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A universal story
Dooligan (John Moore) at a time when his life begins to diverge from that of his childhood friend/cousin ... Blackfellas Starring John Moore, David Ngoombujarra, Jaylene Riley, Lisa Kinchela and John ... was take the camera and put it inside a blackfella's point of view", says Blackfellas ...
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The ALP: Swapping deckchairs on the Titanic
actually opposes. Beazley says that he is going to give Howard the fight of his life and win the next ... the election — let alone win it. Dave Riley [Dave Riley is a member of the Socialist Alliance] From ... After the debacle that was Mark Latham's exit from politics, the decline in the fortunes of ...
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An astute observer from the inside
Palimpsest: A Memoir By Gore Vidal Andre Deutsch: 435 pp. Reviewed by Dave Riley On the final page ... of this book, Gore Vidal informs us that the actor Paul Newman has just rung and proposes dinner with ... will." This familiarity with notables is a Vidal standard. Related through his father's side of the ...
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Torres Strait Islanders in the spotlight
Smith With Susie Porter and Charles Passi SBS-TV, Thursdays 8.30pm REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY There's ... a very successful tradition of serials on Australian TV and RAN — Remote Area Nurse — fits comfortably ... within that thread. The idea of an outsider mixing with an established community has been a plot ...
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You can hear the jaws dropping
Frontline ABC-TV, Monday Reviewed by Dave Riley This is true: my jaw dropped during the first ... episode of Frontline and I still can't pucker up. In my prepubescent foolishness, I once kissed the ... TV screen during The Mickey Mouse Club in the hope of transferring my affections to a mouseketeer. ...
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Community Voice calls for more support for Wollongong culture, music
something special on August 25: an explosion of art, culture and youth talent. During Community Voice's ... public launch of its cultural policy, a crowd of more than 200 people swelled around the mall's ... social atmosphere — was filled with beautiful music, inspired speeches, happy people and the smell of ...
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On the box
On the box By Dave Riley Murphy Brown Channel 9 Many situation comedies are built around one ... central character who retails the best lines and carries the show. Most of these lucky stars are men. For ... assignments and a dedication to the '60s that is both nostalgic and principled. Murphy is of ...
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Is Howard on the ropes?
Iraq." This sentiment is not confined to young people. Fred Moore, retired miner and life member of both ... Kerryn Williams Since winning leadership of the federal ALP, Mark Latham's profile has ... Prime Minister John Howard. "In the space of two short months, the ALP has gone from the Australian ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
human life, both at home and abroad, is the hallmark of capitalism and Nazism. But if it is so, it ... has referred to a "pattern" and "broad system" of prisoner maltreatment. There ... year investigated offences in Iraq, describes "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton ...
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How Aus bank financed the heroin trade
throughout its life amounted to just $105, and it was at all times insolvent. The apparent success of the ... Enforcement Agency. The Chiang Mai office was set up on the helpful suggestion of Murray Stewart Riley, an ... approval of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and in breach of Banking (Foreign Exchange) Regulations. Riley ...
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Inspiration for activists
Anger and Love is a personal story of a fulfilling life in radical politics. "When the Party to ... once you have eaten of the tree of knowledge, how can you turn your back? Life was demonstrating for me ... writing about an odd and unique phase in her life recalled for purposes of nostalgia. Her story is too ...
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Eat my shorts, Bart!
week generate a sharp critique of life in the suburbs. As well as this ready satire, the team is ... life lived in struggle and foolishness without any way of transcending their time slot. But if we can ... The Simpsons Channel 10, Wednesdays Reviewed by Dave Riley Confronted with The Simpsons, Walt ...
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Conferences to explore prospects for human liberation
sex worker Mish Glitter Pony; counsellor, supervisor and educator Elizabeth Anne Riley; sex educator, ... conference comes on the back of another victory for the trans male community. Conor Montgomery was the ... sageaustralia.org. On December 3, thousands of people will rally for full marriage equality outside the ALP national ...
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Can we be ethical without being revolutionary?
"No amount of reflection will show a commitment to an ethical life to be trivial and pointless", ... ethics a more conscious and coherent part of everyday life." The way Singer calls it, everyday ... ethical life is a consciously chosen lifestyle which is "an alternative way of living, at odds with ...
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Immunisation: parent blaming is no answer
February 5 issue of GLW, Dave Riley quotes a 29% immunisation rate at school entry and states that ... first five years and the high vaccination rates of high school students reflect the life patterns of ... Most parents attend during the first months of their child's life, and then drop off dramatically ...
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Worlds apart
War of the Worlds Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Tom Cruise REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY I think ... Steven Spielberg's movie Empire of the Sun is one of the great films of the 1980s. So when it comes ... to expecting something special from Spielberg, I hoped that H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
injured or scarred mentally or physically for life because of these bombings. David Nicholls president, ... time) and "self-esteem improvement". For missing one meeting (I had attended tens of others), ... I was breached by Centrelink on the recommendation of my job network member. As a result, I lost 18% of ...
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A little satire with big laughs
REVIEWED BY DAVE RILEY Political correctness (PC) is the death of satire in many ways, as it precludes ... little sequences of daily life are remarkably potent. The way it plays with such stereotypes as "the ... dross of etiquette. But when the floodgates are opened — such as with the recent Cronulla riot — the ...
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DiaMat makes a comeback
By Dave Riley The tradition of science — the science we are used to — looks upon events in terms ... elementary components nor to represent the width of life's concrete events in abstract models that lose ... tree of life". Neuropsychologist A.L.Luria was a tireless advocate of romantic science. ...
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The present pursues a past future
York: Plenum Press, 320 pp Reviewed by Dave Riley Psychological theories are eminently political. ... ourselves, our expectations, how we treat others, how we comprehend the causes of personal problems, what ... kinds of solutions we believe are possible and the public policies we endorse are mixed up with our ...
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Saying No
The Chatto Book of Dissent By Michael Rosen and David Widgery Chatto and Windus. 457 pp., $19.95 ... Reviewed by Dave Riley "Nothing is harder and takes more character than to stand in open opposition to ... locate one's opposition as part of something much broader. Being a rebel without a cause is a very ...
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Is biology destiny?
so-called gay gene and a gene which causes breast cancer among women". The secret of life is out: human ... not only experience environments, they create them. Even during the life of an organism, its ... measured claims about the complexity of life and how ignorant we are of what determines it are perhaps out ...
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Making crime pay
that V.I. Warshawski is the best of them. After eight books V.I. is experiencing a mid-life crisis and ... interest, devoid of character references, they ever so crudely perform their responsibilities for a life led ... 265 pp., $14.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Norman Mailer said recently that women cannot write good ...
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Cabaret and its cousins in Oz
By Dave Riley The youth radicalisation that swept the world in the '60s bore with it ... a confidence and an experimental imagination that invigorated all areas of creativity. This was especially true ... of theatre. The staid old forms were found lacking and the tired old ideas irrelevant to youth bent ...
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Frank Hardy's masterwork
Dave Riley The image of communism promoted during the Cold War years was that of the great purges. ... But The Dead Are Many By Frank Hardy University of Queensland Press. 293 pp., $16.95 Reviewed by ... but better communists. Imperialist agents were discovered in the most unlikely of places and weeded ...