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Phillip Adams was recently elected one of Australia’s 100 “Living National Treasures” in a poll conducted by The National Trust, For almost 40 years his columns in major newspapers and magazines have provoked discussion and outrage - his books including Adams versus God, The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes, Retreat from Tolerance and Talkback and A Billion Voices have sold over a million copies. His most recent book is “Adams Ark”, published in 2004. He has written and presented many TV series, including “The Big Questions” with Professor Paul Davies.
As a consultant to many prime ministers, premiers and federal treasurers, he played a key role in the establishment of the Australia Council, the Australian Film Development Corporation, the Australian Film Commission, the South Australia Film Corporation (which became a model for similar organisations in most states) and the Australian Film Finance Corporation. His own films include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Don’s Party, The Getting of Wisdom, Lonely Hearts and We of the Never Never.
He’s been Chairman of the Australian Film Institute, the Australian Film Commission, the Commission for the Future, the Film Radio and Television Board, Film Australia and the National Australian Day Council. He is Chairman of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in Canberra. His scores of board memberships have included Greenpeace, CARE Australia, The National Museum of Australia, Adelaide’s Festival of Ideas and Brisbane’s Ideas at the Powerhouse.
His newspaper columns have appeared in The Australian, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, Nation Review, The National Times – as well as the London Times and the New York Times. He is also regarded as “Australia’s best broadcaster” in the special issue of ‘The Reader’ created by the editors of both The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
As a broadcaster, he has interviewed over 12,000 of the world’s most prominent politicians, philosophers, economists, scientists, theologians and scholars. His radio program, “Late Night Live” is broadcast twice a day over the 200-station network of Radio National - and around the world on Radio Australia and the Internet.
Awards include two Orders of Australia, Honorary Doctorates from Griffith University, Edith Cowan University, the University of South Australia and the University of Sydney. He was Humanist of the Year, the “Responsibility in Journalism Award” from New York University and the Longford Award, the highest honour bestowed by the Australian film industry.
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