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1. Forget the person, look to the institution

   people like the monarchy, then how is it undemocratic? Take, for instance, the elevation of David ... reaction to the death of Elizabeth has been so absurd, with multiple newspapers running stories about ... worthy-of-North-Korean propaganda, has obscured the obvious point that the royal family are humans with a lot of unearned ...

2. ‘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 ...

3. Criminals exploit black youth

   officer Rob Riley. Riley said that an 80-90% unemployment rate and the general social dislocation of ... and compact disc players. Riley described the adult exploiters of Aboriginal youth as the "scum ... of the earth". Many kids were apparently stealing to pay for alcohol and drugs, Riley said. ...

4. Funkoars super-producer Trials instils Black pride

   of unhinged lunatics, start roaring like they've been freed from the asylum. Who could it be? ... JB's because you'd be listening to a lot of shit as well. And you'd be like, 'Ah, ... up music like a sponge. Samples have been his lifeblood ever since he bought a pair of turntables and ...

5. 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 ...

6. Sorry To Bother You offers rich lessons in seeking radical social change

   million. But for much of the year, it looked like Australian audiences would not get to see Riley’s film, ... Australian audiences, what makes Riley’s film so different, such that it looked like it would not get ... uncompromising critique of our current moment. What is clear from Riley’s depiction of the present day is that ...

7. Industrial cuisine

   Dave Riley's dismissal of my critique of supermarket culture and the modern diet, and his attack ... preclude further discussion of such issues. Riley's gripe, however, is that I didn't talk about ... seems to consist of inserting the word "capitalism" into every second sentence. For Riley ...

8. Write on

   Speciesism I would like to respond to an article "Becoming Human" by Dave Riley in GLW ... the concept of nature. Why? Perhaps because they walk upright! Riley's other justifications seem ... anatomy of an emu and a duck is also "immense"? Riley's statements on language are equally ...

9. Fighting the ‘fires’ of transphobia

   equality postal survey caused a lot of pain for the LGBTI community. But Goldner told  91������̳ Weekly ... of [Prime Minister Scott] Morrison’s ‘gender whisperer’ ideas proves that while transphobes are — as ... usual — trying to light the fires of transphobia, the flames aren’t catching,” Goldner said. Morrison ...

10. Time to wake up satire

    days, Dave Riley decided to do something about it. "Good satire", he told 91������̳ Weekly, ... called the Satire Workshop, Riley has been trying to hone old blades. "We've been networking ... contemporary satire is of the right, rather than of the left persuasion, with misogyny and "political ...

11. Tony Abbott shuts down Aboriginal legal services

    Association (ABA) president Fiona McLeod SC as saying “the likely consequences of these cuts will be chaos in ... Aboriginal Justice Agency Australian Bar Association Northern Territory's chief justice Trevor Riley In ... away from the horrific substance of the Human Rights Commission’s report on children living in ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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? ...

18. 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 ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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 ...

22. 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 ...

23. Gundungurra Traditional Owners: ‘Warragamba Dam project must be stopped’

    rest of the country. “John Joseph Riley, my grandfather’s grandfather, was the first ... Wales Gladys Berejiklian government wants to raise the Warragamba Dam — which supplies most of ... Sydney's water — by up to 17 metres, flooding 6000 hectares of the World Heritage-listed Greater Blue ...

24. OUR COMMON CAUSE: The commandment of 'mutual obligation'

    the "life of Riley" at the hard-working taxpayer's expense. We are being told that ... commandment of "mutual obligation" is now to be driven roughshod over the disabled. Dave Riley [Dave ... Riley is a member of the 91������̳ Weekly-Socialist Alliance editorial liaison board]. From 91������̳ ...

25. 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 ...

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