Bob Ellis obituary: Man of a million words

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 04 Apr 2016
 BOB ELLIS 1942-2016. Early one morning in the 1970s the cartoonist Michael Leunig opened his Melbourne door to the writers Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank ... Bob Carr, for whom Ellis was a speech writer and a sort of jester cum fool during his days as NSW premier, thought his friend should have gone to London ... So he wrote speechs for Bob Carr, Paul Keating, Kim Beazley and Mike Rann....

Menendez, Booker Join Colleagues, Former Members of Congress in Filing Amicus Brief in Support of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan (Robert Menendez)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Apr 2016
Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-NJ) today joined a bipartisan group of 44 current and former Senators and 164 current and former House members - including a former Republican ... Representatives Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), Tom Downey (D-NY), Bill Hughes (D-NJ), George Miller (D-CA), Jim Moran (D-VA), Milton 'Bob' Carr (D-MI) and Henry A....

Bob Ellis, prolific writer and former Labor speechwriter, dies aged 73

Edit The Guardian 03 Apr 2016
The writer and former political speechwriter Bob Ellis has died aged 73 ... A prolific author, journalist and screenwriter, Ellis wrote speeches for Labor leaders including Bob Carr, Paul Keating and Kim Beazley.He famously stood against Bronwyn Bishop in the seat of Mackellar in 1994 ... Vale Bob Ellis ... Vale Bob Ellis - a gifted troublemaker and and dangerously likeable....

Orlando Philharmonic reimagines 'The Magic Flute'

Edit The Examiner 02 Apr 2016
With incredible economy of resources, a lean production design, and an eye for jest and banter, the Orlando Philharmonic opened on Friday evening its freewheeling take on Mozart’s The Magic Flute ... The switch from the Bob Carr to the Plaza Live allowed the creative team for all kinds of liberal, humorous twists in the production. “Papageno to stage right,” announces an onstage production technician ... She also handled piccolo duties ... ....

Hypothetical excerpts from MP Dennis Jensen's sexy war novel

Edit The Guardian 31 Mar 2016
The Sky Warriors is the ‘controversial’ first novel written by federal Liberal MP Dennis Jensen, about a fictional war between Australia and Asian nations. As the first details emerge, Ben Jenkins takes a guess at what might lie within. @bencjenkins. email. THE HERO. Daniel Jarman took a long drag on his electronic cigarette and stared hard at the Indian Ocean ... Related. Bob Carr, political writing and the sovereignty of the mind ... THE ACTION....

Is it just too hard to be prime minister in 2016?

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 30 Mar 2016
 In the future, Andy Warhol said, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. In Australia's future, everyone will be prime minister for 15 minutes, before being brutally rolled ... Our political system's become as volatile as Kanye West on Twitter ... Advertisement ... For a decade, Bob Carr dominated NSW headlines with a carefully-curated stream of "announceables", but nowadays it's harder to control the news cycle ... ....
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