Culture

  • Jabiluka

    Jabiluka Chorus: I've got the Jabiluka bluesnothing to gainbut every damn thing to lose.I used to worry about uraniumuntil Pan Con bought me off.I'm trying to sell uraniumbut everyone's got enough. I got the Jabiluka blues,while driving my

  • A tale more gripping than Melrose Place

    The Victory — (The Inside Story of the Takeover of Australia)By Pamela WilliamsAllen & Unwin, 1997, 370 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Melanie Sjoberg The Victory is a gripping tale of intrigue, dubious financial deals and dynamic interpersonal

  • The power of Oils

    The power of Oils 20,000 WATT R.S.L.Midnight OilColumbia/Sony Review by John Gauci Nowadays, artists tend to release a greatest hits collection after three or four albums which include a few hits and a couple of misses. Midnight Oil has waited 10

  • Kev Carmody and Neil Murray on racism

    Green Left Weekly's JOHN TOGNOLINI interviewed singer-songwriters KEV CARMODY and NEIL MURRAY about their views on the Olympics, the stolen generations, native title, reconciliation and racism. Question: It's only a few years since Sydney won the

  • The search for freedom

    Heaven's BurningDirected by Craig LahiffScreenplay by Louis NowraREP Film Distributors Opens nationally November 6 Review by Marina Carman Humour, excitement, romance and violence — all the essential elements are there in this action-packed

  • Give me a home among the gum trees

    Burke's BackyardChannel 9Fridays, 7.30pm Reviewed by Al McCall Since Australia missed out on feudalism, any new chum arriving in the antipodes was surely keen on a piece of land to call their own. Aside from the fact that the previous owners

  • A not so black and white look at war

    Pretty Village Pretty FlameDirected by Srdjan DragojevicSharmill FilmsOpening at Dendy Theatres in November Review by Jon Land This is a gripping film which highlights the senselessness of war. While it does not seek to explain the politics of the

  • Frontline Film Foundation launch

    Huge cutbacks in funding for documentaries under the Howard government have left the independent film industry on its knees, according to film maker David Bradbury. Bradbury claims that last year's federal government budget cuts, which he described

  • ARCO

    ARCO [This poem was written by one of the sacked miners from the Gordonstone coal mine in Queensland. It was read to an October 17 rally of miners and their families in Emerald.] So you're sacking all the workers, that's such a bitter pill.You're

  • The ghost of Robert-Bloody-Menzies

    A short story by Craig Cormick Oh shit! It can't be. Robert-Bloody-Menzies! He looks just like Robert-Bloody-Menzies. Right down to the eyebrows and turned up collar. I stare real hard, but try not to look like I'm staring. You know what it's like

  • University life in the '90s

    University life in the '90s UniA four-part documentary by Simon TargetFirst episode screens on The Big Picture, ABC, November 6 Review by Marina Carman In this new documentary about student life in the 1990s, Simon Target and crew follow three

  • 'Marcos is gay'

    'Marcos is gay' Some time ago, in an attempt to discredit one of the Zapatista leaders in southern Mexico, Sub-comandante Marcos, government officials there tried to put forth the idea that Marcos was gay. In a region where machismo still runs