UNITED STATES: Skipping the ads to be illegal
The new Intellectual Property Protection Act currently before US Congress, has some strange provisions. Among them, is a provision to differentiate between the legal activity of fast-forwarding
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Message Stick: Child Artists of Carrolup — Indigenous children discover and excel at art at the Carrolup School of Western Australia in 1945. ABC, Friday, December 3, 6pm.
Family Story: Wyrria, Small Boy — Explores the daily realities of a
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REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON
"Writing songs about the war is like throwing peanuts at a gorilla", Tom Waits told the Los Angeles Times in August. "But then I think, look how important soul music was during
SYDNEY — On November 23, Zanny Begg was stopped by police while installing a work, Checkpoint, for the Blacktown Art Gallery's "Out of Gallery" project.
Begg explained that she was "creating 10 'checkpoints' for 'weapons of mass distraction' in
Solidarity and union spirit were on display on November 25, as 6000 unionists gathered outside the State Library to protest the jailing of former Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) Victorian secretary Craig Johnston and the increasing criminalisation of trade union struggle.
The rally called for Johnston's immediate release and the start of a fight-back campaign against PM John Howard's reactionary agenda.