Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

Iconoclast, social commentator, humanist, film producer and journalist and Labor supporter                          

Selected Works:

Bibliography:

The Unspeakable Adams
The Uncensored Adams
Classic Columns
Adams Versus God
Adams Vs. God: The Rematch - 2007
Harrold Cazneaux: The Quiet Observer
Talkback: Emperors of the Air
Retreat from Tolerance
Conversations
A Billion Voices
Adams Ark - 2004
The Inflammable Adams
More Unspeakable Adams
Adams with Added Enzymes
The Big Questions - with Professor Paul Davies
More Big Questions - with Professor Paul Davies
With his partner Patrice Newell, he is the author of several joke books:
The Penguin Book of Australian Jokes - 1994
The Penguin Book of Jokes from Cyberspace - 1995
The Penguin Book of More Australian Jokes - 1996
The Penguin Book of Schoolyard Jokes - 1997
[edit]Filmography

Film:

Kitty and the Bagman
A Personal History of the Australian Surf
Hearts and Minds - 1966 - producer
Jack and Jill: A Postscript - 1970 - producer, writer, director
The Naked Bunyip - 1970 - producer
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie - 1972 - producer
Don's Party - 1976 - producer
The Getting of Wisdom - 1978 - producer
Grendel Grendel Grendel - 1981 - producer
Fighting Back - 1982 - executive producer
Lonely Hearts - 1982 - executive producer
We of the Never Never - 1982 - executive producer
Abra Cadabra - 1983 - producer
Dallas Doll - 1994 as Radio Announcer
Road to Nhill - 1997 as God - voice

Television:

Adams' Australia - part of BBC TV's contribution to Australia's celebrations for its bicentenary.
The Big Questions with Professor Paul Davies
Death and Destiny filmed in Egypt with Paul Cox.
More Big Questions with Professor Paul Davies
Face The Press SBS
Short Cuts ABC
Four Corners
This Day Tonight
Parkinson
7:30 Report
Clive James
Will Be Back After This Break - 7 Network
Two Shot series 1 and 2 - ABC
Short and Sweet - 2 6-part series, ABC
Talking Heads
Compass
Sunday
A Current Affair
Sixty Minutes
Australian Story
Counterpoint with William F. Buckley Jr
CNNNN
The Chaser's War on Everything
Compere, Australian Film Institute Awards Telecast
Co-presenter, the Australian Bicentennial Celebration.                          

Mother 
Father  Reverend Charles Adams

Adams' partner is Patrice Newell. He has four daughters, three to his first wife, and one to Ms Newell.                          

Member of the Order of Australia - AM - 1987
Officer of the Order of Australia  - AO - 1992
Human Rights Medal awarded by the Australian Government's Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission - 2006  - Shared with Father Chris Riley
Australian Humanist of the Year 1987 - Awarded by the Council of Australian Humanist Societies
Raymond Longford Award - the Australian film industry's highest accolade, in 1981, for "Outstanding Services to the Australian Film Industry"
Senior ANZAC Fellow - 1981
Henry Lawson Arts Award - 1987
Living Treasures by the National Trust in 1998
Honorary doctorate, Griffith University
Honorary doctorate, University of Sydney
Honorary doctorate, University of South Australia
Honorary doctorate, Edith Cowan University
Australian Republican of the Year 2005 - Australian Republican Party
Walkley Award for Broadcast Journalism - 2004
United Nations Media Award - 2005
Windgrove Laureate - 2004
Responsibility in Journalism Award 1998 - SCICOP - New York
Australian Centenary Medal - 1 January 2001 -  "For service to Australian society in journalism"
Multiple AFI Awards for various films
A minor planet, discovered by R.H. McNaught at Siding Spring - 1990,  was named "Phillipadams" by the International Astronomical Union - 1997.                          

In 1979 a portrait of Phillip Adams by artist Wes Walters won the Archibald Prize.

Australia's security intelligence organisation kept an extensive ASIO File on Adams, since the age of about sixteen

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