Word: ruralization
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...Australia elections. True, John Howard's coalition has been on a downward spiral federally, but divisions in the opposition ranks made Labor's win more emphatic. Hanson helped deliver victory to the Labor Party in Queensland by a stunning margin. One Nation won a few seats in depressed, conservative rural areas that had lost faith in the National Party but were not ready to switch to Labor...
...should one conclude that all of Hanson's backers are racists. In fact, issues other than Asians and Aborigines have been more important to Hanson's supporters. Rural Australia has been a victim of globalization and market forces. Agricultural prices have been depressed by the absurdities of world farm trade, while transport costs have been increasing. Meanwhile, small towns and farming districts have been hurt as market forces have deprived them of services from banks to buses. A large minority of Australians, especially in those rugged rural communities that are so much a part of Australia's self-image...
...Academy, are sucessors to the famous Fifth Generation of Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. But their films are worlds removed from Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine?those gorgeous parables of loss, steeped in oriental exoticism. In general, the Fifth Generation made pretty films set in the rural past; the Sixth Generation makes gritty films set in the urban present. Emperors and concubines have been replaced by the grungy malcontents of Zhang Yuan's Beijing Bastards (1993), the Sixth Generation's first major film; its anomic punksters spit out obscenities in sync sound and groove to hard rock...
Toshi Kubota always had a little bit of soul. Growing up in Japan's rural Shizuoka prefecture, where his parents still run a store near Mount Fuji, he watched Soul Train and, despite poor radio reception, strained to hear stations that played rhythm and blues...
...There was a whiff of politics amid the reek of burning carcasses. Prime Minister Tony Blair had hoped to hold local and national elections May 3, but he risks incurring the wrath of rural voters if he lets the ballot go ahead while a highly infectious disease restricts the movement of people as well as livestock. Draconian slaughter, perhaps, could contain and defeat the infection before May. But Labour's strength among rural voters, never great, had diminished over the party's drive to ban fox hunting and will plummet further with the cull. "There will be many tears...