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trevorbarre · 3 years

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Alexander Hawkins: ‘Music for 16 Musicians’, the Latest Instalment of a Long Debate?

Alexander Hawkins’ new, large-scale work, Music for Sixteen Musicians provides a capacious alembic for the pianist’s alchemy, and has been given a very comprehensive review by Daniel Spicer in this month’s Wire (February 2021). These comments are therefore merely a few extra thoughts to add to Daniel’s.

I’m a massive fan of Hawkins, and he must now surely be our most distinguished keyboard player? (Tracey and Tippett having passed, and with Howard Riley now sadly largely incapacitated) This latest (along with his other recent solo, duet and quartet recordings) is released on the Swiss Intakt label, which was initially set up to provide an outlet for another distinguished pianist, Irene Schweizer, but is probably best known for it’s cataloguing of Barry Guy’s London Jazz Composers Orchestra (LJCO) records. Guy’s interest in, and love of, classical music (of all stripes, especially Baroque, and apart from 19th century Romanticism) is well known, and the LJCO’s use of symphonic structures reflects this, so I was interested to note the label’s turning towards Hawkins, whose versatility and open-minded musical catholicism match Guy’s. (Intakt and the LJCO have now parted company, just to say.) I also noted the album’s similar typography to that of ECM Records, whose version of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians is particularly resonant here. Another ECM recording that I am drawn back to, as a point of comparison, is Roscoe Mitchell’s Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (ECM 1872), another extended work that co-situates jazz/free improvisation with what Martin Davidson called ‘European non-improvised art music’ (ENIAM), in John Wickes’ history of British modern jazz.

Daniel Spicer describes the similarity of the first track to Gyorgy Ligeti’s ‘Lontano’, and James Fei, who writes the notes for the record sleeve, cites Luciano Berio’s ‘Sequences’’ as a reference point that should be familiar to the ‘Hawkins generation’ (my own expression). Now, ENIAM is not really my field, but from what I can gather, Berio’s compositions give room for ‘extended techniques’ for various instruments (connecting it directly to the free improvisation grid?) Barry Guy has recorded an interpretation for double bass on ‘Sequenza XIV’ (originally intended for the cello),’’Sequenza VII’, originally aimed at the oboe, has been reworked for soprano saxophone. (Not by Evan Parker, incidentally, but you get the point.) Barry Guy has expressed his love of Krzysztof Penderecki (to whom parts of the recording under discussion bear some comparison to) and Iannis Xenakis (whose work for solo double bass, ‘Theraps’, he has performed successfully, even to the high standards demanded by it’s composer). Derek Bailey and John Stevens regularly cited Anton Webern as an admired influence. Although both John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen claimed to despise improvisation as an informing influence, the latter’s Aus Dem Sieben Tagen was improvisation by a different name, and the former’s ‘prepared piano’, have provided generations of free improvisers with a methodology. To return to the theme of one of my recent blogs. Eddie Prevost’s latest book, ‘An Uncommon Music for the Common Man’ explored potential overlaps between free improv and ‘modern’ classical music. (much of which is now nearly 100 years old!)

To my under-qualified ears, Music for16 Musicians demonstrates a more seamless syncretism (if we have to use such a word) than Roscoe Mitchell’s ‘improvisation’, meaning no disrespect to the latter’s axis of some of London and Chicago’s finest improvisers. 16 Musicians uses the talents of the Riot Ensemble, who generally, as far as I can ascertain, are one of several string quartets who mainly perform ‘contemporary classical’ as a living, but are also very flexible and polymorphic when they want to be. It also employs Evan Parker, who very neatly acts as a link to Mitchell’s Transatlantic Art Ensemble. (Parker performs, along with Barry Guy and Paul Lytton, on Composition/Improvisation 1,2 & 3.) Both of these two works are significant achievements, but for me (at least initially, I only got the album a few days back), Hawkins’ work feels like the ‘jazz/improv’ side hasn’t been essentially rinsed out. (As it has, for example, in Ornette’s string-driven things?). Roscoe’s work, on the other hand, apart from the free jazz ‘blowout’ that is the 18-minute ‘III’, tends to veer towards ENIAM. But then again, with artists of this calibre, the listener is often unable to distinguish between ‘Composition//Improvisation’. (Hence the ‘slash’?)

