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  1. Coming to grips with the rural crisis

    Lawrence, Frank Vanclay and Brian Furze Macmillan Australia. 337 pp. $32.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley When ... Dorothea MacKellar put her patriotic juices to work in poetic praise of a giving landscape, she had no ... notion of how misplaced her enthusiasms were: "Core of my heart, my country, land of the rainbow ...

  2. Write on: Letters to the editor

    relatives 鈥 wishes and hopes in regard to idealised notions of their kin 鈥 but to discover late in life that ... standardly replicated under banner of various donor conception programs. Dave Riley Brisbane [Abridged] ABC ... Adoption I have spent a lot of time with adoptees and am familiar with their rite of passage in ...

  3. A Cruise through Japan's political past

    major cinemas REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY Any serious examination of The Last Samurai must consider the ... eliminated and Westernisation threatened their way of life. While the rebellion was more economic and ... Japan. The Last Samurai is the tale of a washed-out veteran of the US Civil War (played by Tom Cruise), ...

  4. Violence and its victims

    widespread symptom of life in the 1990s. Our lot is a pervasive dread, conditioned by the belief that ... By Dave Riley The way we are encouraged to view them, our working 鈥 and particularly our living ... locked and windows barred, we create our own little enclave of security in front of the television. Mum, ...

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    is a fallible human artifact. Now having taken on a life of its own, it has within itself the logic ... Riley's review (May 4) of Lewontin's recent genetics book. Science is generally distorted and ... Mbongeni Ngema I was excited by Norm Dixon's review of Mbongeni Ngema's new play Magic ...

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    years of my life already. Allow me, however, to point out those parties who will attend, and who will ... Olympics Sydney Nooo!! Robert Wood Surry Hills Too much meat Dave Riley's series titled The ... politics of eating (GLW 109-111), suffers from a distinct lack of politics and history. It is totally ...

  7. Cabaret: When Voltaire met the Black Cat

    By Dave Riley Cabaret in popular usage generally conjures up visions of strip joints, sleazy bars ... images the film Cabaret added the grim aura of decadence matched with a sentimental fondness for ... pre-Hitler Germany. These versions of cabaret are only what Lisa Appignanesi, in her book on cabaret, called ...

  8. Write on: letters to the editor

    life, my pride and joy, heart and soul. I am 5'6" and weigh 138 pounds. Brown hair, brown ... Holman Unit Holman 3700-8-D-9 Atmore Al 36503-3700 Volcanoes The French have chosen one of the worst ... places in the world to conduct their nuclear tests. Mururoa Atoll is the tip of a volcano that is ...

  9. Technological parenthood: secrets and lies

    COMMENT BY HELEN RILEY I would like to take up some of the issues raised by Margaret Allum in her ... construction and life meaning. The important thing is not what proportion of our identity is formed by nature ... choices have more to do with engineering people out of infertility than creating a relationship between ...

  10. Ireland: Blair, loyalists stall peace

    By Dave Riley The Northern Ireland peace process is in great jeopardy following the expulsion from ... political negotiations of Sinn F茅in, which represents more than 40% of nationalist opinion in the Six ... political hallmark. Meanwhile loyalist gangs, some of whom were represented at the talks, launched ...

  11. London/Dublin sabotage peace in Ireland

    By Dave Riley With six Catholics shot dead after six weeks of a loyalist killing spree, the ... a proposition gift-wrapped to ensure their continuing dominance of the political, social and economic life in ... a response to the killing of a leading loyalist by the Irish National Liberation Army, which has no ...

  12. Write On: Letters to 91自拍论坛 Weekly

    "proof", he points out that the section of beach where the development will be centred on is an old ... Benbow's article (GLW #570) to which he refers claim that the whole of Coogee Beach was in ... for the public to enjoy. Furthermore, Davison avoids the whole crux of the issue. Does he think it ...

