Phillip Adams
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International Astronomical Union named a minor planet orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter the Phillipadams in 1997.
A painting of Adams won the Archibald Prize in 1979.
Received a Walkley Award for journalism in 2005.
A Pater Award for excellence in radio.
A Television Logie.
The Celebration of Ability Media Award in 2000.
United Nations Media Award in 2005.
In October 1996, when a poll of 200 prominent academics was conducted to identify Australia’s Most Influential Public Intellectuals, Adams was in the top five with Robert Manne, Henry Reynolds, Tim Flannery and Noel Pearson.
Republican of the Year in 2005.
Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia.
Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Appointments: Adams has served as:
Chairman of the Australian Film Commission.
Chairman of Film Australia.
Chairman of the Australian Film Institute.
Chairman of the Australia Council International Committee.
Chairman of the Australia Council Research Committee.
Chairman of the National Australia Day Council.
Foundation Chairman of the Commission for the Future.
Foundation Chairman of the Film, Television and Radio Board.
Foundation member, Film Victoria.
Foundation Chairman of the Independent Feature Film Producers’ Association President of the Victorian Council of the Arts.
President of the Australasian Academy of Broadcast Arts and Science.
Chief Executive Officer of Southern Cross Film Productions Pty Ltd.
Chief Executive Officer of Double Head Productions Ltd.
Chief Executive Officer of Longford Productions Pty Ltd.
Chief Executive Officer of Adams Packer Films Pty Ltd.
Foundation director of the Australian Caption Centre.
Foundation director of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation.
Representative, arts and film industries, Taxation Summit, 1982.
Member of the Children’s Television Committee for the Nine Network.
Member of the Australian Governments Committee on the Centenary of Federation Member of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee.
Member of Amnesty International.
Member of the National Museum of Australia Board.
Member of the Museum of Victoria Board.
Member the National Council of the Australian Opera.
Member of the Sydney Opera Company Board.
Member of the Greenpeace Australia Board.
Advisor, Victorian Sesquicentenary Committee.
Board member, Interim Council for a National Film and Television School.
Member of the CARE Australia Board.
Member of the National Federation Centenary Committee.
Member of the Australian Labor Party Arts Committee.
Member of the Federal Government Committee on the French Bicentennial.
Member of the Landmark Committee of the Victorian Government.
Member of the Joan Sutherland Sculpture Committee of the City of Sydney.
Member of the Queen’s Birthday Reference Committee, Government of NSW.
Member of Advisory Committee, Institute of Multicultural Affairs.
Member of the Council of Victoria.
Examiner, Swinburne Film School.
Convenor, Friends of The Age.
Member of Wallenberg Committee Board.
Life Member, National Trust of Australia (NSW).
Foundation Chairman, Ideas at the Powerhouse.
Foundation board member, Don Dunstan Foundation, University of Adelaide.
Member, Australian International Documentary Conference.
Currently, Adams is:
Chairman, Advisory Board, Rights Australia Inc.
Chairman, Advisory Board, Centre for the Mind, University of Sydney and Australian National University.
Member, Advisory Board, Architects Without Frontiers.
Member, Convocation of the Australian Film, Radio and Television School.
Member, Australian International Documentary Conference.
Member of the Board, Anti-Football League.
Editorial Advisory Board, the Council for Secular Humanism, New York.
National Council member of the Adelaide Festival.
Advisory Board, Adelaide Festival of Ideas.
Board member and Australian representative, Index on Censorship, UK.
Board member, Families in Distress Foundation.
Foundation member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia.
Member, Australian International Organising Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles.
Member, Council for Media Integrity, New York.
Board member, Festival of Ideas, Adelaide.
Board member, Festival of Ideas, Brisbane.
Board member, Ausflag.
Board member, National Heritage Committee.
Board member, Montsalvat Artists’ Colony.
Ambassador, Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Ambassador, Australian Capital Territory.
Patron, Manning Clark House.
Patron, Australian Humanists.
Patron, Australian Skeptics.
Patron of Defense for Children International.
Patron, the Trade Union Education Foundation.
Patron, Freedom From Violence Australian Inc.
Patron, the Humanist Society.
Patron, the Dorothea Mackellar Society.
