Linda Burney heads the annual list of the nation’s 10 most culturally powerful people.
that he defined success as knowing that you’re worthy of chasing your goals and dreams, regardless of whether you achieve them.
There was a long discussion about whether the bad boy of tennis, Nick Kyrgios, should be on the list instead of Barty, given his Wimbledon final and the doubles win with Thanasi Kokkinakis that nearly stole the show at the Australian Open. The “Special Ks” attracted a new audience to tennis and a dose of controversy amid complaints about the conduct of some in the crowd, whipped up by Kyrgios. More recently, he made it to the quarter finals of the US Open.
Instead it was another lovable larrikin who made this year’s cultural list, although it was by way of a near afterthought. With 10 names on the board, Rosen made a last-minute pitch for the inclusion of TV entertainer Hamish Blake, who won a second gold Logie for his hosting of the popular reality showHamish Blake: He’s Australia’s most popular television personality and made Lego cool.
The emerging star has crossed over into the mainstream consciousness with advertisements for Menulog and Google, and he performed at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.Douglas, meanwhile, became only the second Indigenous artist to win the 101-year-old Archibald prize. His portrait of fellow artist Karla Dickens, knee-deep in water in her hometown in Lismore, spoke to the devastation of the floods and anger over an inadequate response to the disaster.
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