Welcome to Eureka Street

back to site

Keywords: Reading

  • RELIGION

    If you're happy and you know it clap your hands

    • Chris Fotinopoulos
    • 13 November 2006

    Many within the conservative Christian camp have come to accept music as an effective means of spreading the gospel. Artists, by virtue of their creative independence, can, if they choose, talk "truth" to the State. No group should force anyone to sing and clap to a single tune.

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    The bloke with a book at the bar

    • Paul Daffey
    • 30 October 2006

    Phil is always at the end of the bar with his head in a book or, occasionally, a newspaper. He never tires of reading in company, with a either a vodka and Coke or a Cascade Light just off the page.

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    Ways of reading sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities

    • Myrna Tonkinson
    • 12 June 2006
    4 Comments

    It has become unpopular to invoke cultural and individual factors to explain the appalling conditions of Australia's Indigenous population. Some of the pronouncements emanating from government and other quarters are patronising and couched in terms that suggest that Indigenous people are wilfully recalcitrant.

    READ MORE
  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book business

    • Sara Dowse
    • 25 April 2006

    Reading the Sydney Writers’ Festival

    READ MORE
  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    The book or the world?

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 23 April 2006

    Margaret Dooley Award Winner, 2005: Sarah Kanowski argues that reading is a moral practice.  

    READ MORE
  • AUSTRALIA

    Spreading seeds of culture

    • Michele Gierck
    • 21 April 2006

    Determined to preserve old stories and encourage young voices, tribal elders in Western Australia took a bold publishing step.

    READ MORE
  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Philip Harvey

    • Philip Harvey

    Philip Harvey is the poetry editor of Eureka Street. Any poetry submissions can be mailed to him at poetry@eurekastreet.com.au. Philip has published widely both in and outside Australia. He also maintains a poetry site, a poetry readings site and a workplace blogspot at the Carmelite Library in Middle Park.

    READ MORE