. This talk critically evaluates the usefulness of such an approach and argues that CPT's objective, of finding a middle ground between euro-centrism and euro-denial, has the potential of introducing the likes of a Khunian paradigmatic shift within the academic discipline of political theory in the West. However, this is only possible if comparativists expand the scope of CPT to periods earlier than late modernity and detach it from the condition and the demands of the current wave of globalization.

Presented by Professor Diane Bell on 24th June 2014.Turning the anthropological gaze on Australian society and the institutions that purport to 'protect and conserve the past', Diane Bell brings us up to date with post Hindmarsh Bridge Ngarrindjeri culture. The women have been vindicated, the State has apologised. However, the legacy lingers. How has the potent intertwining of gender, race and class inflected what can be known of Ngarrindjeri culture? Can self-authored accounts be trusted? What is the role of 'engaged research'?

Presented by Karen Devine on 4th July 2014.Karen Devine discusses whether ordinary American citizens have espoused greater levels of patriotism in response to the 9/11 attacks, using survey data from 1981 to 2013. She also examines whether there are any group-based differences (by party identification, gender and race) and changes detectable over time. Her research points to three main findings: (1) levels of pride in national identity are variable in relation US foreign policy events, (2) patriotism is a social construct (given variation by race) and a political device (given variation by party identification) and (3) because, as Martha C. Nussbaum pointed out, "the media portrayed the [9/11] disaster as a tragedy that happened to our nation", discourses constructing foreign policy events as linked to the Nation are purposive given the associated political and policy outcomes.

Dr. Aina Puce is the Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington. She received her Masters of Applied Science in Physics from Swinburne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia and her PhD in Medicine from the University of Melbourne. She then went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship in Neurosurgery at Yale University and has held faculty positions at Swinburne University of Technology, West Virginia University, and currently Indiana University. Aina is with us today to tell us about her journey through life and science.

Keynote presentation by Professor Julian Thomas, Director of Swinburne Institute of Social Research and Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology. Delivered as part of the Where is the Evidence? conference,10 October 2012. (Part 2 of 8)