Culture

  • Play puts Woomera under the spotlight

    SYDNEY — The immigration detention centre at Woomera in South Australia has been at the centre of the public controversy surrounding the mandatory detention of asylum seekers since it was opened in 1999. The brutal conditions

  • Speeches of a good Samaritan

    Questions from the Asylum: An Analysis of Australia's Asylum and Detention Issues By Susan Connelly Otford Press, 2002 66 pages, $5.95 Send cheque or money order to PO Box 299 St Marys NSW 1790. REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN

  • The FBI's secret war against Albert Einstein

    The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous ScientistBy Fred JeromeSt. Martin's Press, 2002358 pages, $40 (hb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON When "communism" was the official flavour-of-the-month threat in the US,

  • Will ARTV be censored?

    SYDNEY &#151 Every Sunday night, Channel 31's Actively Radical TV (ARTV) program includes The Palestine Report, a segment on the conflict in Palestine. The report presents viewers with a point of view that the mainstream media

  • Pilger on Palestine: A people 'abandoned by the world'

    Palestine is Still the IssueDocumentary by John PilgerThursday, October 8, 8.30pmSBS REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue, is a moving and powerful indictment of Israel's illegal occupation of the West

  • Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction and socialism

    KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is one of the most highly awarded science fiction (SF) writers, winning the Nebula and Hugo awards for his Mars series (Green Mars, Red Mars, Blue Mars and The Martians), among a dozen other novels and short story

  • Priests against the empire

    Prophets Without Honor: A Requiem for Moral Patriotism By William Strabala and Michael PalecekAlgora Publishing, 2002380 pages, US$23.95Available at <http://Amazon.com&#062; Prophets Without Honor tells the story of a group of priests and the

  • A Sudden Cry of Pain

    Every day the sun risesBut we are in a positionThat can't rise upCan you imagine what it is? I like to see the worldBut I know that I can'tCan you tell me about the world?Do the people treat you well enough? Every bird has feathersSo they fly

  • Radio doco on 1973 strike

    ABC Radio National's Hindsight program will present a 60-minute documentary on the 1973 strike by workers at Ford's Broadmeadows plant, near Melbourne. In the program, former metalworkers' union leader Laurie

  • The Great Pretender

    Oh yes! I'm the Great Pretender!Pretending I'm for human rights.My badge, you see, is from Amnesty,But my heart says, "Australia is for the whites!" Oh yes! I'm the Great Pretender!I claim to protect girls and boys,But look that's not my style: I