Duncan Fine
Duncan Fine grew up on the mean streets of Sydney’s toughest neighbourhood, Vaucluse.
Having virtually no aptitude for the law whatsoever, he left his job as a solicitor and somehow got into NIDA where he studied directing. He worked at the Sydney Theatre Company, wrote and directed a number of plays, then moved into TV working for Hi-5.
He writes about media and children. He wrote a nationally syndicated parenting column for News Limited and co-authored the book, Why TV is Good For Kids. Duncan has also written opinion pieces in The Australian and the Sydney Morning Herald.
He has a delightful partner, two sometimes delightful young sons and a dog named Scruff who is starting his own Facebook page, Poodles Against Negative Stereotyping in the Media.
Articles by Duncan Fine
A father’s advice to his sons
I once wrote and directed a play (yes, a real play – in a theatre, in front of an audience)…... Read more
There’s no such thing as junk food, only junk diets
At least once a week, when I open the newspaper there seems to be some fresh new panic about the…... Read more
Romy and Michele and Duncan’s School Reunion
Are there four syllables in the English language to strike fear into the hearts of men and women across Australia…... Read more
As I watch my mother slowly dying
It’s one of pop culture’s great clichés that some actors and some films are best known for their great dying…... Read more
Junk food doesn’t make kids fat - junk parents do
Does anyone else find it quite frankly perverse that in affluent first-world Australia so much time is spent fretting about…... Read more
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Dark Horse says:
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so true. My brother has cerebral palsy, is blind and is intellectually disabled. He is also a gold medalist paralympian, He is retired from that now and works every day selling the big issue in Melbourne. For all he has put into society, he gets very little back. He has to live in a rooming house with… [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
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