Culture

  • SUNSHINE

    Smoke suffocates charcoaled slabs of continents while
    Uncertain politicians hesitate to make unpopular precedents.
    Now or never.
    Sunshine energy abounds, but rejected as being economically unsound.
    Heat melts the ice as white bears drown in spreading seas but
    Industries cling to destructive, established technologies.
    Now or never.
    Evolution? or extinction?
    @auth poem = Selina O’Brien

  • 3CR goes 'beyond the bars' for NAIDOC Week

    For the sixth year, Melbourne’s community radio station 3CR (855AM) will conduct live radio broadcasts with Indigenous prisoners during NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week. But 3CR Indigenous broadcaster and musician Kutcha Edwards, who has been part of these unique broadcasts since they began in 2002, would rather they weren’t necessary.

  • Torture in the service of empire

    A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror
    By Alfred W. McCoy
    Metropolitan Books, 2006

    290 pages, $38.95 (hb)
    American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib & Beyond
    By Michael Otterman
    Melbourne University Press, 2007
    285 pages, $24.95 (pb)

  • Are we really asleep?

    Silencing Dissent
    Edited by Clive Hamilton & Sarah Maddison
    Allen & Unwin, 2007
    279 pages, $24.95

  • On the box

    As It Happened: Six Days in June (Part 2) — Looks at the 1967 six-day war when Israel occupied the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank. SBS, Friday, June 29, 8.30pm.

  • 1967 referendum in pictures

    The Vote Against Discrimination
    Kirrit Barreet Aboriginal Art and Cultural Centre, 407 Main Road, Ballarat
    Free entry, until August 30

  • Racists are not welcome here

    Riot
    Directed by Leticia Caceres
    Written by Vanessa Bates, David Brown, Stefo Nantsou and Sarah Gava
    Designed by Joshua Mason
    Newcastle Civic Playhouse
    Bookings 02 4929 1977
    Until June 23