And so the age-old ‘false binaries’ debate continues...

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jaeame-blog · 6 years

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Report Former Newsreader Is About To Name A Heap Of Media Industry Abusers | Tracey Spicer

And with knowledge and contacts from her years spent helping bring Hughes to justice, Ms Monahan has pitched in to help veteran newsreader Tracey Spicer. Journalist Tracey Spicer has 'been sent audio tapes and email evidence' after vowing to name and shame perpetrators of sexual harassment. Tracey Spicer is about to drop the mother of all bombs on the Australian media and entertainment industries. GT has three Word for Word Festival: Tracey Spicer Prize Packs to give away.

Sexual misconduct crusader Tracey Spicer has revealed at least 65 Australian media and entertainment figures are under the spotlight as part of her campaign to uncover assault and harassment in the industry. Tracey Spicer, who has been working in Australian media for over 20 years, is promising to expose some of the worst-offending sexual predators next month. Picture: AP Tracey Spicer is on a mission to stamp out sexual harassment in the film industry.Journalist Tracey Spicer, who is working on an investigation to name and shame "serial predators" in the industry, recently revealed misconduct claims against late Nine News director John Sorell. Renowned broadcast journalist Tracey Spicer is reportedly close to releasing details of sexual misconduct in Australia's media industry.

#Tracey Spicer

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auswomenwriters · 7 years

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June 2017 Round-up: History, Memoir and Biography

The month of June saw eighteen books reviewed in the History, Memoir and Biography category, with memoirs again constituting the majority of reviews.

War and Peace

Three memoirs, from three different time-spans and countries, explored the juxtaposition between war and peace. Yvonne Perkins reviewed the late Anne Deveson’s memoir Waging Peace, subtitled “reflections on peace and war from an…

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#Anne Devison #Baba Schwarz #Cathy McLennan #Joyce Morgan #kim mahood #Olivera Simic #Ruth Cracknell #Tracey Spicer

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shuvani99 · 7 years

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The Good Girl Stripped Bare I have just finished The Good Girl Stripped Bare (ABC Books), by Tracey Spicer, and have a cacophony of emotions coarsing through me.

#ABC Books #Book #The Good Girl Stripped Bare #Tracey Spicer

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argumate · 5 years

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Australian journalist Tracey Spicer called for reports of harassment in local media and received reports from 500 women naming 65 men, so that’s a solid 8:1 ratio even before you consider that probably half of those women were naming Don Burke in particular.

#reblog2017

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madlovenovelist · 6 months

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Book Review – ‘The Good Girl Stripped Bare’ by Tracey Spicer

A story of women in journalism and the prejudice they face… Genre: Memoir, Non-Fiction No. of pages: 352 From bogan to boned and beyond – a full-frontal ‘femoir’ by one of Australia’s best-loved journalists. Tracey Spicer was always the good girl. Inspired by Jana Wendt, this bogan from the Brisbane backwaters waded through the ‘cruel and shallow money trench’ of television to land a dream…

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wentworthqueenbeasmith · 6 years

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Tracey Spicer Launches Workplace Harassment Initiative NOW. http://www.bandt.com.au/media/tracey-spicer-launches-now

#timeup #metoo

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sophreads · 3 years

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Books I read in 2017

I love reading, but I wasn’t doing it as much as I wanted to - so I set myself a challenge of reading a ‘book a week’ in 2017 (inspired by Paige and Jonty). I had a lot of fun and am very happy that I reached my goal!

