Culture

  • Why Nazis still call Australia home

    REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON War Criminals Welcome: Australia, A Sanctuary for War Criminals since 1945By Mark AaronsBlack Inc, 2001649 pp, $34.95 (pb) When justice minister Amanda Vanstone said that the alleged Latvian war criminal Konrads Kalejs was

  • A walk through history

    REVIEW BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK& JO ELLIS Organised by Michael Scott, education and community development manager for the Northern Territory AIDS Council, the recently concluded A Walk Through History exhibition presented a historical insight into the

  • Conveying the refugee experience

    AsylumDirected by Claudia Chidiac54 Joseph St, LidcombeShowing May 31-June 9 REVIEW BY VIV MILEY SYDNEY — From the moment you arrive at the venue — a vacant wallpaper shop in Lidcombe — there is a sense of unease. In the main room is an

  • Airline safety: Cutting corners, costing lives

    REVIEWED BY PHIL SHANNON The Tombstone Imperative: The Truth About Air SafetyBy Andrew WeirSimon & Schuster, 2000372 pp, $14.95 (pb) "Nothing is more important to us than safety", "Safety is our number one priority": all the variations on this

  • Irish music the likes of which you've never heard

    Lemonade & Buns/Tog E Go Bog EKilaGreen Linnet records REVIEW BY BILL NEVINS Kila play Irish music the likes of which you've never heard. Forget your notions about tiddly diddly dee and them boring auld laments and dirges. This lot of young

  • Links: Challenges for Asian Marxists

    Links No. 18128pp, $8.00Available at Resistance Bookshops REVIEW BY ALLEN MYERS The latest issue of Links magazine sets out to provide an indication of the breadth and depth of Marxist political activity and theory in Asia. It contains a

  • Freud slips on stage blood

    Emma's NoseBy Paul J. LivingstonDirected by Neil ArmfieldBelvoir St Theatre, SydneyPlaying until June 24 REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE One response to the doldrums into which Sydney theatre had lapsed was to say: okay, if the more or less well-known

  • More Laborite drivel on globalisation

    Elect the Ambassador!By Duncan KerrPublished by the Pluto Press Australia 2000$32.95 REVIEW BY GEOFF FRANCIS One side-effect of the Keating government's ignominious electoral defeat in March 1996 was that a large number of ALP politicians

  • Josh White: The forgotten singer

    REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON Josh White: Society BluesBy Elijah WaldUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2000336 pp, $69 (hb) Josh White is the forgotten singer of progressive blues and folk in the United States. Common coin has it that his obscurity is

  • Exposing Plan Colombia

    Colombia — Peace at what prices?Written & directed by Anne O'CaseyRunning time 40 minutes, $20Available from CISLAC (PO Box A431 Sydney South NSW 2000; web site: <http://www.cislac.org.au&#062;) REVIEW BY LYNDA HANSEN The latest video

  • East Timor: A nation betrayed

    Analysing Australia's role in reconstructing East Timor, Lansell Taudevin, Jefferson Lee, JON LAND, East Timor, Indonesia, Australia, Timor Gap, militia, Andrew Plunkett, Dateline"> East Timor: A nation betrayed East Timor: Making amends?

  • Thirteen days in Camelot

    Thirteen DaysDirected by Roger DonaldsonWritten by David SelfWith Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood and Steven CulpAt major cinemas REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE For two weeks in 1962 the sights of the world's largest superpower were trained on a small