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Chris Lilley
June 2024
For years the best-known Tongan on Australian TV was played by Chris Lilley. At last Pasifika artists are being recognised
Winnie Dunn
It’s an honour to be the first Tongan writer to publish a novel in Australia – but why did it take so long for our mob to get here?
October 2023
Weekly Beast
Daily Mail misconstrues Ray Martin’s contempt for ‘nonsensical’ no slogan and Ampol fuels Walkley scholarship
Amanda Meade
Veteran TV presenter makes clear he wasn’t condemning no voters in voice speech, while Ampol presence causes embarrassment at journalism awards
June 2020
Culture warriors obsessed with statues ignore Rio Tinto’s vandalism of Indigenous heritage
Jeff Sparrow
Cancellation or censorship: should Chris Lilley's work and Australia's statues be gone with the wind?
The Pacific project
Chris Lilley's Jonah is not from Tonga, I am. It's time to dismantle racist brownface stereotypes
Seini F Taumoepeau
Four Chris Lilley shows removed from Netflix Australia library
April 2019
Lunatics is nasty and grotesque. Chris Lilley's career is shot
Chris Lilley's Lunatics review: unfunny, boring and utterly unrelenting
TV review
Lunatics review – thankfully no blackface, but still painfully unfunny
Weekly Beast
Sky News at war as Paul Murray and Kieran Gilbert trade blows: 'Let's get into it'
Amanda Meade
April 2018
The generation gap is back – but not as we know it
Brigid Delaney
There is an ideological conflict brewing between ‘woke’ millennials and an older generation, a conflict where neither understands the other
March 2018
Comedy or cruelty: does Chris Lilley have a place in 2018?
David Renshaw
Can the divisive nature of Lilley’s humour exist in a TV landscape where diversity is more important than ever?
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