Culture

  • Papalote goes bush again

    Papalote will be touring NSW this month. Musica Viva’s CountryWide has offered this renowned group shows in Cobar, Brewerina, Lighting Ridge and Warren.

  • Papalote goes bush again

    Papalote will be touring NSW this month. Musica Viva’s CountryWide has offered this renowned group shows in Cobar, Brewerina, Lighting Ridge and Warren.

  • Australia and the sunset on coal

    “Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the end of the Resources Boom”
    By Guy Pearse
    Quarterly Essay, Issue 33
    Black Inc, 2009
    129 pages, $16.95

  • On the box

    Spinifex Man — The life of the Indigenous theatre and film actor, Trevor Jamieson. ABC, Friday, May 1, 6pm. Guests of the Ayatollah — In the Iran hostage crisis, the military was authorised to rescue the hostages by force. The mission failed

  • Let's hope this gift keeps on giving

    Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
    By Eduardo Galeano
    25th anniversary edition, Monthly Review Press, 1997
    317 pages, $40 (pb)
    Available from

  • Communist Manifesto travels to Venezuela

    Hand in hand with transformations headed by President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela is experiencing a surge in demand for socialist classics, which compels editorial houses to reprint works like the Communist Manifesto.

  • Installation criticising Israel's occupation and Veolia causes stir

    Visual artist Van Thanh Rudd created a stir in Melbourne with his installation “Economy of Movement — A Piece of Palestine”. Rudd was invited to exhibit at an art space called the Platform, in the group show Resisting Subversion of Subversive Resistance. The Platform is situated directly beneath Melbourne’s Flinders Street train station.