Bob Ellis. What a pig. And Dorothy Hewett's role… she was my favourite Australian poet.
— Dr Beardface (@GFThommo) June 11, 2018
Pig indeed!
We don’t accept the “those were the times” excuse for the churches, or for the defence forces, so why accept it for the literati, or the so-called Bohemian circles of the ’70s, where free love was so often used by men as a tool of exploitation?
Creativity and sex have long been linked, as has art with the contravention of bourgeois values. Long may it be so
I think that Greg Thompson captures this best: