Not gripping, listening
Higher Learning (soundtrack)
Various artists
Epic Records
Reviewed by Sean Moysey
For me the soundtrack to the movie Higher Learning parallels a triple-J play list. It puts rap from performers like Ice Cube and
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By Catherine Gow
In discussions and debates, the politics of privatisation are generally seen to be those of economic rationalism and the introduction of conservative financial values. We have been sucked into arguing against privatisation on
Amnesty report on gay imprisonment
By Deirdre Graham
At least 15 countries around the world are still imprisoning people for being gay, according to the human rights group Amnesty International. Australia, Russia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Iran
By Matthew Thomas
KWAMKI-LAMA, West Papua — Here, in the island of New Guinea, live the Amungme people. Kwamki-lama is a refugee camp not far from the highest mountains between the Himalayas and the Andes. Tembagapura, the biggest and highest
Kennett slashes public housing
By David Mizon
and April Bragg
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By Sujatha Fernandes
Returning to Australia after spending some time in the Indian subcontinent earlier this year, it struck me how much the media attempt to isolate us here from the rest of the world. Closeted away in the suburbs with our
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
The Quiz Show Scandal — For the first time in 30 years,
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Any history of the ideologues of "Belovezhskaya* Russia" would have to be like an account of the 40 years Moses is supposed to have spent wandering in the desert. From the whole of the Old Testament, it seems, these people
In its 1990-91 annual report, the NSW Department of Corrective Services reported its keenness to identify areas "suitable for contracting out". In April 1993, the Junee Correctional Centre, the first private prison in NSW, was opened. It is run by
By Kath Gelber
More than 35,000 women from all over the world are expected to converge on Beijing in September for the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. The UN has claimed the conference will "set [the] women's agenda into next
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