Contemporary Australian Feminism 2Edited by Kate PritchardHughes Longman Australia, 1997. 352pp., $29.95 Review by Melanie Sjoberg
In my paid employment as a trade union industrial officer, I come into contact with a wide range of people. Union
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Raymond Chandler: A BiographyBy Tom HineyChatto & Windus, 1997. 310 pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon The New York Times called him "a hater of the human race". Respectable book reviewers wrote him off as a lowbrow writer of pulp
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The WellDirected by Samantha Lang Stars Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto, Paul Chubb Review by Margaret Allan Announced by the critics as the next big Australian movie, The Well is an intense film whose visual impact and well-crafted imagery
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With a Little Help from My FriendsSuzanne CloudEncounter RecordsSend US$21 to Dreambox Media, PO Box 8132, Philadelphia, PA 19101-8132 USA. Review by Norm Dixon "If you're a female singer in jazz, you're stuck with the standards, the pretty love
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Gay and lesbian rights book launchedSYDNEY — Around 40 people attended a launch of the Democratic Socialist Party's new book, Socialism and the Struggle for the Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men, on July 26. The meeting was
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Activist TV: a better viewMELBOURNE — In May, while a protest against uranium mining on native title land was occurring outside the headquarters of CRA, a swan became stranded on the nearby Princes Bridge. TV news
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A short story by Craig Cormick Rod Taylor took Tippi Hedren by the hand and carefully led her out of the house. One of the seagulls pecked viciously at his ankle. Tippi Hedren froze. But Rod kept walking. He guided her past the gulls and crows
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Crop CirclesBy Urban Theatre ProjectsThe Performance Space, Sydney from July 24, then Newcastle Uni (Aug 8), Uni of Western Sydney, Nepean (Aug 14). Info 02 9601 8011. Review by Brendan Doyle At the Performance Space in Redfern, you're always
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Factor Four: Doubling Wealth — Halving Resource UseBy Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter LovinsAllen & Unwin, 1997. 322 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Allen Myers Is there a "technological fix" to the ecological crisis?
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Brassed OffWritten and directed by Mark HermanOpens August 14 Review by James Vassilopoulos "When god created humanity he had too many bodies and not enough fuckin' brains, hearts and vocal chords. So he thought to himself, what will I do with
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The 1995 Million Man March, initiated by black nationalist leader Louis Farrakhan, which promoted the need for black men to take responsibility for their lives and families, left many, including black leader Angela Davis,
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Building the Revolutionary Party: An introduction to James P. CannonNew Course Publications, 1997100pp., $7.95 Review by Pip Hinman Full-time revolutionaries are mostly stereotyped as being narrow and dogmatic. But to read anything of James P.