Culture

  • The woman who tried to save Lake Peddar

    Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?
    Directed by Scott Millwood
    Written by Scott Millwood & Mira Robertson
    Distributed by Gill Scrine & Little Films Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?
    By Scott Millwood
    Allen & Unwin, 2008
    256 pages, $26.95 (pb)

  • On the box

    Summer of Love - Looks at the hippy district of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury during the summer of 1967, which had utopian beginnings born of idealistic youths who'd grown up with post-WWII affluence but were now dealing with Vietnam, racism, and

  • Home of the slave, land of the sleaze

    My name is truth; but you may know me as justice, honour or even common sense. @poetry = I don't know your individual names — there are just too many of you to remember. @poetry = You didn't listen when I told you they had decimated the

  • Still sings loudly

    Gone for a Song: A Death in Custody on Palm Island
    By Jeff Waters
    ABC Books, 2008
    246pages, $24.95

  • On the box

    NAISDA Dreaming — Follows a group of young Indigenous dance students as their classroom is moved from urban studios to the bush and red earth of a remote homeland in northeast Arnhem Land. ABC, Sunday, November 16, 1.30pm. Haditha: The Rules of

  • Socialist versus capitalist logic

    Biology Under the Influence: Dialectical Essays on Ecology, Agriculture & Health
    Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins
    Monthly Review Press, 2007
    390 pages, US$22.95
    Available from The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
    By Tim Harford
    Little Brown, 2008
    264 pages, $35

  • When water isn't free

    Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale & Why We Bought It
    By Elizabeth Royte
    Scribe, 2008
    248 pages, $32.95 (pb)

  • On the box

    The President's Guide to Science — The decisions the new US president will make will affect every one of us, from nuclear proliferation to climate change. SBS, Sunday, November 9, 8.35pm. God is Green — Filmmaker Mark Dowd questions religious