Culture

  • Chosen by the listeners

    Chosen by the listeners 4ZZZ Hot 100Through Shock Records Review by Mike Byrne and Lynda Hansen BRISBANE — Community radio 4ZZZ was born 23 years ago, the first FM station in Queensland. Stations like 4ZZZ were set up from funding from the

  • An apt ALP hero for the times

    An apt ALP hero for the times Nice TryBy Shane MaloneyText Publishing, 1998. 312 pp., $19.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Murray Whelan, senior adviser to the Labor minister for water supply and the arts, is in more trouble than Mandrake again.

  • 'I won't stop fighting until I'm dying'

    The Peace Arch Concerts and Freedom Train and the Welsh Transatlantic ConcertsPaul RobesonFolk Era RecordsSend US$20 each to 705 South Washington St, Naperville, Illinois 60540, USA Reviewed by Barry Healy In 1925, a young black man in New York

  • Left on-line

    Left on-line Voice of Guatemala — An interview with Josi Solis Jordan who has been charged by the US government with "conspiracy to overthrow the government of the United States" and faces 25 years in a federal prison if convicted. At

  • Koori Radio live and deadly

    SYDNEY — Black is back loud and proud on Koori Radio 96.9FM. The Australian Broadcasting Authority has granted Gadigal Information Services a four-week test transmission licence from April 19 to May 18, so Koori Radio is back on

  • Song: The slimy Patrick's scab

    The slimy Patrick's scab Words by Geoff Francis & Peter Hicks Tune: works well with "The Sydney Market Boys" — or try your own!We are pleased to donate this song to assist the MUA in their struggle. Please use it widely and pass it on. If

  • Poem: MUA vs NFF

    MUA vs NFF The day the Australian government sacked its maritime workers andreplaced them with farmers was the same day it sacked allof its poets and replaced them with sub-editors, itsfootballers with swimmers, its jockeyswith tag-wrestlers (the

  • From ignorance to understanding

    From ignorance to understanding RefugeBy Libby GleesonPuffin Books, 1998. $11.95 Review by Kieran Bowtell Award-winning children's novelist Libby Gleeson did not set out to write her most recent book about East Timor or Timorese refugees. Refuge

  • Ironic treatment of Bosnian terror

    Ironic treatment of Bosnian terror Clark in SarajevoBy Catherine ZimdahlDirected by Ros HorinStables Theatre, SydneyUntil May 17 Review by Brendan Doyle When people start pointing guns at each other, I usually want to go home. Even when the

  • Poem: Those Whales of Wharfies

    Those Whales of Wharfies The wharfies are powers of men whose strain of hard fought gains isculling the flock.In fact those blokes are whales of males who have seen the tide turnedWebb and dock. Cranes, and craniums,Cargo holds and crusty

  • For all who need a laugh

    Jimmy and Pat meet the QueenBy Pat Lowe and Jimmy PikeBackroom Press, 1997 Desert DogBy Pat Lowe and Jimmy PikeMagabala Books, 1997 Review by Stephen Langford I have waited before writing this, partly because my usual "thing" is East Timor, partly

  • Poem: A Resourceful Minister

    A Resourceful Minister I am a sharecropper,harvesting richesthat others create.Divvying spoils.filling pockets,bodyswerving taxes ... I am happy as a pigin shit.My snout sodeep in the troughI may choke onmy own greed ... But when all is saidand