If you like sci-fi movies with a gentle, slightly mystical feel, this film is worth your time, as long as you don't expect any politics, writes Barry Healy.
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Koalas doomed by ‘she’ll be right mate’ syndrome
The PM has announced a funding package to boost the koala's long-term protection and recovery efforts. But, as Binoy Kampmark argues this avoids the two major causes for its population dwindling: climate change and habitat destruction through other means.
Sudan: Where people make history every day
Sudan is now effectively ruled by two competing and irreconcilable centres of power: the military and the grassroots democracy movement, reports Sam Wainwright.
Women march for equal rights
Two hundred people took part in the International Women’s Day protest organised by Hunter Workers' Women's Committee. Kathy Fairfax reports.
Newcastle says ‘no’ to nuclear submarines
Newcastle City Council declared Newcastle nuclear free in 1982, a commitment locals say they will insist on as the federal government looks for a site for its nuclear-powered submarine base. Kathy Fairfax reports.
Nuclear facilities targeted in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Several nuclear facilities in Ukraine have been attacked by the Russian military over the past fortnight — a nuclear research facility, two radioactive waste storage sites, the Chernobyl nuclear site, and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, reports Jim Green.
Kumanjayi Walker’s family: ‘Keep fighting for justice’
The family of Kumanjayi Walker and Yuendumu Elders condemned the not guilty verdict, handed down by the jury, in the murder trial of police officer Zachary Rolfe on March 11. Kumanjayi Walker was killed on November 9, 2019 in Yuendumu, a town with a population of less...
Protesters ‘take back Oxford Street’ for Mardi Gras
Several hundred protesters marched down Oxford Street in Sydney on March 5 to celebrate the LGBTI community and to protest the Religious Discrimination Bill and the corporatisation of Mardi Gras. The rally began at Taylor Square and ended with a dance party at Hyde...
Morrison’s ‘arc of autocracy’ or arch hypocrisy?
The rules-based order so admired by the Morrison government has a certain confected aura about it argues William Briggs. In fact, the first of these rules is that the US rules.
Pat O’Shane speaks about a lifetime of defiance at IWD
Pat O’Shane told a packed-out International Women’s Day celebration in Cairns about her lifetime of defiance against racism and authorities. Alex Bainbridge reports.
Anthony Albanese says he’s ‘more like John Howard’?
Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese has described himself as “more Hawke or Howard and less Shorten”. Holy shit, writes Pat O'Shane.
Oscar Wilde’s fight to decriminalise homosexuality beamed on former prison wall
Oscar Wilde’s poetry, life and battle against homophobia featured as part of Sydney Living Museum's Mardi Gras, ‘After Dark’ event, writes Rachel Evans.