Author Archive for Justine Marshall

Justine Marshall is Sydney born and bred, but on a quest to visit every country in the world at least once. She decided to begin by trying to conquer all countries beginning with ‘i’ and then later realised that this included Iran and Iraq. She remains undeterred. Between bouts of travel she does odd jobs, none of which ever seem to involve anything she learned in five years studying Italian at university. Her interests include current affairs, photography, food and the colour blue. She will eat just about anything and is often found at the cinema, stuck into a gossip mag in a café, or singing loudly and discordantly to something on Triple J while driving. She has never been known to arrive on time.

Book Review: The Inconvenient Child
2

Book Review: The Inconvenient Child

Justine Marshall reviews The Inconvenient Child: “a compelling story, and one that should be heard”.

Review: Godzone
1

Review: Godzone

“The trademark Gillies dress-ups and parodies of political identities were present but uninspiring; the satire restricted to the occasional snappy line.” Justine Marshall reviews Godzone at the Seymour Centre.

Review: St Jerome's Laneway Festival, Sydney
0

Review: St Jerome’s Laneway Festival, Sydney

From pamphlet to Bible-size, the ever-growing Laneway Festival may have lost its intimate charm. Justin Marshall reports.

Precious Premiere
1

Precious Premiere

Justine Marshall reviews the premier of ‘Precious’ presented by Icon Entertainment and the White Ribbon Foundation of Australia, which aims to eliminate violence against women.

Event: Our Girls: Aussie Pin-ups of the 40s and 50s
0

Event: Our Girls: Aussie Pin-ups of the 40s and 50s

“Australian women were wholesome, outdoorsy and healthy – real girls-next-door.” Justine Marshall spends an afternoon with Madeleine Hamilton, author of Our Girls; Aussie Pin Ups of the 40s and 50s and listens to the tales of original pin up girl, Margherita Hambly.

And the Leader Is ...
6

And the Leader Is …

Justine Marshall attempts to make sense of a big week in Australian federal politics and, drowning, not waving, from a mire of acronyms, explains how an ETS called CPRS managed to sink the “Turnbull Experiment”.

The Tribe Has Spoken - But What did it Say?
1

The Tribe Has Spoken – But What did it Say?

In the wake of the Sydney University ‘Define Statutory’ fall out, Justine Marshall delves into the tribal mentality to examine the role it plays in breeding a misogynistic culture.

Black Death - Coffee in the USA
2

Black Death – Coffee in the USA

My workplace features one of those drip-filter coffee pots that were last seen when the Olympics were televised from Korea, or in McDonalds before they went all McCafé.  Think bulbous glass and acrid smell.  Early in the morning a pot is brewed (a dreadful word that, somewhat accurately for this example, conjures up an image [...]

Ironic? I don't think so.
3

Ironic? I don’t think so.

I didn’t watch Hey Hey last Wednesday night but by Thursday morning the scandal was splashing gleefully across all media and sadly it was unavoidable. After excited re-tellings in office gossip and the requisite YouTube viewing I was happy to put it away in the file marked “Tasteless, Outdated Crap Shown on Channel Nine” and [...]

Review: Synecdoche, New York
0

Review: Synecdoche, New York

“Synecdoche (n.): grammar & rhetoric A figure of speech in which a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive one or vice versa, as a whole for a part or a part for a whole.”
Thanks to the Oxford Dictionary for that, although the definition does also appear in the opening screen of the [...]

Postcard: From Lima to Cuzco, the long way
0

Postcard: From Lima to Cuzco, the long way

Justine Marshall sends us a postcard from Peru on the bus ride that nearly broke a grown woman.

Mr Prime Minister, it's time for my bottle.
0

Mr Prime Minister, it’s time for my bottle.

Yesterday’s papers and news bulletins frowned seriously and ran through loops of footage of Sydney’s latest shark attack victim, a fifteen year-old boy from Avalon on the northern beaches, being airlifted to hospital.  Words and phrases such as “mauled”, “horrific” and “menace in the waters” were dragged out and used with a fascinating and perverse [...]