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  1. ‘The Death Of Stalin’ has laughs, but its satire falls short

    Film & theatre Dave Riley Films and reviews The Death of Stalin Directed by Armando Iannucci ... other political satires — like To Be or Not To Be and Dr Strangelove — The Death of Stalin has trouble ... The Death of Stalin doesn’t quite reach its satirical pretensions. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a great ...

  2. The utes of politics

    of utes. [Satirist Dave Riley is a member of the Socialist Alliance national executive.] Australia ... Dave Riley Utes, the exchange and discussion thereof, could not be more Australian. Any Woza, ... business. So it should come as no surprise that so much of our interest recently has been drawn to whether ...

  3. Banks for people, not profit!

    displaced real production. Like a house of cards, the money men are dragging the whole edifice down on all ... protect the millions of people in Australia who are likely to be its victims. The corporate high flyers ... towards a new political direction not governed by the bottom line. Dave Riley [Dave Riley is a member of ...

  4. Graphic novel brings old war times to life

    precision. It is like my parents photograph album has come alive. I could pass this comic around a bunch of ... storytelling. Mutard's depiction of St Kilda, where Wells lives, is like peeling back that suburb's ... re-consider that time and the people who shared it with him. [Dave Riley is a member of the Socialist Alliance ...

  5. More than songs for the dispossessed

    Dave Riley Phil Monsour is a singer/songwriter based in Brisbane. His songs reflect a passionate ... commitment to the struggles of ordinary people. But Monsour does more than just sing about the world. As part ... of a broader political engagement, he deploys his music as an organising tool. His recent recordings ...

  6. Vote socialist for Sandgate!

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane Mike Crook says he became radicalised by seeing the way ... campaigning against the introduction of 12-hour rotating shifts into the coalmines. He continued this focus ... when he moved to Queensland in 1989 and joined the ALP. In Brisbane, Crook worked in the Department of ...

  7. Howard hands media moguls more power

    over time." When the bill becomes law, there is likely to be a flurry of takeovers as the media ... Dave Riley Australia has the most concentrated media ownership in the Western world. Nonetheless, ... allow the media barons to operate in two out of three media sectors — print, radio and television. While ...

  8. Today's DIY workshop: How to get deported

    Dave Riley I was thinking that I wasn't as up as I should be with core Australian values. ... Here we have folk in the know like that Costello bloke going on about them, when I myself are a bit in ... state! Who do you know wants one of those here in Oz? Them radical Muslims do don't they? Do they? ...

  9. The struggle goes on

    like infant mortality and life expectancy remain Third World regardless of what government's in ... Dave Riley Tony Iltis The 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights — in which more than 90% voted in ... favour of including Aboriginal people in the census and giving the federal government the power to ...

  10. Company profile: ABC Learning

    Dave Riley The recent collapse in ABC Learning Centres' share price generated a media frenzy. ... Director Eddy Groves was reputed to have lost $45 million in just two hours of trading. For a time it ... looked like many centres would close their doors. ABC Learning is the main player in Australia's ...

  11. Privatisation: state-wide campaign heats up

    has something like 80% of the population supporting what it is standing for", he said. "The ... privatisation. The Greens will be part of the community campaign against the privatisation plan. Like the unions, ... Dave Riley After Labor Premier Anna Bligh announced on June 2 that Queensland would be selling off ...

  12. Knowledge through dialogue and liberation

    Dave Riley The Pedagogy of the Oppressed By Paulo Freire Penguin, (revised ed.) 1996. $16.95 (pb) ... Reviewed by Dave Riley The thought and work of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire have revived education as ... the innate wisdom and creativity of the people with whom he or she works. All this may seem like any ...

  13. Is there any real opposition to Beattie's Queensland?

    Dave Riley With the Labor government sitting on a massive majority of 43 seats, the result of the ... different to the election hype engineered by professional spin doctors. [Dave Riley is a member of the ... Queensland state election is an easy call. The big end of town may be keen to reduce the arrogance that such ...

  14. Multimedia and radical organising

    Dave Riley In a new initiative for a political party in Australia, the Socialist Alliance is using ... the web to open up the organisation of its federal election campaign. Mainstream parties have ... generated a lot of media attention with their self-promotion on YouTube, MySpace and Facebook, but the ...

  15. Mulrunji campaign: Racist police fear justice

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane "It must never again be the case that a death in custody, of ... and the death of Mulrunji (Doomadgee) on Palm Island in November 2004 could have been just another ... manslaughter for the unlawful killing of Mulrunji. While this result is a major win for Indigenous Australians, ...

  16. Police racism: Stop deaths in custody!

    Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane In a damning report released on September 27, Queensland's ... Island death in custody of Mulrunji, saying that it failed to meet appropriate guidelines. Clements also ... found that Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley caused Mulrunji's death and accused the police of ...