Friday essay: why is Australian satire so rarely risky?

Alex Cothren; Robert Phiddian

Friday essay: why is Australian satire so rarely risky?

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

About a year ago, a Daily Telegraph journalist rang one of us (let’s call him Robert for convenience). She was writing a story about how political correctness was killing comedy and wanted an academic to support the argument. Now “Robert” feels that he is paid, in part, out of government coffers to express views in his area of expertise when asked, so he held forth at length about how this was a silly way to look at the issue.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publisher	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 15 Mar 2019

Keywords

Political correctness
Satire
Comedy
anti-PC

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