Culture

  • On the box

    Black Soldier Blues — Black GIs from the US during WWII were initially turned away from Australia due to the racist White Australia Policy. SBS, Friday, April 25, 12.55am. True Stories — Looks at an exhibition of Aboriginal art from the East

  • The hidden fist that guides the market

    The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, & the truth about Global Corruption
    By John Perkins
    Dutton Books, 2007
    384 pages, $55 (hb)

  • Bastards, the lot of them

    Fridge Magnets are Bastards: An A-Z Rant About Annoying People & Useless Things in the Modern World
    By Mark Dapin
    HarperCollins, 2007, 262 pp, $24.99 (pb)

  • On the box

    Message Stick: Talking Stick — Filmmakers discuss the Indigenous Unit at the Australian Film Commission. ABC, Friday April 4, 6pm. Muddy Waters: Life and Death on the Great Barrier Reef — By 2030, half of the Great Barrier Reef may be gone.

  • Songs in the year 1968

    On March 17, 1968 British actor Vanessa Redgrave, having addressed a huge anti-Vietnam War protest in London’s Trafalgar Square, visited the US embassy in Grosvenor Square to deliver a protest letter. She was accompanied by thousands of protestors chanting “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, we will fight and we will win!”

  • On the box

    Compass: A Small Town Welcome — Explores what happens when a community says "yes" to taking in a family of Sudanese refugees. ABC, Friday, March 21, 7.30pm. Oswald's Ghost — Argues that after John F. Kennedy's assassination, the government