Folk for instruments
Fiddling Around
Kilmarnock
Produced by Henk de Weerd
Recorded by Ian Coulls
Hard Yacka Records and 5EBI-FM
Reviewed by Gail Lord
Larrikin has announced a new distribution agreement for the Adelaide-based Hard
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Unbalancing act
It could be the start of a science fiction story; record floods in Europe, massive forest fires in America and Australia, unheard of drought in the North American prairies (over now), prolonged drought in Australia. Measurable
Regular readers will be aware of the running advertisement for Feminism and Socialism: Putting the Pieces Together. What you may not know, however, is that this is the most popular of Green Left's ads, based on the mail order response of readers.
Woodside sacks 429
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Woodside Offshore Petroleum sacked 429 workers on February 28. One hundred and forty were from the work force of 500 at Karratha and the rest from the Perth-based staff.
Sixty-five of
Kennett's party votes him 'innocent'
By Karl Miller
Melbourne — Eighteen months ago, Victorians voted the Liberal Party, led by Jeff Kennett, into state government. Labor's disastrous record allowed the Liberals to win merely by claiming
By Frank Enright
"My eyes turned toward Panguna on the right. I was almost shocked by the size of the crater; it was kilometers wide! Entire villages and gardens, mountains, traditions and memories had been dug out and replaced by an enormous
Mugger sues victim
Less than one month after the decision by the Clinton administration to lift its trade embargo against Vietnam, the US State Department announced on March 1 that it is seeking compensation from Cambodia and Vietnam for
By Maree Sutton
A survey by the Australian Youth Institute, a private think-tank funded by Pepsi Cola and Arthur Andersen & Co, hit the headlines last week with claims that young people support some type of work for the dole.
While the
The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia
By Frank Cain
Spectrum Publications, 1993. 300 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Every radical lefty's heart has a soft spot for the Wobblies (the Industrial
Dead Heart
By Nicholas Parsons
Directed by Neil Armfield
Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
Acres of red dust trucked in from the outback set the stage for a gripping account of the clash of cultures and laws —
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