Patron, the Strzelecki Society.
Patron, Youth Challenge Australia.
Patron, Jannah, SIEV-X Memorial.
Vice-Patron, United Nations Association.
Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts.
Co-Founder, The Voltaire Society.
Feature Films:
Jack & Jill: A Postscript (with Brian Robinson). Winner Best Film, AFI Awards, winner Grand Prix, Adelaide-Auckland Film Festival.
The Naked Bunyip (with John Murray).
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (with Bruce Beresford and Barry Humphries).
Don’s Party (with Bruce Beresford). Winner six AFI Awards.
The Getting of Wisdom (with Bruce Beresford).
We of the Never Never (with Igor Auzins). Winner of five AFI Awards.
Abra Cadabra (with Alex Stitt).
Grendel Grendel Grendel (with Alex Stitt).
Lonely Hearts (with Paul Cox). Winner, Best Film, AFI Awards.
Fighting Back (with Michael Caulfield). Winner of AFI Award.
Kitty and the Bagman (with Donald Crombie). AFI Award winner.
A Personal History of the Australian Surf (with Michael Blakemore), Peter Sellers
Award, UK. Most Popular Film at Melbourne Film Festival, 1982.
Adams played the role of God in the feature film The Road to Nhill.
Documentaries and Television:
Hearts and Minds (with Bruce Petty): The first Australian documentary on then Vietnam War.
Comedy sketches for The Mavis Brampton Show .
Death and Destiny (with Paul Cox): A study of Macquarie University’s excavations near the Step Pyramid at Sakkara.
Be Back After This Break: a Seven Network series on the history of Australian advertising.
The Big Questions (with Professor Paul Davies): An SBS series on quantum mechanics, cosmology and theology. More Big Questions: A sequel
Two-Shot, Series 1 and 2: Adams interviewed Paul Keating, Professor Allan Snyder, Richard Butler, etc.
Short and Sweet: Two six-part ABC series of short films.
Adams’ Australia (with Ben Lewin): The BBC’s contribution to the Bicentennial Celebrations
See It My Way, ABC: Personal view of our attitude to death.
Face The Nation, SBS, including the first interview with three surviving prime ministers, Bob Hawke, Gough Whitlam
and Malcolm Fraser.
Australian Bicentennial telecast: Adams was a co-presenter of Peter Faiman’s largest live television program ever undertaken, with 100 locations across Australia and the world.
Compere, Australian Film Institute Awards telecasts.
Compere, Australian Tourism Awards.
Adams was featured in the ABC series The Peripatetic Philosophers.
Adams played Pope Innocent X1 in the world premiere of Accademia Arcadia Cantatas at the Arcadian Academy: A Dialogue of Love and Power in the Melbourne Festival, 2004.
Journalism:
Adams is the longest-published columnist in The Australian. Previously his columns have been published in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Brisbane Courier Mail, the Adelaide Advertiser and the Launceston Examiner. His columns have also appeared in The National Times, Nation and Nation Review, The New York Times, London Financial Times, Index on Censorship (London), The Sunday Times (London) and have been broadcast by the BBC. Two of his columns appeared in The Columnists (Penguin, UK).
Speechwriting:
Phillip Adams has written speeches for The Queen, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, President Reagan, President Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl, Deng Xiaoping and the Prime Minister of Japan, Australian prime ministers and premiers. He has worked on Labor Party state and federal election campaigns.
Books:
Adams has written more than 20 books, including:
Adams With Added Enzymes (Sun Books).
The Unspeakable Adams (Thomas Nelson Australia).
More Unspeakable Adams (Nelson).
The Uncensored Adams (Nelson).
Adams Versus God (Nelson).
Classic Columns (ABC Books).
Harold Cazneaux: the Quiet Observer (with H. Ennis), National Library of Australia.
The Big Questions (with Professor Paul Davies), Penguin.
More Big Questions (with Professor Paul Davies), Penguin.
A Billion Voices — impressions of Indian life and politics (ABC Books).
Kookaburra (edited by Adams) — a journal of political satire (Penguin).
The Retreat from Tolerance (edited by Adams) — essays on the Pauline Hanson phenomenon.
Talkback (with Lee Burton), Allen & Unwin.
Mass Media Review (edited by Adams).
