Andrew P Street is an author, journalist, columnist and failed indie rock star. He lives and works in Adelaide, Australia. Following the release of his most recent book, The Long and Winding Way To The Top: Fifty (or so) Songs That Made Australia, he’s drifted back into writing about music, at least for the time being. But a part of his heart belongs to the noble art of getting snarky about politics, as befits his first two books – The Short & Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott and The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull: the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat. Until the mid-2017 cutsapolooza of both staff and contributors at Fairfax, he had a column in the SMH called View from the Street, which was essentially a left-leaning rant about Australian politics written by someone that likes people, likes Australia, and feels like Australia could be doing a hell of a lot better a job at looking after people generally. And you know what? He misses it. And according to the emails and messages he gets, other people miss it too. So he has reinvented it – or at least something sort of like it – as a subscriber-only at-least-twice-weekly newsletter-slash-column for a mere $3 a month. (That’s US$3, just to be clear.) There may well be swears. There will almost certainly be embedded Guided by Voices videos. There may be photos of his young sons being adorable, because by thunder, they are the goddamn best. And if you thought View from the Street was informative and funny and gave you a skerrick of hope for the future of Australian politics, then that’s very much the model.
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