Stefan Dennis: How One Aussie Soap Villain Became the Last Export the World Still Trusts
Neighbours, Nukes, and the Neoliberal Nostalgia of Stefan Dennis By Our Foreign Desk, somewhere over the Pacific Sometime around 1985, while Reagan and Gorbachev were trading pleasantries about mutually assured destruction, an Australian soap opera quietly exported suburban melodrama to 60-odd countries and accidentally turned a Melbourne cul-de-sac into a soft-power superweapon. At the centre…