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Thursday 29 March
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Irritating Language I want to see banned. Immediately.
Join Michael Shmith, Age Senior Writer and Opera Critic, for hi-jinks and hilarity, as he runs through his A-Z hitlist of terrible words and phrases he never again wishes to see in print or hear in news broadcasts.
Featuring
Michael Shmith
Michael Shmith has worked in daily journalism for most of his professional life. He is a senior writer for The Age, Melbourne, and also the paper’s opera critic.
He is a former arts editor and travel editor of The Age. Although he specialises in arts journalism, he writes on many other subjects – mostly for The Age’s opinion and books pages. He has co-edited reference books on opera, as well as writing a biography of Gustav Mahler for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London. In 2000, he presented a nine-part series on opera, Why Sing?, for ABC Television.