I really liked almost all of these books, but my particular favourites are marked in bold. Re-reads are marked with a ^. Here are the books I read:

1. My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante – 5/1

2. Reckoning: A Memoir – Magda Szubanski – 9/1

3. The Mission Song – John Le Carre – 16/1

4. The Secret River – Kate Grenville – 19/1

5. Dear Life: On Caring For The Elderly – Karen Hitchcock – 26/1

6. What It Takes: The Way to the White House – Richard Ben Cramer – 18/2

7. Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty – 19/2

^ 8. Saving Francesca – Melina Marchetta – 23/2

9. The Empathy Exams: Essays – Leslie Jamison – 2/3

10. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis – JD Vance – 4/3

11. Ready Player One – Ernest Cline – 10/3

12. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia – Peter Pomerantsev – 15/3

^ 13. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power – Steve Coll – 4/4

14. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed – Jon Ronson – 9/4

15. SS-GB – Len Deighton – 25/4

^ 16. Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) – Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson – 2/5

17. Depends What You Mean by Extremist: Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables – John Safran – 7/5

18. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – 15/5

19. The Spare Room – Helen Garner – 16/5

20. Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics – Katrine Marcal – 17/5

21. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies – Jared Diamond – 28/5

22. The Adolescent Country – Peter Hartcher – 30/5

23. The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead – 2/6

24. Political Amnesia: How We Forgot to Govern – Laura Tingle – 6/6

25. Shrill – Lindy West – 13/6

26. Searching for the Secret River – Kate Grenville – 20/6

27. The Good Girl Stripped Bare – Tracey Spicer – 29/6

^ 28. Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil – Melina Marchetta – 3/7

29. The Green Road – Anne Enright – 10/7

30. Joe Cinque’s Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law – Helen Garner – 12/7

31. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote – 23/7

32. Stop Fixing Women – Catherine Fox – 29/7

33. All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr – 6/8

34. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It – Paul Collier – 13/8

35. The Wife Drought: Why Women Need Wives and Men Need Lives – Annabel Crabb – 16/8

^ 36. Tinker, Tailer, Solider, Spy – John Le Carre – 19/8

37. The Death of Yugoslavia – Allan Little and Laura Silber – 5/9

38. Supermarket Monsters: The Price of Coles and Woolworths’ Dominance – Malcolm Knox – 7/9

39. Commonwealth – Ann Patchett – 10/9

40. A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara – 16/9

41. Talking To My Country – Stan Grant – 19/9

42. Stasiland: Stories from behind the Berlin Wall – Anna Funder – 26/9

43. The Museum of Modern Love – Heather Rose – 11/10

44. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West – William Cronon – 19/10

45. People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks – 28/10

46. Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation – Robert Manne – 31/10

47. La Belle Sauvage – Philip Pullman – 2/11

48. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads – Tim Wu – 12/11

49. A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Bachman – 16/11

50. Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy’s Son – Mark Colvin – 24/11

51. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – John Le Carre – 28/11

52. Without America: Australia in the New Asia – Hugh White – 4/12

53. Fight Like a Girl – Clementine Ford – 11/12

54. Still Alice – Lisa Genova – 11/12

55. The Downfall of Money: Germany’s Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class – Frederick Taylor – 30/12

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dearmrsawyer · 6 years

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Today my friend i went to a local livestream of an All About Women festival that was being held at Sydney Opera House. We found out it was being livestreamed to around 30 locations all across Australia and New Zealand! I’d seen a couple of the women set to participate on the news during this week, and it really got me excited for the type of speakers who would be involved. So many Americans had come over to get involved, which made it feel like a big deal! Three panel were streamed out, although we saw on twitter that there were a range of other panels happening as well. It’d be nice if any clips or write ups are done on those panels, as they looked interesting.

The first panel was called “Women in the Age of Trump” and largely addressed the current landscape women operate in. The panel moderator was a journalist i watch every week on my fav news programme so it was!! so cool!!!! to see her there and she was great. The three panelists were a journalist from the New York Times, a ‘moderate republican’ named Sophie and an author from New York named Fran, and they were all incredible to listen to. It was so interesting to get the perspective of a woman who is in a field where she reacts to stories while being responsible for getting them out, and to listen to someone who identifies as a republican talk about how she doesn’t believe the party currently reflects anything she believes, and Fran was just absolutely hilarious and callous with great reason, and the three of them were such distinct voices they all offered so much value.

