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Canberra’s Luminescence Chamber Choir with Sydney’s The Australian Voices. Photo: Peter Hislop. Canberra International Music Festival / Concert 20, “Far and Near”, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Sunday, May 9. Reviewed by HELEN MUSA. THERE are few more pleasurable human experiences than sitting with other people listening to beautiful voices raised in song. So it was when Canberra’s Luminescence Chamber Choir collaborated with Sydney’s The Australian Voices to perform 11 original compositions created specifically for them, as conductor Amber Evans explained, unde...

'This is a clear barrier to justice here' Ngo came face to face with hate earlier this month when someone hurled racist slurs at him and then proceeded to throw garbage at him. "I was ... stunned and realized it could happen to anybody. Not just the elderly and those who don't know how to speak English," Ngo says. That was his turning point. He tried to report the crime on the Vancouver Police Department website but found the form was only available in simplified and traditional Chinese — not English. "East Asian doesn't mean Chinese, it also means Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, those wh...