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Brian Musgrove – Myth-speak: Politics and Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary Australia
‘Myth-speak’: Politics and Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary Australia By Brian Musgrove On the night of Thursday 22 June 2006, as Australian Members of Parliament packed to leave the national capital for their winter recess, the Canberra Press Gallery received a phone call from the Prime Minister’s Office. Media apparatchiks were summoned to the PM’s residence, [...]
Tom O’Lincoln – “Green and Red Revolution”
“Green and Red Revolution” John Bellamy Foster, Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000); DonnellaMeadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2004): Paul Roberts, The End of Oil: The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New [...]
Verity Bergmann – “Back From the Streets” on Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer’s “Activist Wisdom. Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements”
“Back From the Streets”Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer, Activist Wisdom. Practical Knowledge and Creative Tension in Social Movements, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2006. By Verity Burgmann Academics have a fatal character flaw. They think they are the best people to teach people things. This is a book with a difference. It takes knowledge from the streets [...]
Robert Jensen – Just a Prude? Feminism, Pornography, and Men’s Responsibility
“Just a Prude? Feminism, Pornography, and Men’s Responsibility.” By Robert Jensen I want to begin by coming out: I am a man. More specifically, I am a white man. That’s important because it suggest two things regarding what I know about the world. First, I know some things that women don’t know about men. By [...]
Contents
Australian issue, Number 3, 2006 CONTENTS Brian Musgrove. “`Myth-speak’: Politics and Cultural Symbolism in Contemporary Australia.” Peta Stephenson. “Some Australian Others.”A Review of Phil Sparrow, From Under a Leaky Roof: Afghan Refugees in Australia (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005). Evelyn Hartogh. “Retrieving Histories.”A Review of Ten Canoes Dir. Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer, [...]
Peta Stephenson – “Some Australian Others” on Phil Sparrow’s “From Under a Leaky Roof: Afghan Refugees in Australia”
“Some Australian Others”Phil Sparrow, From Under a Leaky Roof: Afghan Refugees in Australia (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2005)By Peta Stephenson Phil Sparrow’s From Under a Leaky Roof gives rare insight into the lives and experiences of some of the newest arrivals in Australia — Afghan refugees and asylum seekers. The title comes from an [...]
Evelyn Hartogh – “Retrieving Histories” Ten Canoes: Directed by Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer
“Retrieving Histories” Ten Canoes: Directed by Peter Djigirr and Rolf de Heer.Cast includes David Gulpilil, Richard Birrinbirrin, Jamie Gulpilil and Frances Djulibing, Filmed entirely on location in Arnhem Land, Australia.A Vertigo Productions/Fandango Australia production financed by the Film Finance Corporation, the South Australian Film Corporation, the Adelaide Film Festival and SBS Independent, and supported by [...]
Humphrey McQueen – “Place, Colour and Sedition: D. H. Lawrences “Kangaroo”, a Study in Environmental Values”