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Author: Anthony

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Timely liberation

    • Anthony Morris
    • 04 September 2014

    While not everything always turns out for the best in Boyhood, the stakes aren't high in any traditional sense. Instead, time gains power from its sheer passage on the screen. For Mason, the central character, it is a liberation. 

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Bats not boats for Afghanistan

    • Anthony
    • 10 September 2013
    17 Comments

    The United States, a country of cricket illiteracy, spent more than $1 million constructing the Kabul Cricket Stadium, recognising the major impact cricket is having in the country. Australia, one of cricket's 'first nations', has done nothing. It is tragic that, for ordinary Afghans, the vast majority of whom have never considered seeking asylum, Australia's most visible contribution to their country is the message to 'keep away'.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Liberated Libya's fatal flaws

    • Anthony Ham
    • 12 September 2011
    3 Comments

    The disparate strands of Libya's revolution have been held together by a single unifying thread: a visceral desire to oust Gaddafi. Extremely effective as a rallying cry for rebellion, this anti-Gaddafi sentiment is deeply flawed as the unifying narrative for a new nation.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Not-quite-right freedom from hunger

    • Anthony Lynch
    • 06 April 2010
    3 Comments

    He walked with his back hunched, his lowered head inches above his toes. As if he feared cavities or his own anonymity. That black dog stopping at every fence post.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Gay yodellers' compassionate politics

    • Anthony Morris
    • 26 November 2009

    As gay yodelling country-and-western singers and political advocates, you'd think the Topp Twins might have struggled to achieve mainstream success. The Twins have mastered the art of being very funny without excluding anyone from the joke.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    No easy answers to stressed Jewishness

    • Anthony Morris
    • 19 November 2009

    For once in the Coens’ recent comedies not everyone here is an idiot. But not being an idiot doesn’t help serious man Gopnik much, as his world continues to spiral out of control.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Passing go

    • Anthony Ham
    • 18 May 2007

    Migration hurdles

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The original Europeans

    • Anthony Ham
    • 18 May 2007

    Anthony Ham discovers that Basque is not a region but a way of life

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Anthony Hallam

    • Anthony Hallam
    • 17 May 2007

    Tony Hallam is a secondary school teacher in Gympie, and teaches students affected by the Mary River dam.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Anthony Ham

    • Anthony Ham
    • 17 May 2007

    Anthony Ham is a writer and photographer who writes regularly for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers and magazines from his home in Madrid. He has been writing for Eureka Street since 1999.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Lavapiés – where old Europe meets new

    • Anthony Ham
    • 23 December 2006

    The Madrid barrio of Lavapiés has always been peopled with immigrants. The easy coexistence of tradition and diversity there is especially important, on a continent made suddenly uneasy by its burgeoning immigrant populations.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Spain's hard line makes illegal immigration more dangerous

    • Anthony Ham
    • 04 September 2006

    Europe and Africa lie just 14km apart across the Straits of Gibraltar which separate Spain from Morocco, but when it comes to living standards, there is no wider gulf between neighbours anywhere in the world.

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