Culture

  • 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

  • The man from snowjob river

    There are surges at the station For word has got around That someone thinks power's fit to privatise Pyremmia Eyemmia and his mate "Too Mucha" Costa They're in this plot up to their scheming eyes @poetry = Pyremmia Eyemmia? Yes — the man

  • The human cost of occupation

    Live From Occupied Palestine
    Exhibition by Kim Bullimore
    CLASS bookshop
    360 Victoria St, North Melbourne
    Info 0430 397 074

  • On the box

    The Siege — Details how Nestor Cerpa and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement took over 400 people hostage at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru in 1996. SBS, Friday, March 14, 8.30pm. Science: Total Isolation — A weapon of

  • Israel's real 'peace' plan

    Between the Lines — Readings on Israel, the Palestinians, and the US ‘War on Terror’
    Edited by Tikva Honig-Parnass & Toufi Haddad
    Haymarket Books, 2007
    406 pages, US$17

  • The art of struggle

    A History Lesson: Art from the Howard Era
    Ray Hughes Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
    Images at
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    Until March 15

  • The Battle of Vinegar Hill — a short history

    The Battle of Vinegar Hill is the name given to the clash between convicts and soldiers on Monday March 5 1804 following on from the Castle Hill uprising the night before. It was the first battle between Europeans on Australian soil.