The second panel was focused on the initiative and subsequent effects of the Me Too movement, and one of the panelists was Tracey Spicer who is an Australian journalist i actually saw speak a couple of months ago at my local Writers Festival, and i fell in love with her. She’s amazing!!!! She’s doing a lot of investigative work atm with sexual harassment in media, like a trailblazer of actually starting these conversations here in Australia. And we also got to hear from the literal FOUNDER of the Me Too movement TARANA BURKE like!?!? The woman herself!!?!? She participated via satellite bc she had to head off to the Oscars (iconic woman doing iconic things and she still took time out to talk to us in Aus for our little festival like? amazing) and it was just sO cool to hear her talk about the motivation behind the movement, the hopes she has for the future and the way she hopes the conversation is directed. Sometimes you hear people speak and you can’t help but think to yourself, this person has things that should be said and are worth listening to. She was beautiful to listen to and i really enjoyed that.

The last panel was sort of about the development of feminism itself, from suffragettes to intersectional feminism. There were 4 speakers, each of which focused on a different wave of feminism (first, second, third, now), and they gave great historical context to the movement. It was cool to really go through the different waves and see how they built upon one another. My favourite speaker from this panel was Rebecca Walker, who literally led the entire third wave of feminism like what kinda icon?? Listening to her speak was really inspiring. Anne Summers was another speaker, and she was quite a pivotal figure in Australian feminism too.

It was just wild to listen to all these seminal women talk about their experiences, their influence, and their own historical context. The whole day created such a complete picture of where we’ve come and where we are, and the questions that remain, and it was such a cool thing to be involved with. Everyone who spoke had made an impact and even seeing them interact was so good. I just enjoyed the whole day so much and it was a total fluke i got to go, i didn’t even know it was happening and mum was offered tickets from some competition winner who didn’t want them lol so i’m very pleased and grateful to the guiding hand of fate.

#tp #good day!

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Don Burke - Australia’s Harvey Weinstein

For almost two decades Don Burke was one of the most powerful men in Australia's entertainment industry. His popular gardening program Burke's Backyard was a ratings juggernaut for the Nine Network until it was unceremoniously axed in 2004.

But now a major Fairfax Media/ABC investigation can reveal that behind the scenes those who worked with Burke claim he was a "psychotic bully", a "misogynist" and a "sexual predator" who indecently assaulted, sexually harassed and bullied a striing of female employees.

"He was a vile, vile human being," said Bridget Ninness, a former producer on Burke's Backyard, who later launched legal action against Burke for psychological abuse. "He was lewd and he was crude" and his constant talk of sex was "designed to confront you and to demean you", she said.

Louise Langdon, a former researcher, was subjected to ongoing harassment by Burke which included trying to remove her top, and on another occasion Burke "put his foot into my rear end, with the view to checking the tone of my ... my backside". He then stated that the firmness of her "backside" wasn't "up to scratch".

"I loathed him, he was just a pig. He was lecherous and sinister," said another former researcher who alleges she was indecently assaulted by Burke.

Even David Leckie, the former chief executive of the Nine Network, said he wasn't surprised to receive our call about Burke. "I've been trying to think of Harvey Weinstein-type people [in Australia] and the only one I can ever come up with is Burke. He was a horrible, horrible man," he said.

Unlike Weinstein, Burke is not accused of rape, but the more than 50 people interviewed during this investigation have made serious allegations about Burke's actions.

"Don Burke was a disgrace because of his behaviour internally and externally," said Sam Chisholm, Leckie's predecessor at Nine.

Chisholm, a stalwart of the industry, also described Burke as "terrible grub". Asked if he felt the network had done enough to rein in Burke's behaviour, Chisholm said he didn't know.

Did anyone ever come to him personally about Burke? "Probably they did, but I don't know. It's a long time ago," he said.

"I think the public that have loved him should know the real Don Burke," said another former highly placed Nine executive. "If Harvey Weinstein's been outed, Don needs to be outed."

However, in a written response, Burke angrily denied comparisons to Weinstein. "I loathe the reported behaviour of Mr Weinstein and hope that the legal system deals with him in such a way as to prevent this happening again.

