Dan Golding

@dangolding.com

Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm). dangolding.com

"The Guardian is aware that at least nine of the musicians who played in the Sydney concerts are now helping the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) with a workplace inquiry about the events surrounding the performance."

The pianist from the audience at La La Land in Concert was a global feelgood story – but all was not what it seemed

Two orchestra members from the Sydney performance allege tensions behind the scenes were the cause of pianist failing to appear after intermission

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I honestly don't think I've ever been to a film screening in my life like last night's viewing of Disclosure Day. Open laughter and derision throughout from some in a packed audience - met with enthusiastic applause at the end credits from others. Wild. Still thinking about it.

My discovery this morning: Adobe made a submission to the Australian National Cultural Policy, calling for legal reforms that would see works "created using AI tools [being] eligible for copyright when there is meaningful human expression and creative judgment" (among other things)

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Really hated seeing these “most wanted” cards in the Mandalorian movie, which are clearly inspired by those used by the USA in the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Rare to see Star Wars - even under Disney - completely miss the vibe of its political metaphor.

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I think this is actually still mainstream opinion, but tv technology has changed and widescreens are the norm, so now it's 4:3 content that's commonly converted to widescreen formats. See the controversy over The Simpsons ratio on Disney+ for a good illustration. People don't want bars on screens.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This was the mainstream, normie opinion about movie aspect ratios in the 90's! People would get actively mad if it wasn't in pan-and-scan! Blockbuster would *exclusively* carry pan-and-scan versions of movies well into the DVD era. Madness bsky.app/profile/emit...

Aside from any of the obvious points, the Jobs Ready Graduates Scheme that ushered this into being and continues to be is a great illustration of the Ratchet Effect in politics, where the establishment right ruins something, and the establishment left does nothing to fix it when they gain power

Title: "The Ratchet Effect: How you are being duped by the fake two-party system." An image of a red cog being turned in one direction by republicans who "turn everything to the right", with a blue ratchet "Democrats block movement back to the left"
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 3mo ago

One in four humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans because of Morrison government changes to university fees, newly public Treasury modelling reveals. Reporting by Krishani Dhanji. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I feel unhinged and unmoored by the news at the best of times, but why every single politician in the world who isn't a member of his party (and even then, ugh) isn't out demanding his removal right away is just absolutely astonishing

I understand this is a big jump in context, and numbers like this take a while to turn around, but is it not still sort of staggering that 85% of buyers in March 2026 are looking at petrol prices and going hey yeah hook me right up fellas

Screenshot of a Guardian Australia live blog detailing that 14.6% of new car sales in Australia in March 2026 were electric cars.

My “please do not panic about petrol shortages” national address has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my national address