Culture

  • On the box

    Hard Choices: Unchain My Heart — The story of a Burmese refugee who has voluntarily shackled himself in chains to draw attention to the plight of his suffering homeland. SBS, Friday, August 3, 3.30pm.

  • Politics of Justice

    Yesterday Sergeant Chris Hurley
    Walked smooth hair and broad-shouldered from the courtroom.
    His stride was confident but his nostrils
    flared ever-so-slightly
    his face flushed the crude red of triumph
    by the all-white jury.
    But Mulrunji is dead.
    Left to bleed his severed vessels
    into his own body until
    his life ebbed away
    in the red flow.
    Did you hear the low sobs of past thousands
    echo in the island watchhouse?
    And are you watching, Australia?
    (What a clever trick)
    Because we all got off
    when Hurley got off.
    @auth poem = by Laura Ealing

  • On the box

    As It Happened: Cuba — An African Odyssey — From Che Guevara's military campaign to avenge Lumumba in the Congo, up to the fall of apartheid in South Africa, 300,000 Cubans fought alongside African revolutionaries. SBS, Friday, July 27,

  • We are what we eat

    Joanna Blythman exposes the hype about the recent British food revolution as a myth.