"The bitter irony is that I have had a life-long opposition to sexism and misogyny. Burke's Backyard was a lone bastion of anti-misogyny since its inception in 1987," said Burke.

"He is a high-grade, twisted abuser," said Ms Ninness, who eventually settled out of court with Burke's company over "sustained and systemic psychological abuse" in the workplace.

Burke was "two people", explained a former male crew member. There was the genial gardening guru on camera who was "very, very good at what he did". But off camera the real Burke was described by many of those interviewed as a psychopathic narcissist.

"He was an absolute sexual predator. He was a bully. He was horrible to people in the office. He would often have women in tears. He used to take great delight in it. It was like sport to him," said the former male crew member.

When journalist Tracey Spicer announced that she was investigating the behaviour of powerful Australian men in the media in the wake of America's now infamous sex scandal involving film mogul Harvey Weinstein, she was inundated with reports. One name kept recurring – Don Burke.

Among those who came forward was Ms Langdon, now a psychologist who lives in the United States. In 1987 Ms Langdon, then 27, was working as broadcaster Alan Jones' personal assistant when she landed a job as a weekend producer for Burke's gardening program on radio 2UE. She later became a researcher at Burke's Backyard.

"I was told before I went to meet Don that he was sleazy and to be careful," she said. "I was quite shocked about that because the only Don Burke that I knew was the affable Friday night Burke's Backyard gardener.

"So I thought, 'Oh well, how bad can it be?"'

As it turned out, nothing could have prepared Ms Langdon for what was to come.

"Dealing with Don Burke was an endurance test in terms of his persistence in commentary about anything sexual," she said.

On one occasion, while the pair was working at the radio station, Burke insisted she watch a video. To her horror it was a video showing a woman having sex with a donkey.

Ms Langdon was upset and disgusted. "Don was getting so much pleasure from seeing my reaction to it ... I was just, just ... speechless," she said. "I was really overcome."

Louise Langdon when she worked with Don Burke at 2UE. Photo: Supplied

Burke also subjected Ms Langdon to harassing behaviour – flicking her bra straps and lifting up her shirt to see the colour of her underwear. During a work trip in the Northern Territory he allegedly tried to remove her top.

"I was sitting next to Don on the bus and he decided that it was OK for him to put his hands on my T-shirt and try and pull my bra strap, my bra off and try to somehow remove my clothing. He was trying to take my top off," Ms Langdon said.

During the interview Burke said, "Our nickname for the receptionist is 'the fat c---', so make sure you call her that".

"I think he was testing me to see whether I would be shocked," the woman recalled.

The researcher said Burke had been telling her about a cocktail party he was going to that evening. "'You know what I love about cocktail parties?' he mused. 'It's the name tags. I get to grab women's tits while pretending I can't read their name."'

Burke was already standing uncomfortably close to her during the conversation when "suddenly he made this move and grabbed me, grabbed me hard on the breast. This was not a clumsy, oafish move. It was a calculated action. That is what was scary. It was premeditated. I jumped back. He sneered. 'You've got small tits, no one would want to touch your tits'."

Wendy Dent was employed as an entertainer when she met Burke at the Melbourne Garden Show in 1995. Burke came over, kneeled before the 21-year-old who was wearing a fairy costume, and asked to be granted a wish. In front of the crew and onlookers, Burke opened his eyes and said, "It didn't work. You've still got your clothes on."

Months later, when she had moved to Sydney, Ms Dent took up Burke's offer to audition for the show. Over the phone Burke was flattering, telling Ms Dent she had "real charisma" and great potential. "You definitely have got what it takes for TV," he told her and, what's more, he was "the No. 1 in the business" and he could make it happen.

He said "well, you'll have to audition, but you'll have to be topless".

As a result, she decided she wanted no part of this "sleazy slummy industry".

"These men become dream killers and I lost a career," she said.

One former crew member recalled Burke spotting a group of schoolgirls, aged around 14, holding a puppy.

"He stopped and chatted to them and said, 'Do you want me to show you how to hold the puppy properly?"'

Because it was the legendary Don Burke, one of the girls said, "Yeah, that'd be great."

