Sky Kirkham
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The Art Show and Arts in 30 at Radio National. Photos by me. All opinions my own.
On this week's Weekender, we take on Pluribus and Wicked: For Good. Plus Sharon Van Etten's Australian tour is a good excuse to revisit the latest album, and Last Samurai Standing is a fun version of the Battle Royale template.
Weekender: Breaking consensus on Pluribus and Wicked For Good manages to land the broomstick - ABC listen
Everyone in the world has come together in a single voice: shared perspective, shared understanding, shared goals - harmony.
That's both the plot of Pluribus and a rough summary of how critics have ...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
On this week's Weekender, we take on Pluribus and Wicked: For Good. Plus Sharon Van Etten's Australian tour is a good excuse to revisit the latest album, and Last Samurai Standing is a fun version of the Battle Royale template.
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Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
On the Arts in 30 Weekender, we're joined by Jason di Rosso from RN's Screen Show to take a look at the week in cinema, with If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Two Prosecutors and Running Man. And new music releases from Rosalia and Mountain Goats
Weekender: Running Man and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You take on the perils of parenthood and Rosalia makes a play for album of the year - ABC listen
Rose Byrne puts in an award-winning performance as a woman under pressure in the excellent If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Glen Powell takes on an all-powerful media company in a dystopian future for the ...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
On the Arts in 30 Weekender, we're joined by Jason di Rosso from RN's Screen Show to take a look at the week in cinema, with If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Two Prosecutors and Running Man. And new music releases from Rosalia and Mountain Goats
This week on the show we looked at the proposed local content quotas with Julianne Schultz and Guy Morrow. And Sarah L'Estrange takes us into the Booker prize winning novel Flesh by David Szalay.
Local content quotas announced for streaming platforms and David Szalay wins the Booker - ABC listen
The Federal Government has announced plans for a local content quota for streaming video services in Australia. Any service with more than one million subscribers will be required to spend a percentag...
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
This week on the show we looked at the proposed local content quotas with Julianne Schultz and Guy Morrow. And Sarah L'Estrange takes us into the Booker prize winning novel Flesh by David Szalay.
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“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.”
Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.”
Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Starting to think about my 2025 mixtape - track highlights from this year.
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Starting to think about my 2025 mixtape - track highlights from this year.
A daily bird I've enjoyed seeing (or as often as I remember to actually post)
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A daily bird I've enjoyed seeing (or as often as I remember to actually post)
Hiromi + PUBLIQuartet was one of the best gigs I've seen this year. Virtuosic playing with absolutely compelling performances. Brilliant way to close out the jazz festival.
October 26, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Hiromi + PUBLIQuartet was one of the best gigs I've seen this year. Virtuosic playing with absolutely compelling performances. Brilliant way to close out the jazz festival.
Latest episode of Weekender takes on Wayward (yay?), After the Hunt (boo!), and I recommend the latest show at Heide and the new album by The Antlers.
Weekender: Wayward maintains its direction, on the hunt against After the Hunt, and two great art exhibitions. - ABC listen
Featuring troubled children in a small American town, an outsider who can sense that something is wrong, and hints of the supernatural, Wayward seems influenced by the work of Stephen King, but Ce arg...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Latest episode of Weekender takes on Wayward (yay?), After the Hunt (boo!), and I recommend the latest show at Heide and the new album by The Antlers.
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“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/XogpEAK
Stacked boards driving ‘rotten’ university sector
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October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“This inquiry has… exposed what lies beneath the tip of the governance failure iceberg – overpaid and arrogant management and their largesse, opaque, unaccountable, and top-down decision-making, and governance bodies stacked with corporate appointees.” satpa.pe/XogpEAK
This seems extremely embarrassing re: the state of Aus politics
Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This seems extremely embarrassing re: the state of Aus politics
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I’m not a fancy big city lawyuh, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how copyright works.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I’m not a fancy big city lawyuh, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how copyright works.
An early edition of Arts in 30 Weekender, with Jason Di Rosso joining us for a chat about One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II
Weekender: One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II tell very different stories of the world - ABC listen
With two major films launching this week, The Screen Show's Jason Di Rosso pops in to share his thoughts.
One of Hollywood's major auteurs, Paul Thomas Anderson, brings us his second adaptation of Th...
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September 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
An early edition of Arts in 30 Weekender, with Jason Di Rosso joining us for a chat about One Battle After Another and Spinal Tap II
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Very glad to be able to speak to ABC RN's Arts in 30 about the closure of Meanjin.
