Culture

  • Today's DIY workshop: How to get deported

    I was thinking that I wasn't as up as I should be with core Australian values. Here we have folk in the know like that Costello bloke going on about them , when I myself are a bit in the dark in that department. How so? I guess I'm taking a lot

  • Change in a volatile world

    Queenscliff artist Peter Forward's paintings explore the outcomes of rapid change in a volatile world. "Wars are being undertaken on our behalf for spurious reasons", Forward explained in a statement about his work.

  • On the box

    On the box — Orthodykes, Message Stick: Wayne Atkinson, Cutting Edge: Beslan, Grass, The Cirlce and The Mary G Show.

  • Voluntary euthanasia and the hypocrisy of the religious right

    "May I wish Mr Kevin Andrews a long and excruciatingly painful life" was the response of a letter writer to the Sydney Morning Herald at the federal parliament's passing of a bill by then Liberal Party backbencher Kevin Andrews, which overturned the Northern Territory's voluntary euthanasia legislation in 1997.

  • Showcase of Tibetan films

    The 2005 Tibetan Film FestivalChauvel Cinemas, Paddington Town Hall, SydneyAugust 26-27Phone (02) 9361 5398 to book tickets. The 2005 Tibetan Film Festival will provide a wider perspective of the Tibetan situation than has ever been seen before in

  • Venezuela - a real social revolution

    The Venezuelan Revolution: a Marxist PerspectiveBy Alan WoodsWellred Publications, 2005178 pages REVIEW BY DAVE RABY Although many Marxists and progressive activists in general are still reluctant to recognise it, a real social revolution is

  • About traditions

    Let's give abig hand toallthose brave politicianswhosweated it outonthe parliamentary benchesduringour recent involvement inthe iraq warspare a thought please forour political heroes in Canberraforwinter here can be hellandit's no picnic

  • Sceptics' mumbo jumbo manual

    How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the WorldBy Francis WheenHarper Perennial338 pages REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY When oft upon my couch I lie with my head in a book, I sometimes wallow in my choice of pastimes. While growing up it was seen as so much more

  • On the box

    Transplant Tourism — Wealthy Westerners who don't want to wait for an organ donor are travelling to Third World countries to find the organ they need from desperately poor people. SBS, Thursday, August 25, 2pm. Young, Muslim and French — Looks

  • Iraq liberated? Turtles might fly

    Turtles might fly ... Turtles Can FlyWritten and directed by Bahman GhobadiIran-Iraq co-productionPalace Cinemas from August 18 REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH Turtles Can Fly is a precious film. Its anti-war message about the enduring suffering of