Collected Documents — The Art of Place.
Adams’ Ark (Viking Penguin).
Adams was a contributor to:
Two Nations (on the Hanson phenomenon).
The Last Rite, the Penguin Book of Death (on voluntary euthanasia).
Speaking Their Mind — Portraits of Australia’s Public Intellectuals (Robert Dessaix).
Life With Gough (Barry Cohen).
As The Twig Is Bent (Terry Lane).
The Best Australian Humorous Writing 2008 (Melbourne University Publishing).
The Best Australian Politician Writing 2008 (MUP).
Well May We Say — The Speeches That Made Australia (Black Inc).
His collections of jokes
(with Patrice Newell) include:
The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes (1994).
The Penguin Book of More Australian Jokes.
The Penguin Book of Jokes from Cyberspace (1995).
What a Joke! (with Terry Denton), 1998.
The Penguin Book of Schoolyard Jokes.
The Penguin Book of World Jokes (2004).
Audio Books:
New Trends in Mass Media (The Age).
The Big Questions (with Paul Davies).
More Big Questions (with Paul Davies).
The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes.
A Billion Voices: The Elements of India.
Conversations with Phillip Adams, Vols 1, 11 and 111.
Adams’ Ark.
The Ideas Book (University of Queensland Press).
Two Nations Bookman.
Public Speaking:
Adams delivered the inaugural Freilich Lecture (ANU).
He has also delivered:
The Whitlam Lecture (Sydney, 1997).
The Oscar Mendelssohn Memorial Lecture (Monash University).
The Inaugural Charles Sturt Oration.
The Inaugural Harry Sorensen Business Ethics Lecture (Monash University).
The Queen’s Pictures Lecture (National Gallery, Canberra).
The Walter Burley Griffin Lecture (ANU).
The Angus McMillan Memorial Lecture (Bairnsdale).
The National Press Club.
The Press Club, Melbourne.
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong.
Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Adelaide Writers’ Festival.
Brisbane Writers’ Week.
Byron Bay Writers’ Festival.
The Global Cultural Diversity Conference,
The Australian Institute of Jewish Affairs Conference.
The Museums Australia Conference.
The Queen’s Trust Conference.
The Immigration Outlook Conference.
The Perth Press Club.
The Melbourne Press Club.
The Adelaide Press Club.
The Government Communications Conference.
The American Newspaper Publishers’ Association Conference.
The Australasian Academy of Forensic Sciences.
The Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
The International Conference of Psychiatry.
The International Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Conference, New York.
The University of Potsdam, Germany.
The Australian Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong.
The Armenian Genocide Commemorative Lecture.
The Louvre Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Art (Australian National Gallery).
The Picasso Exhibition (Art Gallery of NSW).
Cultural Delegations:
Adams has led delegations to China and Russia and as Chairman of the Australian Film Commission led the Australian contingent to the Cannes film festival for many years. He presented a series of lectures on Australian politics in Berlin at the Foreign Affairs Department’s request.
Business:
Adams was a partner in Monahan Dayman Adams, which grew from a small Melbourne office into the largest Australian-owned advertising agency with an annual turnover approaching $1 billion and offices throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia, London and New York. Adams’ best-known campaign (in collaboration with Alex Stitt) was “Life. Be In It.” He also devised the “Care for Kids” campaign for the International Year of the Child and the “Break Down the Barriers” campaign during the International Year of the Disabled Person. It won the Gold Lion at the Cannes film festival. Adams also developed campaigns attacking racism, urging Aboriginal employment, and on breast cancer, cervical cancer and skin cancer — “Slip Slap Slop.”
Miscellaneous:
A painting of Phillip by Wes Walters won the Archibald Prize in 1979. A portrait of Adams by Larissa Mackay was a finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Prize in 2008. A portrait of Adams by Peter Smeeth won the People’s Choice in the Salon des Refuses in 2008.
Collection:
Adams has Australia’s largest private collection of antiquities, more than 4,000 items, including Egyptian, Hellenistic, Roman, Etruscan, Cypriot, Luristan, Sumerian, Hittite, Persian, Minoan, Anatolian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Chinese pieces and others from African, Inuit, New Guinea and Trobriand Island cultures.
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