Culture

  • Life of Riley

    Mr Riley gets his dream house Having a flutter with a little each way does no one any harm. And who knows, maybe you did pick the winner of the Melbourne Cup? If you did then you have tasted success. Prestige and financial reward are yours. Ever so

  • Student Underground

    By Katie Hepworth On November 6 the first full-length edition of Student Underground was sent out to schools all over NSW. The newspaper was produced by the Secondary Student Anti-Nuclear Network (SSAN) and joins a large number of student papers that

  • On the box

    Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and

  • Gutsy girl-talk

    Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex and HairBy Lisa JonesPenguin Books, 1994. 306 pp., $14.95 (pb)Reviewed by Carla Gorton Bulletproof Diva is a collection of street-wise, straight talking and opinionated articles by Lisa Jones. Jones is a staff

  • Beyond belief

    Back of BeyondDirected by Michael RobertsonStarring Paul Mercurio and Colin FrielsScreening at Hoyts cinemasReviewed by Margaret Allan The promotional material for this film promises, "Back of Beyond — a journey you never imagined". Quite frankly

  • On the box

    Australian Options — Left discussions for social justice and political changeAustralian Options Publishing Inc.Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg The second issue of a new quarterly journal, Australian Options, is now available. The journal aims to

  • Defending science from the conservatives

    Reinventing Darwin — The Great Evolutionary DebateBy Niles EldredgeWeidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995 Reviewed by Adam Hanieh The writings of evolutionary biologist and palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould have an enormously popular following. So it was

  • Workin' in the Rain

    [This poem is about Harry Connell, long time activist and founder member of the Builders Labourers Rank and File Committee in the early 1950s.] Harry, they're workin' in the rain, Harry, mate, they're workin' in the rain, Down in George St., mate,

  • Nostradamus' Media Watch

    Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Young Liberal's march Inspired by the

  • Radio highlights

    The Box Seat: Seamus Heaney — Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry, in British-occupied northern Ireland. He now both a professor of rhetoric at Harvard and a professor of poetry at Oxford. His works are richly physical in their depiction of

  • Spirited testament to the East Timorese struggle

    Wall of TestimonyWritten by Jose Casimiro and Maria Alice Casimiro BrancoPerformed by the Lafaek East Timor AssociationReviewed by Sally Mitchell and Tim E. Stewart Wall of Testimony — the latest play by the Lafaek East Timor Association — made

  • Beware the smiling assassin

    The Struggle for Australian Industrial RelationsBy Braham DabscheckOxford University Press, 1995. 194 pp., $26.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon As Keating and Howard obscenely compete for the votes of working class "battlers", we should remind