Ching Chong China Girl launch

I launched the memoirs of former ABC China correspondent Helene Chung, "Ching Chong China Girl" - at Asialink, Melbourne University March 2008

`Totem Maker' Tom Bass -

interviewing veteran sculptor, Tom Bass at his retrospective, Sydney Opera House Nov.2006

with pianist Michael Kieran Harvey after Hartley Newnham concert, Daylesford Vic. 2006

Crooked Members

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's most controversial leader since Mussolini, has blocked plans for a dramatically curving skyscraper designed for Milan by one of the world's most original architects, Daniel Liebskind - on the grounds the tower is not `manly' - ie. erect - enough.

According to The Art Newspaper Liebskind hit back, calling Berlusconi `abominable', while Italian cultural guru Umberto Eco's view on the building was: " Milan is full of people with crooked members, there will simply be one more in need of Viagra".