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Chris Lilley

June 2024

  • Sunset in Nuku'alofa, the capital city of Tonga

    For years the best-known Tongan on Australian TV was played by Chris Lilley. At last Pasifika artists are being recognised

    Winnie Dunn
    It’s an honour to be the first Tongan writer to publish a novel in Australia – but why did it take so long for our mob to get here?

October 2023

  • Amanda Meade

    The weekly beast
    Daily Mail misconstrues Ray Martin’s contempt for ‘nonsensical’ no slogan and Ampol fuels Walkley scholarship

    Amanda Meade
    Veteran TV presenter makes clear he wasn’t condemning no voters in voice speech, while Ampol presence causes embarrassment at journalism awards

June 2020

  • Jeff Sparrow

    Culture warriors obsessed with statues ignore Rio Tinto’s vandalism of Indigenous heritage

    Jeff Sparrow
  • Chris Lilley has been criticised for racial stereotyping and “brown face” characters such as African-American rapper S.mouse

    Cancellation or censorship: should Chris Lilley's work and Australia's statues be gone with the wind?

  • Chris Lilley portrayed multiple characters in Summer Heights High, which has now been pulled from Netflix Australia, including teacher Mr G and Tongan schoolboy Jonah Takalua.

    The Pacific project
    Chris Lilley's Jonah is not from Tonga, I am. It's time to dismantle racist brownface stereotypes

    Seini F Taumoepeau
  • Chris Lilley as Jonah from Tonga in Summer Heights High

    Four Chris Lilley shows removed from Netflix Australia library

April 2019

  • Chris Lilley in Lunatics.

    Lunatics is nasty and grotesque. Chris Lilley's career is shot

  • Joyce Jefferies, an ageing former porn star who loves to collect things, in Chris Lilley’s Lunatics

    Chris Lilley's Lunatics review: unfunny, boring and utterly unrelenting

  • Lunatics

    TV review
    Lunatics review – thankfully no blackface, but still painfully unfunny

  • Amanda Meade

    The weekly beast
    Sky News at war as Paul Murray and Kieran Gilbert trade blows: 'Let's get into it'

    Amanda Meade

April 2018

  • Brigid Delaney

    The generation gap is back – but not as we know it

    Brigid Delaney
    There is an ideological conflict brewing between ‘woke’ millennials and an older generation, a conflict where neither understands the other

March 2018

  • S.mouse

    Comedy or cruelty: does Chris Lilley have a place in 2018?

    David Renshaw
    Can the divisive nature of Lilley’s humour exist in a TV landscape where diversity is more important than ever?
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