The Nostradamus Kid

Bob Ellis is an Australian writer, journalist, film-maker and political commentator. He was a student at the University of Sydney at the same time as other notable Australians including Clive James, Germaine Greer, Les Murray, John Bell, Ken Horler, and Mungo McCallum. He lives in Sydney with the... author and screenwriter Anne Brooksbank; they have three children. Ellis was a regular contributor to the Nation Review in the 1970s and subsequently contributed to Fairfax Media newspapers and National Times His writing for the stage includes The Legend of King O'Malley , The James Dossier , Down Under and A Local Man, a 2006 play about Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley . From 1975-85 Ellis and his wife also owned the Stables Theatre in Kings Cross, Sydney, during which time it became home to the Griffin Theatre Company.
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