Culture

  • On the box

    Connecting Diversity: Paradoxes of Multicultural Australia Forum — Personal experiences, community ties and media engagement through the eyes of 16- to 40-year-olds in locations across Australia. SBS, Saturday, April 29, 3pm. No More Tears Sister

  • West Papua

    Autonomy not integrationfreedom not transmigrationindependence not exterminationliving forests not devastationdecency not exploitationfair dealing not expropriationpeaceful lives not annihilationindigenous voice not usurpation.

  • Cultural resistance in occupied Australia

    BlowbackWritten and directed by David PledgerNot Yet It's Difficult ProductionsWith Roslyn Oades, Todd MacDonald, Luciano MartucciThe Studio at the Sydney Opera HouseUntil April 29 PREVIEW BY CLAIRE VINCE Award-winning, internationally acclaimed

  • Life of a revolutionary hero

    Tania — Undercover with Che Guevara in BoliviaBy Ulises Estrada Ocean Press, 2005327 pages, $28.00 REVIEW BY ALEX SALMON After working clandestinely for over two years in La Paz, Bolivia, and then fighting in the ranks of the Bolivian National

  • Playing with the political truth

    Political FictionWritten by Geoffrey SykesDirected by Robina BeardWith Sarah Doyle, Alan Popely, Marc Kay and Karen CobbanOld Fitzroy Theatre, WoolloomoolooUntil May 6 REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH An entertaining new play by Geoffrey Sykes suggests

  • Well built theatre with a sense of rhythm

    We Built This CityWritten and directed by Donna JacksonMelbourne Workers TheatreWith Mark SeymourScienceworks, MelbourneUntil May 6 PREVIEW BY MARGARITA WINDISCH At a time when the Howard government has introduced the most reactionary IR

  • Suez Crisis: the Iraq of 1956

    As it Happened: The Other Side of SuezDirected by Eron SheeanSBS, Saturday March 25, 7.30pm REVIEW BY JENNY LONG A ruthless and bloody imperialist policy, using dodgy intelligence, against an independent country of the Middle East, in order to

  • Scottish writer's tilt at Uhmerka

    You Have to be Careful in the Land of the FreeBy James KelmanPenguin Books, 2004437 pages REVIEW BY ALEX MILLER I've been a fan of James Kelman's books for nearly 20 years, but I have to admit that his last two works of fiction left me feeling

  • On the box

    The Chaser's War On Everything — The Chaser team confront and lampoon key players from the world of politics, business, religion, media and culture. ABC, Friday, March 24, 9.45pm. The Other Side Of Suez — On 26 July 1956, Gamal Abdul Nasser of

  • Oscar winning film exposes South African capitalism

    TsotsiWritten and directed by Gavin HoodWith Presley Chweneyagae, Terry Pheto and Kenneth NkosiScreening in Australia from April 13 REVIEW BY PERCY NGONYAMA When the much talked about South African-produced movie Tsotsi won the coveted Oscar for

  • A writer of courage and conviction

    Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist: The Autobiography of Wilfred BurchettEdited by George Burchett and Nick ShimminUniversity of NSW Press785 pages, $59.95 REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE This weighty volume contains the full, unexpurgated autobiography of

  • Brown launches Recherche Bay book

    Brown launches Recherche Bay book CANBERRA — Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown launched his new book Tasmania's Recherche Bay on February 28. The book launch caps off a successful campaign involving a buy-back of south-east Tasmania's