Culture

  • Privatisation: the case against

    Privatisation — Sell-off or Sell-out? The Australian Experience
    Bob Walker & Betty Con Walker
    Sydney University Press, 2008, $19.95

  • Rod Quantock celebrates 40 years

    Rod Quantock marks his 40 years in comedy in his latest show, "First Man Standing" running until September 6 at Trades Hall, cnr Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton. In the "year of revolutions", 1968, Quantock told his first jokes to an audience and

  • On the box

    Flesh and the Devil — Looks at compulsory celibacy in the Roman Catholic priesthood, and whether there is a connection between enforced celibacy and deviant sexual behaviour. ABC, Sunday, August 25, 2.35am. Cutting Edge: Blair and Power — Tony

  • Monster Saturday against power sell-off

    On “Super Saturday” August 16, hundreds of activists across NSW will staff “Stop the Sell-Off” stalls in 50 NSW electorates. Part of the campaign to stop the state ALP government from privatising electricity, the stalls are expected to gather thousands of signatures on petitions, and promote the mass anti-privatisation rally planned for September 20, at Sydney Town Hall.

  • Venezuela: a revolution in motion

    Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Politics of the Chavez Government
    By Gregory Wilpert
    Verso, 2007
    352 pages, $49.95

  • A deeply flawed friend of Aboriginal people

    Desert Queen: The Many Lives and Loves of Daisy Bates
    By Susana de Vries
    HarperCollins, 2008
    294 pages, $33 (pb) Daisy Baites: Grand Dame of the Desert
    By Bob Reece
    National Library of Australia, 2007
    205 pages, $24.95 (pb)