Long Way Down is a television series, book and DVD documenting a motorcycle journey undertaken by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, on which they rode south through 18… Read More »Movie Night: The Long Way Down. Wednesday 5th
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East… Read More »Movie Night: Balibo. Wednesday 21st
“The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prison” – Fyodor Dostoevsky In this report the Edmund Rice Centre in… Read More »Prisoners Rights are Human Rights
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner uses reports by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and The Omnivore’s Dilemma author Michael Pollan as a springboard to exploring where the food… Read More »Movie Night: Food Inc. Wednesday 7th
You may have heard allot of buzz around Palm Oil in the last few weeks. Greenpeace has had over half a million you tube views… Read More »Palm Oil? What’s it all about
Recently, and to the surprise of many New Zealanders, John Key announced that the Government would be considering plans to allow a return to commercial… Read More »Stop Commercial Whaling
Every 4 years each of the 192 member country’s of the United Nations are examined under a system called the the Universal Periodic Review. The review rigorously looks at many of society operations in light of the 1946 post WW2 agreement on Human Rights. It also gives the opportunities for U.N. members and NGO’s to comment in an open forum about the findings in the report.
