Culture

  • On the box

    Science: A War on Science — The debate over "intelligent design" versus evolution, and a court case which puts it to the legal test. SBS, Sunday, January 28, 8.30pm. Drug Trials: The Dark Side — Poor and illiterate patients in India are being

  • Mark Seymour: 'We must protect our democracy'

    One-time Hunter & Collector, and now solo performer, MARK SEYMOUR has often taken part in political rallies, as well as performed on the stages of Australia’s premier rock venues. At times his music and ideological stance have seemed as one. Recently he spoke to Green Left Weekly’s MIRIAM GRAVINO.

  • On the Box

    Fearless: Stories from Asian Women — In India, where the caste system has created apartheid-like discrimination, child labour is common and women have few rights. SBS, Friday, January 19, 3.30am. Global Warming: Bush's Climate of Fear — In

  • Minister of Funk James Brown dies at 73

    James Brown treated rhythm like a mad scientist with test tubes full of chemicals — always reinventing, trying new combinations and creating more powerful potions. Brown — the Godfather of Soul, the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, Mr Dynamite, Soul Brother No. 1, and the Minister of Super Heavy Funk — died December 25 of congestive heart failure at the age of 73.

  • 3CR: Help to keep an alternative voice on the air

    Last year marked the 30th anniversary of 3CR, a community radio station established to provide a voice for those denied access to the mass media, particularly the working class, women, Indigenous people and the many community groups discriminated against in and by the mass media. Unlike almost all other media organisations in Australia, 3CR is genuinely owned by the community — by the groups and individuals who broadcast, and by the people who listen to the station.

  • Reflecting on history

    Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History
    By Paul Blackledge
    Manchester University Press, 2006
    218pages, $4.95
    “The History Question: Who Owns the Past?”
    By Inga Clendinnen
    Quarterly Essay, issue 23, 2006
    72pages, $14.95

  • Mao's rise

    Mao: A Life
    SBS TV
    Parts 1 & 2 of 4, Friday December 8 and 15, 8.30pm

  • Soldier's Joy

    (For Specialist Mike Moriarty, Rahim Al Haj and all the Joes and Jills and all the Hadjis. This poem is inspired in part by the documentary film The War Tapes, which everyone should see.)