REVIEW BY JESS MELVIN
The CorporationDirected by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.Written by Joel Bakan, with narration written by Harold Crooks and Mark Achbar.Produced by Big Picture Media CorporationReleased by Zeitgeist Films.145 minutes.
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Control RoomDirected by Jehane Noujaim83 minutes
Distributed in Australia by Rialto Entertainment
REVIEWED BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
Control Room is a moving account of life inside the Qatar-based Aljazeera satellite television station, during the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
If you try to recall the Coalition government's most outrageous attacks on asylum seekers, chances are you would recall the Tampa Affair, the children overboard incident, and the isolated, madness-inducing, detention centres. But
In 2000, 29% of people in the US failed to fill a prescription because they couldn't afford to.
In 2001, the nine largest pharmaceutical companies raked in US$30.6 billion in profits.
The five most highly paid drug company executives pocketed
Art Under OccupationBy Nicholas Rowe & Maysoun Rafeedie387 Guildford Road, GuildfordAugust 22-25 Phone Reeda Kassis on 0404 070 755 or Alissar Chidiac on 9217 0409 or email <alissarc@phm.gov.au> for more information or bookings.
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Ben Cavalli& Fred Fuentes, Perth
The highest decision making body of academics at University of Western Australia (UWA), the academic board, narrowly voted on August 11 to recommend that the UWA senate reject the current proposal to introduce
Pip Hinman, Sydney
"The August 8 statement by 43 former service chiefs and diplomats, accusing PM John Howard of lying about the reasons for Australia going to war on Iraq, underlines what most Australians already know", Anna Samson from Sydney's
Rohan Pearce
Michael Moore's blockbuster documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 isn't just an assault on the Bush regime and the "war on terror" — it indicts the corporate vultures who rushed to cash-in on the warmongers' post-9/11 crusade.
"This is an
Sam Wainwright
On July 28, federal transport minister John Anderson announced a $100 million package of new maritime "security measures", which included background checks on workers in the industry to be carried out by the Australian Security
One of the most famous writings in the history of
socialism is the Junius Pamphlet, written by German
socialist Rosa Luxemburg in 1915 while she was in prison for
opposing the first world war.
Obviously, many things have changed in the world
Sarah Stephen
On August 6, the High Court ruled that the federal government has the legal power to detain failed asylum seekers indefinitely — potentially for the rest of their lives.
In making its decision, the High Court considered the
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly is the most popular Australian political website, and has been on top for each of the last four quarterly surveys, according to a Hitwise report in the August 10 Australian Financial Review.
The chief marketing officer at web
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