Opinions included, as a topic, the Australian writer and intellectual who is from what movement?
Opinions (TV series) Opinions was a British talk programme broadcast on Channel 4 television in the 1980s and 1990s. According to "Time" magazine, "Opinions" gave "a public figure 30-minutes of airtime each week to expound on a controversial topic (Germaine Greer on Margaret Thatcher, Edward Teller on nuclear defence)". "A speaker could express his or her own views straight to camera for 30 minutes" "an earnest of Channel 4's faith and mission to bring edgy, alternative fare to the public and to excite reaction".
Padraic McGuinness Padraic Pearse "Paddy" McGuinness AO (27 October 1938 – 26 January 2008) was an Australian journalist, activist, and commentator. He was notable for the evolution over his lifetime of his political beliefs. Beginning his career on the far left, he subsequently worked as a policy assistant to the more moderate Labor parliamentarian Bill Hayden. Later he found fame as a right-wing contrarian and finished his career as the editor of the conservative journal, "Quadrant". He had also worked as a columnist for "The Australian" and "The Sydney Morning Herald" and as the editor of "The Australian Financial Review".