Thanks, @skykirkham.bsky.social
Discussion starts at 20mins:
Thanks, @skykirkham.bsky.social
Discussion starts at 20mins:
Arts In 30 - ABC listen
Your weekly dose of news and interviews from ABC Radio National’s arts and culture team.
www.abc.net.au
September 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Very glad to be able to speak to ABC RN's Arts in 30 about the closure of Meanjin.
Thanks, @skykirkham.bsky.social
Discussion starts at 20mins:
Thanks, @skykirkham.bsky.social
Discussion starts at 20mins:
Second episode of the Weekender is up - featuring guest host Claire Nichols. We look at the huge success of The Studio, share book tips (The Names and What We Can Know), music tips (Springsteen and Wisp) and pay tribute to Robert Redford.
Weekender: The Studio sweeps the Emmy's, the lingering power of The Names, and a Springsteen rarity revealed - ABC listen
Claire Nichols from The Book Show joins the team to talk through the biggest name in comedy at the moment: The Studio. With a record-breaking 13 Emmy's at the 2025 awards, we share our takes on what's...
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September 19, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Second episode of the Weekender is up - featuring guest host Claire Nichols. We look at the huge success of The Studio, share book tips (The Names and What We Can Know), music tips (Springsteen and Wisp) and pay tribute to Robert Redford.
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Ah, yes, what a shock, who could have seen this coming, it's not like it has been a long standing issue with facial recognition systems since inception or anything...
Social media ban trial data reveals racial bias in age checking software www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...
Social media ban trial data reveals racial bias in age checking software: just how inaccurate is it?
Young people from Indigenous and Asian backgrounds are more likely to be miscategorised as over the age limit and older people as underaged, analysis finds
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Ah, yes, what a shock, who could have seen this coming, it's not like it has been a long standing issue with facial recognition systems since inception or anything...
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The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
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RIP to Robert Redford, one of the best to ever do it (and a dozen other things on top of that)
Here’s an excerpt from a 2017 interview that he did with Esquire, in which he discusses his career, the Trump presidency and a slew of other things all very articulately
Remember him for the work
Here’s an excerpt from a 2017 interview that he did with Esquire, in which he discusses his career, the Trump presidency and a slew of other things all very articulately
Remember him for the work
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
RIP to Robert Redford, one of the best to ever do it (and a dozen other things on top of that)
Here’s an excerpt from a 2017 interview that he did with Esquire, in which he discusses his career, the Trump presidency and a slew of other things all very articulately
Remember him for the work
Here’s an excerpt from a 2017 interview that he did with Esquire, in which he discusses his career, the Trump presidency and a slew of other things all very articulately
Remember him for the work
Thorough and fascinating examination of what remains publically known (and unknown) around the decision to end Meanjin
New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?
Who killed Meanjin?
And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?
www.crikey.com.au
September 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Thorough and fascinating examination of what remains publically known (and unknown) around the decision to end Meanjin
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Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith - story by Paul Daley www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith
Exclusive: Governing council ‘retrospectively’ decides the Les Carlyon literary award should go only to first-time authors, ruling out Chris Masters’ book
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Australian War Memorial defers military history prize after judging panel awards it to book on Ben Roberts-Smith - story by Paul Daley www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A new weekly extra for Arts in 30 - we set the news aside and bring you our tips on what to check out and what to skip from the world of arts. This week: Why genre fiction deserves a place in the top books of the century (we pick Mieville and Pratchett), and the new album from Bleak Squad
Weekender: The case for genre fiction in the Top 100 and a new Australian supergroup - ABC listen
Welcome to the Arts in 30 Weekender, where we're setting the news aside and sharing our tips on what to check out and what to skip from the world of the arts.
With voting for the Radio National Top 1...
www.abc.net.au
September 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A new weekly extra for Arts in 30 - we set the news aside and bring you our tips on what to check out and what to skip from the world of arts. This week: Why genre fiction deserves a place in the top books of the century (we pick Mieville and Pratchett), and the new album from Bleak Squad
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Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
On Arts in 30: With Meanjin set to close after 85 years, @greenj.bsky.social looks at the finances of running a literary mag and @beneltham.bsky.social explains why he's organising a protest to save it. And @jennifermills.net.au on what the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement will mean for Aus writers
September 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
On Arts in 30: With Meanjin set to close after 85 years, @greenj.bsky.social looks at the finances of running a literary mag and @beneltham.bsky.social explains why he's organising a protest to save it. And @jennifermills.net.au on what the $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement will mean for Aus writers