Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is a homosexual Greek Australian writer, born in Richmond and studied at Melbourne University as an editor in the student union. Tsiolkas is known to be a shocking, controversial writer basing his work on social and political issues surrounding the Australia of today including family, class, friendship and ethnicity in the typical suburban setting. Tsioklas is not afraid to bring up the controversial topics ‘ he calls racism by its name, but not ashamed to dig around the experience of racism and its effects’. ( The Australian Face pg. 2). Barracuda raises all these questions and controversial issues as well as in his fourth novel The Slap. However, as The slap is segmented into eight different perspectives of ‘infidelity rage and childcare rage’(Barracuda and middle-class…

I swung up and slid gently into my saddle as the worn leather creaked slightly as I situated myself on Buttons my mare. The leather felt cool to the touch and the warm Colorado sun shone out of a clean slate of blue that brought out the comforting smell of horse and leather. I breathed in deeply and caught the piney scent of the sage brush which quickly turned to dust in my nose as the horses in the corral churned up the dry, dusty dirt of the mountains. I rode past the weathered wooden barn…

With one dramatic no, a major artist has just escalated the culture world’s war against Donald J. Trump. For more than 20 years, the artist Christo has worked tirelessly and spent $15 million of his own money to create a vast public artwork in Colorado that would draw thousands of tourists and rival the ambition of “The Gates,” the saffron transformation of Central Park that made him and Jeanne-Claude, his collaborator and wife, two of the most talked-about artists of their generation. But…

In this book we shall explore some mysteries about life. Things that are not easily noticed in the natural, yet you see, touch or even get involved in them and they impact your life on a daily basis. Infact your very success, fulfillment or survival on this plane of existence depend on them - spiritual Gates. The addiction or problem that someone is going through might be as a result of a simple or negligible, yet destructive access made available at that gate. It could be as a result of bad…

‘The Mouth Holds the Tongue’ is an instillation piece designed and built by Lili Huston-Herterich, Laurie Kang and Nadia Belerique and installed at The Power Plant in Toronto, Ontario. The design of the piece is based structurally on the Sonsbeek Pavilion in Arnhem which was designed by Aldo van Eyck, who championed the structuralist architectural movement. The Toronto based trio of Kang, Belerique, Huston-Herterich have taken their own interpretation guided by there respective mediums;…

(11). Therefore, indicating that the immigrant population would forget their prior heritage for a new beginning in Australia, and a new identity, and that the Australian citizens would be reassured that the Australian identity would remain unchanged. These perceptions were formed due to the belief in the impact that immigration would have on Australia, rather than the real effects and consequences of immigration (qtd. In Ueffing, et al. 439). Ng described this false depiction of the binary…

the process however on further reflection those requirements and restrictions are comparable to those placed upon a director by a producer or artistic director. This process included auditions, production meetings, readings, rehearsals and the eventual staging of the production. Along with myself on this production was Morag Cook who assisted me in design, Dr Anne Thompson who assisted me in the role of director, and Andrew Bailey who was our Stage Manager. The script Who’s Afraid of the…