Virginia Trioli
Journalist at ABC Weekend Reads Newsletter
Host at ABC Melbourne
Journalist and broadcaster, host of Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne. Find me on the ABC Listen app! My own views, always.
Articles
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1 week ago |
abc.net.au | Virginia Trioli
Tim Minchin sits beneath the towering glass prow of the Sydney Opera House, the spring sun pouring down on him like a benediction, as he pounds the keys of a grand piano. He's going wild — either barely hanging onto the threads of a musical idea, or masterfully improvising. Either way, we may be in the middle of filming him for an episode of Creative Types, but when Tim is at the piano, the world disappears.
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Virginia Trioli
It was just the kind of thing that the tabloid media loves to call a "cat-fight". Back in the go-go late-80s, when a young Kylie Minogue was hitting the big time with a string of UK and Australian number ones, an equally young Kate Ceberano had something to say about it. In an article in a Melbourne newspaper headlined, "Kate KO's Kylie", Kate said Kylie was nothing more than a marketing success, and that "nobody with any taste buys her records".
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2 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Virginia Trioli
My son leaned over and hit pause on the remote, eyes wide and fixed. "All that for a 13-year-old?" incredulity competing with perhaps a little outrage, as we watched an assault of five police cars, a divvy van, a special forces team and senior police inspectors as they raided the quiet suburban home of an unsuspecting family in search of their skinny, still-sleeping 13-year-old son.
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3 weeks ago |
abc.net.au | Virginia Trioli
George Miller, the Academy Award-winning polymath filmmaker, is leaning towards me intently. I am telling him that in the 11 years that I presented News Breakfast on ABC TV, I don't once remember dreaming. My overnight life of epic, cinematic dreams ended the moment I became an early-morning broadcaster, but then returned the very night I stopped.
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1 month ago |
abc.net.au | Virginia Trioli
The last time I heard a woman yelled at in the street, the tirade ended in the time-honoured tradition of an angry bloke calling her a "stupid See-You-Next-Tuesday". It's an international term we all recognise, like it's the "worst word" in the world for the "worst thing in the world". Or so we've always been told.
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