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Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based non government organisation that works with slum dwellers, commissioned Melbourne photographer Ian Woolverton to create a photo essay of scenes from Mumbai. Eureka Street presents a selection of images from this powerful essay.
The Black Balloon's early '90s suburban locale is a tangible and familiar environment, where intolerance and ignorance brood beneath the surface. Lead actor Rhys Wakefield embodies everything that it is to be a teenager on the brink of adulthood.
The onset of blue-green algae caused the Murray's smell to change from rank to fetid. Halting the damage to the Murray-Darling basin is essential to our financial survival, yet it may be that it is impossible to stop the damage without also causing critical economic damage. — Eureka Street, March 1993
The new biography of former South Australian Governor Dame Roma Mitchell paints a picture of a tenacious, committed woman, supported by her strong Catholic faith, but willing to challenge and explore any doctrine that stifled people's (and particularly women's) right to make choices about their lives.
Elite sportspeople are often lauded by the Prime Minister. But we need to go back to the Whitlam era to find a government that has actively and significantly supported writers and other artists.
A primary objective of terrorism is to engender disproportionate fear in the community, and to act as a catalyst for negative changes. Terrorists can therefore be highly effective without having to undertake terrorism operations.
The director of a new Australian film on the migration experience depicts the resilience of childhood. He also aims to evoke from his audience a degree of compassion for a difficult, struggling mother.
World literature is much richer for the input of Italian Andrea Camilleri, Australian Peter Corris and Scot Ian Rankin. They have mastered the art of presenting modern characters in contemporary situations.
Knight to remember, baulking at the rail, star-gazing voyager and sour grapes.
Lucille Hughes discusses the state of the Australian film industry
Radhika Gorur reviews Brigid Hains’ The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier.
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