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Keywords: 1970

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film of the week

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 28 August 2008
    2 Comments

    During the 1970s, Australian cinema experienced what many now regard as its golden age. Who were the maverick filmmakers gleefully scuffing up the flipside of that glittering coin, and why does Phillip Adams despise them so?

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Abe Ata

    • Abe Ata
    • 29 November 2007

    Professor Abe W. Ata was a temporary delegate to the UN in 1970 and has lived and worked in the Middle East, America and Australia. Dr Ata is a ninth-generation Christian Palestinian academic born in Bethlehem, and currently works at the Australian Catholic University.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Val Yule

    • Val Yule
    • 28 October 2007

    Val Yule is a writer on social issues and researcher on imagination and literacy. In the 1970s she was schools psychologist for disadvantaged Catholic schools with the Commonwealth Disadvantaged Schools Program.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Superman Returns

    • Donald Russell
    • 27 February 2007

    The new Superman movie by Brian Singer packs a punch. It retains some of the best elements of the 1970's and 80's films, and also brings the Man of the Steel up to date, or so says Donald Russell...

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Erosion of tribalism leads to Origin trouble

    • Tom Cranitch
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    What's behind the decline of State of Origin football in the northern states? Can the vitality the competition enjoyed in the 1970's ever be recaptured?

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