Keywords: Police Brutality
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A group of men wander the fields and knolls of a Turkish steppe in search of a corpse. Among them, a doctor's willingness to share a smoke with a confessed murderer contrasts starkly with the police chief's latent brutality. In this place empathy seems ever at odds with a world-weariness bordering on apathy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ellena Savage
- 28 October 2011
22 Comments
The fact the Queen is a very nice lady doesn't negate her inherited privilege, her arbitrary powers, and the fact her reign isolates many Australians. There is a myth that Australia is a larrikin nation. But we are a nation not of provocateurs, but of conformists.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 20 August 2010
20 Comments
Ngunnawal Elder Aunty Janet Phillips says that for Aboriginal Australians
there's no 'justice'; 'just us'.
How can we turn this election into a building block for a more equal society?
The answer involves weighing up the known
policies and track-record of both sides to assess their
impact on the growth of inequality.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 August 2010
7 Comments
This election campaign has been reminiscent of the Italian hunting season, where it becomes dangerous
to go out of doors when so many guns are pointed into the air. Elections are like the shooting season. High fliers are safe. Low fliers are not.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 August 2010
48 Comments
The naming of participating in women's ordination as a crime
against faith os disconcerting. I recently attended the ordination of a
woman friend in another church. The celebration was prayerful and joyful,
and promised to be the prelude to a fruitful ministry by faithful and
committed candidates.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 March 2010
12 Comments
Thirty years ago today Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot as he celebrated
Mass. His blood and the chalice were spilled together on the altar.
His anniversary will be remembered around the world, for he provides one
of the universal images of what living faithfully as a Christian might
look like today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 January 2010
6 Comments
From a patronising priest to a pair of impressionable hippies, the white characters are all doofuses. Bran Nue Dae provides a means for introducing young people to the ongoing impacts of white settlement upon Indigenous Australians.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellie Savage
- 09 September 2009
9 Comments
As Ibrahim waited for a taxi, he was attacked by four men who had been kicked out of a nearby club. Though severely injured, he continued to
fight against his attackers. When police arrived, they sprayed capsicum foam in Ibrahim's face.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 31 March 2009
4 Comments
The Russian language has two words for whisperer: one who whispers
behind others' backs, and one who whispers for fear of being
heard. Government forces wish emphasise Stalin's achievements as the builder of the country's glorious Soviet past.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 October 2008
12 Comments
When a Muslim woman was kidnapped by the
Byzantine empire, the Caliph in Baghdad threatened to
send a vast army to rescue her.
Today, Muslim leaders do nothing to help
women being mistreated and held in captivity in their own countries.
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AUSTRALIA
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 17 October 2007
A new generation of young activists was born on the streets of Rangoon last month. The war being raged by the Burmese military against its own people has faded from the international headlines, but Burmese young people from all walks of life continue to step up their non-violent resistance campaign.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Alex McDermott, Tim Metherall, Morag Fraser
- 04 July 2006
Reviews of the films Talk to Her; The Pianist; Ned Kelly; Sur Mes Lèvres; and The Hours.
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