Keywords: Eureka Street Radio
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 November 2010
1 Comment
The youths take fearful strides into adulthood, embracing responsibility through necessity, unprotected by parents, teachers or mentors. Like many fictional 'chosen ones', Harry Potter is an allegorical Christ figure.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 15 November 2010
7 Comments
The release on Saturday of Burma's democracy hero Aung San Suu Kyi, and last week's Australian high court decisions regarding refugees and bikies, each contain salutary lessons for governments that attempt to rule by popular fear.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 October 2010
2 Comments
There is credible speculation new part-owner James Packer will use his influence to kill innovation at Network Ten. The authority should respond by enforcing broadcast licence conditions, to ensure Packer's return to significant media ownership is in the public interest and not his self-interest.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 September 2010
3 Comments
The characters voice implicit moral concerns about the right to kill in self-defense, and rationalise why it might be right to take up arms against the invaders. When Ellie is confronted by a mural depicting an encounterbetween Captain Cook and a group of Aboriginal Australians, she ismomentarily arrested.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Nigel Pearn
- 18 August 2010
3 Comments
The book was banned after parents complained about its anti-authoritarian attitude: 'Wanja [the dog] loved to chase the [police] van ... to bark at the van ... to bite at the wheel. The police van would drive away.' Like Jewish humour, Aboriginal humour is a response to a history of oppression.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 09 August 2010
17 Comments
Gillard was photographed looking up to Cardinal George Pell with an admiring glance, and attended a fundraiser for expenses associated with October's Mary MacKillop canonisation in Rome. She offered $1.5 million in government money, but much more than that in flattery to Catholic electors.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 June 2010
13 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 04 June 2010
14 Comments
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 24 May 2010
38 Comments
When AFL legend Jason Akermanis' argument that gay footballers should stay in the closet failed to gain traction, it appeared that in Australia, widespread homophobia was a thing of the past. But the reaction to NSW Transport Minister David Campbell's visit to a gay sex club proves it remains an ugly force.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 21 May 2010
11 Comments
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 February 2010
2 Comments
As the $250 million 'gift' to free to air TV networks was announced, we heard that the Communications Minister had been fraternising in exclusive locations with Australia's richest media moguls. Perhaps Minister Conroy should now play pool at the local pub with a community radio station manager.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 January 2010
Are we to accept that the inspiration of sporting victory is alone
sufficient to solve conflict and soothe the way to redemption and
rebirth for a divided nation? If so, it must be said that Eastwood's film is
history rendered as a fairytale.
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