Culture

  • A Vietnamese Revolutionary Talks To Jesus

    A Vietnamese Revolutionary Talks To Jesus You say you were six hours on the Cross?— That's true, six hours of sun and dust and sweat.I am still young, and I have been a scoreOf years in battle. I was born upon a battlefield. You say your mother

  • How Can It Be?

    How Can It Be? How can it be that we have come to this?Australia must be a land of foolish masochistsOnce you might overlook, but someone tell me now,Did we really put up our hands for more of Johnny Howard? Civilisation will hold us in

  • 1968:Year of hope

    Year of hope 1968: Marching in the StreetsBy Tariq Ali and Susan WatkinsBloomsbury Press, 1998. 224 pp., $49.95 Review by John Nebauer "'Order reigns in Warsaw!' 'Order reigns in Paris!' 'Order reigns in Berlin!' This is how the reports of the

  • Dorney misses the forest and the trees

    Dorney misses the forest and the trees The Sandline Affair: Politics and mercenaries and the Bougainville crisisBy Sean DorneySydney: ABC Books, 1998352 pp., $24.95 Review by Max Watts Since the Bougainville "crisis", (I'd call it the

  • Spot the armed and dangerous fundamentalists

    Waco: The Rules of EngagementDirected by William GazeckiFifth Estate Productions Review by Arun Pradhan "Do I really want to spend the next two hours watching a film about mad, Christian fundamentalist Americans?" was the question going through my

  • The Greek Civil War: from liberation to catastrophe

    Review by James Vassilopoulos As it happened: the Greek Civil War SBS TVFriday, October 16, 8pm (7.30pm SA) A far greater tragedy than the ancient Greek playwrights Euripides, Aeschylus or Sophocles could ever have written befell the Greek people

  • A head start that went to waste?

    A head start that went to waste? Temper Democratic: How Exceptional is Australia?By Humphrey McqueenWakefield Press, 1998. 261 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Humphrey McQueen has been poking his Marxist nose into Australian society for

  • Privatisation

    Privatisation Come gather round children and sit on the floor,I'm sorry there aren't any chairs any more.Take this rag, little Johnny, wipe the tears from your eyes,The news is our nursery has been privatised.What's that, Helen darling, oh where

  • Love, booze and social justice

    Love, booze and social justice Upstairs @ Lamberti'sThe Hooligans Review by Barry Healy The Irish folk tradition is a broad church. It includes everything from the respectable, squeaky-clean Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem through to the

  • Play looks at Timor community's 'divided self'

    MELBOURNE — Aifunan Midar (Sweet Flowers), a play devised and performed by 18 members of the East Timorese community, opened here on October 8 at Gasworks Theatre. The play uses traditional singing and drumming, coupled with

  • Lynch passes the belly laugh test

    How Green is My Planet?By Mark LynchOrin Books, Melbourne, 1998$14.95 (pb) How Green is My Planet? brings together Mark Lynch's best environmental cartoons. Comedian Spike Milligan provides the foreword and environmentalist David Suzuki writes the

  • Radio Resistance to 'stir things up'

    By Anne O'Casey MELBOURNE — What is controversial, inspirational, irreverent and goes with your corn flakes? Radio Resistance — the latest addition to community radio 3CR's line-up. The half-hour, weekly show will debut on Friday, October 9