Category Archives: Film

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ASIO : Persons of Interest : Interview with director Haydn Keenan

PERSONS OF INTEREST – Trailer from Smart Street Films on Vimeo. Tonight on ‘The SUWA Show’ (5.30pm, 855AM, streaming at 3CR.org.au), Dr Cam & I have a chat with Haydn Keenan, the director of ‘Persons of Interest’, a new documentary … Continue reading

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ASIO is really interesting to this person too …

Persons of Interest is a three-part documentary on ASIO which commences screening on SBS on Tuesday, January 7 at 8.30pm. I haven’t seen it yet but Dr Cam and I interviewed filmmaker Haydn Keenan (and academic Victoria Stead about PNG … Continue reading

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Mick Armstrong on Melbourne G20 protests, November 2006 [A Blast From The Past]

Yo Gabba Gabba wrote me to say he couldn’t find Socialist Alternative leader Mick Armstrong’s statement in response to a disturbance at an anti-G20 rally in Melbourne in November 2006. Given also the recent stoopid regarding the G20 meeting in … Continue reading

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Pay the Writers?

Well this post is really only a matter of recording some bookmarks … I didn’t realise this ’til now, but Crikey owner Private Media are launching a new arts site. Good for them. Problem is, current policy is not to … Continue reading

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Stella Artois : She is a thing

What with all the excitement over the fabulous redecoration (above) of the Tory Party’s hateful and deceitful billboard about asylum seekers I was naturally drawn to the Billboard Liberation Front website. There I came across the Stella Artois advertisement. Y’know, … Continue reading

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Guilt &/Or Innocence of Muslims in Sydney and Melbourne

Uh-oh spaghetti-oh. Mountains of virtual blah, political fallout and some further arrests has been generated by the ding-dong in Sydney on the weekend. The Minister for Immigration’s declaration that foreign-born trouble-makers could be deported if found guilty of unnamed crimes … Continue reading

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Cosmic Psychos documentary is pozible?

Matt Weston is looking for funding for a documentary film about Melbourne band the Cosmic Psychos. He needs to raise $28,000 by the end of August. Do yourselves a favour and pledge your support on pozible.

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Public forum on austerity and resistance in Greece : Thursday, March 29, 2012

Next Thursday night in Northcote there will be a forum to discuss the Greek debt crisis, the imposition of austerity measures and popular resistance. There will be speakers, music, film and poetry, and all proceeds will be used to aid … Continue reading

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Okupación : Film screening, Wednesday, March 14, 2012

“¡Oye!” This Wednesday, March 14 a new documentary film will be screening at the Melbourne Anarchist Club (62 St Georges Rd, Northcote). Called Okupación, the 80-minute film documents contemporary social struggles in Spain for housing and public space. Filmmaker Chris … Continue reading

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Richard Wolstencroft @ Melbourne Free University

Or; Fascism &/Or Libertarianism… On Thursday March 1, local filmmaker and “transcendental fascist” Richard Wolstencroft will be speaking as part of the Melbourne Free University’s program ‘Controversies On Film’: Week 3: 1.3.2012 Richard Wolstencroft, Australian Filmmaker and Festival Director Plenty … Continue reading

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