  13. 'You can't build anything without enthusiasm'

    By Dave Riley Norma Nord joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1937. "I was a terribly ... of the Worker's Weekly because I was just getting involved in the peace movement. I found out ... materialism, that seemed just what I had been looking for all my life. I ended up tutoring Marxist theory. It ...

  14. Music can give 鈥榲oice to voiceless鈥

    91自拍论坛 Weekly 鈥檚 Chris Peterson spoke to singer/guitaris Sturgeon (also known as Stza) ahead of the ... tour. * * * Star Fucking Hipsters is a highly political band. What sort of role do you think that music ... completely think of the Third World as enemies or generally 鈥渟cary鈥 places to visit. Because that is what we ...

  15. Denis Leary: militant mirth marauder

    taking up the themes of drugs, drink, cigarettes, meat, war and life versus death (and cigarettes). ... No Cure For Cancer By Denis Leary Picador. 133 pp., $12.95. Reviewed by Dave Riley My sister runs ... a monologist. What we would call a one-man show he delivers with the punchiness of stand-up comedy. The ...

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    Its a shame most meat eaters have the nerve to just dismiss the life of an animal in order for ... difficult and confusing as Dave Riley's article "Does meat make the meal?" (91自拍论坛 ... not necessarily a quick process but is better done over a length of time. A good way is to plan on one ...

  17. Chasing a bum steer

    writes, "the poor of the planet languish for want of the bare essentials of life. The injustice ... Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture By Jeremy Rifkin Dutton, 1992. 353 pp., ... $26.25 Reviewed by Dave Riley As rural researcher Geoffrey Lawrence has pointed out, "Farmers do not ...

  18. A bridge worth crossing

    $12.95 (pb) Reviewed by Dave Riley William Morris was an extraordinary man. Today, a year short of the ... of life. It is here that Morris sustains his political relevance and deserves to be read once again. ... centenary of his death, perhaps a reassessment of his many contributions to the decorative arts, literature ...

  19. Becoming human: a user's guide

    by Dave Riley When Charles Darwin synthesised the biological knowledge of the 19th century into ... transition from ape-like creature to human being, much more was involved than the advance of nature alone. ... of the pelvis, led to a qualitatively different product 鈥 one that was both of nature and other than ...

  20. Write on: Letters to the editor

    up his act. Dave Riley Brisbane Billy Nessen Your recent reports of journalist Billy Nessen's ... weapons.] Israel I cannot for the life of me understand why leftists, of all people, are so vehement in ... thinking. Fomiatti seems to know little of what is going on in Brazil and even less about the way in which ...

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    environment. On real farms, though, a pig's life is one of unmitigated frustration, stress and pain. They ... must be met so all life forms do not live under the threat of radiation related diseases, which include ... Vegetarianism Dave Riley's article "Does Meat Make the Meal?" (GL 11/8/93) skimps ...

  22. Does meat make the meal?

    鈥 a profit on life itself." Lapp茅's simple question asks: Why hunger in a world of plenty? Lapp茅 is ... By Dave Riley Rural Australia, not renowned for subtle language, generated a bumper sticker a few ... human digestive system is fundamentally different from that of meat eaters like dingoes. With their much ...

  23. The people's court jester

    The Tricks of the Trade By Dario Fo Methuen. 224 pp., $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Acting is ... the life of the comic performer back to the itinerant jongleur. But this is much more than a text for ... taken so much for granted. So much of the culture we enjoy now depends on the ability of individuals to ...

  24. Write on: letters to the editor

    a genuine appreciation of what is needed today. Those who would ignore it are sure to relive it. Dave Riley ... a right, equal to my own, to go for a life of lesser alienation from all other people including me." ... of the squandering of so many left regroupment openings during the 1980s and early nineties begs ...

  25. Write on: Letters to the editor

    Palestine Members of Socialist Alliance have every reason to be proud of Kim Bullimore and Rihab ... Charida who have left the safety of Sydney to enter the most dangerous regions of the Middle East to ... Women's Peace Service in Palestine, Rihab is also rendering great service in other parts of Palestine. We ...

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