Search Results: globalisation
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 29 November 2007
Rochelle Siemienowicz is the films editor for The Big Issue Australia.
She has a PhD in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry with a focus on
Australian cinema and globalisation. Rochelle blogs at www.itsbetterinthedark.blogspot.com.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
2 Comments
On foreign aid, development assistance and trade justice, Peter Costello says “Economic growth is the real poverty buster”. The bishops say: "True, but economic growth must go hand in hand with eradicating poverty and ensuring trade justice".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 17 October 2007
As Australians wait for a Federal election, Hilary Glow’s book is timely evidence that what is wrong with the world is what politicians would have us believe. Contemporary playwrights are wrestling with the issues seen as crucial to the notion of who we really are as Australians in the twenty-first century.
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ECONOMICS
- Les Coleman
- 22 August 2007
1 Comment
Both Government and Opposition seem committed to economic reform. But the fact that the Howard Government's fiscal policy is currently being steered by a drunken sailor is cause for alarm, as is Kevin Rudd's lack of experience and seeming inability to come up with his own economic policies.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 July 2007
Lucky Miles is an outrageous buddy comedy set in 1990 in the Western Australian wilderness, with echoes of September 11, border security, and the totalitarian Indigenous intervention. This topicality borders on prophetic, as the film was conceived seven years ago.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A new book shows how the history of a technology can be used for exploring some of the key forces and events of an age. The future could have us all living in red zones, and subject to surveillance, police checks and suspended civil liberties.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 May 2007
1 Comment
Indigenous beliefs were - and are - considered subversive, and therefore suppressed in colonised societies on earth. Zimbabwe's Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1899 was repealed last year as part of Robert Mugabe's heightened reaction against colonialism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joseph Camilleri
- 18 May 2007
In light of the federal election, Joe Camilleri considers the questions that have yet to be asked
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Joseph Camilleri
- 17 May 2007
Joseph Camilleri is Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University. He has written and lectured extensively on international relations, governance and globalisation, human rights, North–South relations, international organisations, the United Nations, and the Asia-Pacific region.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 02 April 2007
3 Comments
Lily Brett's writing about her struggle to come to grips with her emotional scars in middle age gives us insight into our own. Moreover, the doctrine of original sin suggests that our temptation to blame violence entirely on terrorists is far too simplistic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 27 February 2007
World literature is much richer for the input of Italian Andrea Camilleri, Australian Peter Corris and Scot Ian Rankin. They have mastered the art of presenting modern characters in contemporary situations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.
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