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01 March 2004
Kevin Summers reflects on art for arts sake in Silencia.
If economic rationalism has hit Australia hard, with the widening gap between rich and poor, the damage I’ve seen in my birth country has been far worse.
Ruth Lovell savours Tiepolo’s Cleopatra by Jaynie Anderson.
Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much
Kirsty Grant reveals a world of decadence in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Peter Craven casts light on the Dance of Death.
Cruising Samurai | Big Fish | Good bye Lenin! | Cold Mountain
'Should I shake someone’s hand or will it offend?’ ‘Should I have my head covered?’ ‘Will they think I’m really thick if I ask why they do that?’. These were some of the common concerns for the 30 young people involved in a multi-faith experiment in late January.
Andrew Coorey proclaims The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning.
Kirsty Sangster on Plenty: Art into Poetry by Peter Steele.
Jane Mayo Carolan confronts poverty in Australia.
Gabriel Smith salutes Steve Waugh.
Ralph Carolan visits The Temple Down the Road: The life and times of the MCG by Brian Matthews.
David Ferris reviews The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia by Marian Sawer.
What is anti-Semitism? | The undeserving poor
You don’t have to delve far into the media to recognise what a difficulty homosexuality presents for the Christian churches and to society in general. It’s no less a problem for biology.
By any standards it seems a fine kettle of fish. Most of the intelligence gathered by two of the best-equipped nations on earth seems to have been false.
The Federal Government abhors workers using unions to bargain collectively. But there is different thinking for small business.
Conventional journalism portrays war as a zero sum game, a series of violent exchanges between contending parties. ‘War reporting’ requires clear winners and losers, and the media interprets the events contributing to conflict accordingly.
Pride of Erin | Across the fence | Descending gloom
David Glanz on the World Social Forum’s agenda.
Lucille Hughes discusses the state of the Australian film industry
As far as events in the Place de l’Horloge are concerned, Madame Gauguin is the one who knows all.
In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.
Poem by Brendan Ryan
Passing on inherited wisdom is always fraught. Especially when the wisdom clashes with that of the prevailing culture.
David Holdcroft writes on the colourful culture at the World Social Forum.
Peter Hamilton reflects on Guatemala, and the features of the old city, Antigua.
Poem by Jorie Manefield Ryan
Recent statements by government leaders accusing their own schools of ‘values neutral’ education demonstrate clearly how out of touch they are with teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms.
Jacqueline Dalmau’s Cuba.