Phillip Frazer
Phillip Frazer | |
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Born | Melbourne, Australia | 1 May 1946
Occupation | writer, editor, publisher |
Nationality | Australian and US |
Alma mater | Monash University |
Period | 1966–current |
Subject | Politics, environment, Rock music, popular culture |
Partner | Kate Veitch |
Children | Jackson Pullman Frazer Zane Pullman Frazer |
Phillip Frazer (born 1 May 1946, in
Biography
Phillip Frazer was born in
In New York, Frazer was an editor at Seven Days, a U.S. alternative newsmagazine, then worked on other U.S. political magazines including The Nation, the anti-nuclear-power organization No-Nukes, and in 1981-82 edited Ralph Nader's Multinational Monitor. In the 1990s he published the liberal Washington Spectator newsletter, and published, edited and wrote the environment newsletter News on Earth. In 1999 he founded The Hightower Lowdown[7] with Jim Hightower. The Lowdown, with around 100,000 paying subscribers, is one of the biggest circulation political publications in the US, notable for its criticism of Bill Clinton's, George W. Bush's, Barack Obama's, and Donald Trump's administrations for being beholden to corporations and a corporatist ideology. Frazer published and co-edited the newsletter until August 2013 when he relocated to Australia where he writes for Griffith Review, the Byron Echo, dailyreview.com.au, and his blog at coorabellridge.com. In 2015 he joined a public debate on the role of the US government—through its intelligence and diplomatic agencies — in the overthrow of the Australian Labor Party government in 1975. He updated his 1984 account of that event, published in Mother Jones magazine, with updates from evidence that emerged after the death of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the publication of the novel "Amnesia" by Peter Carey. The updated text is on his blog coorabellridge.com and will be further expanded in his memoir
Personal life
Frazer has a son and a daughter from a long-term relationship with New York educator and economist, Dr Cydney Pullman. His partner since 2004 is Australian author, Kate Veitch, who has published two novels Listen (2008) re-titled Without a Backward Glance in the US, and Trust (2009), as well as essays published in
References
- ^ a b c d e f Kent, David Martin (September 2002). The place of Go-Set in rock and pop music culture in Australia, 1966 to 1974 (PDF) (MA). Canberra, ACT: University of Canberra. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2015. NOTE: This PDF is 282 pages.
- ISBN 978-1-921332-11-1. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
- ^ a b Kent, David M. (2000). "Go-Set: Life and Death of an Australian Pop Magazine". Retrieved 28 May 2008.
- ^ Turnbull, Jeffrey. "Go-Set Australian Chart Website: What was Go-Set". Retrieved 27 March 2009.
- ^ ISBN 9780908128099. Retrieved 26 March 2009. NOTE: On-line version is a 'snippet view'
- ^ Jackson, Sally (1 May 2008). "Rolling Stone set to gather new boss". The Australian. Retrieved 23 March 2009. [dead link]
- ^ "The Hightower Lowdown". The Alternative Press Center. Retrieved 18 May 2009.