"He showed them how to nurse it close to their chest, keep it nice and warm," the crew member recalled. "When they walked away he exclaimed: 'Give me three!'

"I said, 'three what?' He boasted that he had stroked her nipple three times while showing her how to hold the puppy," said the crew member.

Despite numerous complaints to Nine executives, both male and female employees were told to soldier on. "There was an institutionalised acceptance of his behaviour and it was actually not just an acceptance, it was an institutionalised enabling," said researcher Louise Langdon.

Leckie confirms that there were complaints made about Burke but suggested he heard them second-hand. "I am not going to mention any specific girls or anything like that," he said.

For one young television writer, the comments Burke made about a young female relative were the last straw. It was the late 1980s and the reporter was 21 when she first went off to interview one of Nine's biggest stars.

Burke continually interrupted the interview with lewd comments such as "I bet you're a demon f--k". The next year she was reluctant to interview him again, "but he was a very, very big star back there and I think that's what people need to take into account".

The second year Burke not only invaded her personal space but made suggestions as to what sexual positions she might enjoy. He also openly stared at and commented about her breasts. It was as though his body language was "I am staring at your boobs and I don't care if you notice, that's what I'm going to do", she said.

Her innocuous question about garden gnomes led to a vulgar comment from Burke about the size of his "cock". Her third encounter with Burke, an interview at his Kenthurst home, was her last.

When Burke said he had bought a horse for a young relative "because I love watching her rub her c--t on its back," the reporter snapped the tape off.

"I was absolutely and utterly repulsed by the man, I felt compromised, I felt violated, I just felt disgusted.

"I took the tape recording to the head of publicity at the time and said I want action. And the next day I received a bunch of flowers and that was the end of it."

There was no apology from Burke and no action was taken against Burke, who told Fairfax Media and the ABC that the story was a "total fabrication".

In 2004 Burke was unceremoniously dumped by the Nine Network after more than 17 years hosting Burke's Backyard.

Over those years countless employees allegedly suffered from Burke's bullying, lewd behaviour and sexual harassment. The network's failure to do anything to rein in Burke's behaviour leaves a bitter taste for many. "Every single person in management ... has known about Don Burke. Every male manager. There is not one that does not know," said a former Nine staffer.

Even the male managers found his incredible ego and narcissistic behaviour impossible to deal with, said the staffer.

"But in terms of the sexual harassment stuff, they didn't really give a damn. He was too popular, he was just too popular a celebrity," said one former senior employee at the network.

Another long-term male producer on Burke's Backyard said that management told staff "to suck it up because it was the No. 1 rating show, the cash cow for Channel Nine".

"Lots of women I know just left. There was a huge staff turnover," he said. "He had the power, the profile and the tacit backing of Channel Nine."

However, the Nine Network refused to accept any responsibility for Burke's behaviour. Questioned about claims that the network turned a blind eye to complaints and failed to take any action to protect their staff from Burke, Nine issued a statement saying: "Burke's Backyard was a production of CTC Productions and they employed and managed all staff."

However, some of Burke's worst behaviour allegedly occurred while the program was produced at Nine. In late 1991 Burke took over the production of his popular gardening program.

Nine also said they could find no records of complaints or payouts to any women in relation to Burke's behaviour.

One woman who did complain paid a very high price.

"He got off on terrorising [female researchers]. Women were his playthings and he loved seeing them shocked by his behaviour and language," said producer Bridget Ninness, who worked at Burke's Backyard for more than seven years from 1990.

Bridget Ninness worked as a producer for Burke's Backyard for more than seven years. Photo: ABC

On her first overseas trip as a reporter, Burke turned to her and said that if everything did not go smoothly, "I'm going to rip your f---ing head off and shit down your throat".

Ms Ninness was so nervous and upset she vomited. When she complained to the head of news and current affairs Peter Meakin, she alleges he said she needed to have "broad shoulders".

Fucking coward - Burke also claimed for the first time that he has Asperger syndrome, though he said it had never been medically diagnosed. He said he has trouble looking people in the eye and responding to body language.

#don burke #Feminism #Weinstein Effect #Burkes Backyard #Hands Off

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