Culture

  • War poet's words still resonate

    On April 28, an Australian soldier died in Afghanistan — the fifth since the US-led invasion in October 2001. He was part of an international invasion force to impose a colonial occupation on the Afghan people.

  • Sydney on the streets

    Sense of a City
    Regard Gallery, 372 Wilson Street, Darlington
    June 13-29, 11am-5pm daily
    Opening June 12, 6pm

  • Utah Phillips, 1935-2008

    @intro =I wouldn’t want to elevate anybody to inappropriately high heights, but for me, Utah Phillips was a legend.

  • Stolen children remembered

    Songlines of a Mutti Mutti Man
    Produced by Ilbijerri Theatre
    Devised by the Edwards Family Collective
    Directed by Kylie Belling
    Arts House, North Melbourne Town Hall
    May 26-31
    Bookings 03 9639 0096

  • Christy Moore: a retrospective on MP3

    Christy Moore is a powerful vocalist, song interpreter, and a passionately political person and performer. To many he may be simply a folk singer, but Moore is a voice for the voiceless.

  • Pirates saving the whales

    The Whale Warriors: On Board a Pirate Ship in the Battle to Save the World’s Largest Mammals
    By Peter Heller
    HarperCollins, 2007
    303pages, $28 (pb)

  • All the wrong conclusions

    Stop-Loss
    Directed by Kimberly Peirce
    Written by Kimberly Peirce & Mark Richard
    With Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum & Abbie Cornish
    In cinemas August 18

  • Counting the cost of the Iraq war

    The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
    By Joseph Stiglitz & Linda Bilmes
    Allen Lane, 2008
    311 pages, $32.95 (pb)