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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 ... is so ingenious that it's like the Brits are being dissected through a succession of flayed ... dross of etiquette. But when the floodgates are opened — such as with the recent Cronulla riot — the ...
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Eat my shorts, Bart!
The Simpsons Channel 10, Wednesdays Reviewed by Dave Riley Confronted with The Simpsons, Walt ... be minus a yabba-dabba-doo or two if Pebbles grew up anything like Bart. The Simpsons live in urban ... Springfield, which is a long way from the Magic Kingdom but much closer to the world on this side of the ...
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Are One Nation supporters racists?
Comment by Dave Riley The recent secondary student walkouts have promoted a wave of discussion on ... popular agitators like William Lane at the turn of the century was for the white race alone. In 40 years ... the topic of racism — what it is and how to fight it. But the new rise in the confidence of the ...
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Where do 'Leading Schools' lead?
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — State education in Queensland has traditionally been one of the lowest ... they take on the program. But the carrots cannot hide the likely outcome. As the husband of one primary ... funded in Australia. With the election of the Goss Labor government in 1989, some of this disparity was ...
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Violence and its victims
criminal violence in our society to TV and the like is part of foisting blame on specific targets, which ... By Dave Riley The way we are encouraged to view them, our working — 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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UNITED STATES: How the Bush gang loots Iraq
BY ROHAN PEARCE The scramble for a quick buck by US corporations in the aftermath of ... Washington's invasion of Iraq came as no surprise to all but the most naive — US policy in the Middle East has ... always been guided by seizing and controlling the economic bounty of the region. What has astounded many, ...
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Public transport for public good
Dave Riley The recent rail crisis in Sydney has drawn attention, once again, to the future of ... out of their cars for nothing less. [Dave Riley is a member of the Socialist Alliance.] From Green ... public transport in Australia. Since most Australians travel by car, the fate of the nation's public ...
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Saying No
lyrics of songs writen by the likes of Bessie Smith, James Brown, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello; verses ... 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 ...
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On the box
On the box Seinfeld Ch 10, Tuesday Absolutely Fabulous ABC-TV, Monday Reviewed by Dave Riley Each ... summer television turns into a graveyard. The dead walk again on the dark side of the daylight hours, ... risen up from the video vaults in search of another dollar. Such reanimated biographies are marked ...
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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. ... that remain of a proud tradition. The late Frank Hardy was one of them. Like it or not, we are all ... But The Dead Are Many By Frank Hardy University of Queensland Press. 293 pp., $16.95 Reviewed by ...
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Coming to grips with the rural crisis
process. Like all other industries, the production of food and fibre is being restructured along lines ... 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 ...
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Sceptics' mumbo jumbo manual
RILEY When oft upon my couch I lie with my head in a book, I sometimes wallow in my choice of pastimes. ... to a postscript written after the book was first published. Here, as well as attacking the likes of ... there is an awful lot of crap between covers. I mean insidious, destructive mumbo jumbo that gets passed ...
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Write On: Letters to 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ 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 ...
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A Cruise through Japan's political past
major cinemas REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY Any serious examination of The Last Samurai must consider the ... Japan. The Last Samurai is the tale of a washed-out veteran of the US Civil War (played by Tom Cruise), ... who becomes a mercenary in Japan soon after the overthrow of the Shogunate and the restoration of ...
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Inspiration for activists
Williams disagrees. For activists like myself who belong to the '60s generation of radicals, it is ... Anger and Love By Justina Williams Fremantle Arts Press. 280 pp. $16.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley In ... answer to the question, "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?", many ...
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Why bother with Brecht?
Unfortunately, Brechtians are like British Trotskyists — put two of them in a room together, and you are sure to ... By Dave Riley We should thank Eric Singh (GLW #313) for reminding us that this year is the 100th ... anniversary of the birth of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. No doubt, as the drama industry cranks up, ...
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Write On: Letters to the Editor
of Little Britain (GLW #662). Dave likes the show — good on him. It's on prime time TV, so we ... similar conditions of employment to those existing before the unfortunate election of the Coalition ... iniquitous policies of the Coalition government. Some of them were the GST, Tampa deception, the misleading ...
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Street life in Brisbane
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Crime waves make good copy. Journalists can spice up a story with charges ... of gangsterism and thuggery after stopping off at the media liaison section of the Queensland Police ... Force. Regardless of the recent headings in the local Courier-Mail, crime in Queensland has not increased ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
supporters about the effects of his policies. On economics, readers should consult Peddling Prosperity by ... drove the upturn. "The conservative claim to have found the secret of growth is entirely false ... "The policies of the Reagan and Bush administrations were if anything biased against long-term ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
of these are equipped, in the name of safety, with hefty bullbars. While the rich get around the ... cities in their all-terrain vehicles, which only they can afford to buy and maintain, the rest of us in ... to the danger they pose (and, in the case of many low-income families, a lack of car heating). ...
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Goss to the rescue
been wondering why the likes of Bill O'Chee and Bob Katter Jr have been so noisy over Wik and ... Comment by Dave Riley BRISBANE — If you were perhaps fearing that the Hanson band wagon would ... battlers' hero and local identity Wayne Goss is keen to take her on. The good people of the electorate of ...
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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 ... of constituent parts. We find out about the whole by cutting it up into individual bits and pieces. ... Each bit has its own intrinsic properties, contained and independent from everything else. Like so many ...
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Getting the word out about cultural activism
around and analysing things to death... Of course, come time for the workshop, talk we did! I feel like ... should be part of the movement? Anytime I hear that, I feel like it's a brush-off. "We have to ... Getting the word out about cultural activism By Dave Riley Scott M.X. Turner describes himself as ...
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Public transport, private greed
By Dave Riley BRISBANE — Anti-freeway mobilisations here have shaken the state Labor government. ... In the series of rallies generated from among anti-freeway activists, more than 12,000 people have ... with all the other freeway projects. In the suburbs south of the CBD, the Department of ...
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Making crime pay
share the mean streets with a pack of women, all licensed to snoop and shoot like the boys. Word has it ... 265 pp., $14.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley Norman Mailer said recently that women cannot write good ... pressed to find a male province where a set of testicles could put lead in its pencil and write in peace. ...