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  • International Women's Day Song 1997

    International Women's Day Song 1997Hey sisters take to the streetsIt's International Women's DaySee the strength in you, the strength in meCelebrate our diversity. Hey sisters sing out loudGutsy aunts have shown the

  • Reforming bad ideology from within

    The Unconscious CivilisationABC Massey LecturesBy John Ralston SaulPenguin, 1995. 208 pp.A Truly Civil SocietyBoyer LecturesBy Eva CoxABC in booklet form or from the ABC web site. Review by Gerry Harant Since their broadcast on the ABC, a book

  • Poem: Chain Gang

    Poem: Chain Gang Chain Gang Work for the dolewell "Bless my sole"what an interesting idea.You would have thoughtthat someone oughtto have thoughtof thatbefore this year. Didn't they try to do it in 1929?Wasn't it then the susso

  • Brothers

    Brothers to Us: The Story of a Remarkable Family's Fight Against ApartheidBy Kristin Williamson (with a foreword by John Pilger)Viking, 1997. 344 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Rugby, some claim, is the game played in Heaven, but for

  • When Darwin's bulldog became a lap-dog

    Huxley: Evolution's High PriestBy Adrian DesmondMichael Joseph, 1997. 370 pp., $40 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon Thomas Huxley was "Darwin's Bulldog", a brilliant scientist and fearless propagandist for Darwin's theory of evolution. Whereas

  • Hamlet's better half isn't nearly enough

    HamletDirected by Kenneth Branagh Review by John Tognolini Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet is the 60th film version of Shakespeare's classic story of murder, revenge, madness, incest and abuse of power. Seeing the two-hour version makes me want to see

  • A child of poverty in modern Iran

    A child of poverty in modern Iran A True StoryDirected by Abolfazi JaliliSydney Film Festival Review by Brendan Doyle There are films that stay with you long after the screening. For me, this tiny-budget, hardly edited and atrociously

  • Jose Marti Cultural Evening

    José Martí Cultural Evening @box text intro = FREMANTLE — On June 15, more than 150 people gathered at the third José Martí Cultural Evening, organised by the Australia Cuba Friendship Society and Committees in

  • A future we can do without

    Reforming Australia's UnionsEdited by Michael Costa and Mark HearnFederation Press, 1997.290pp., $24.95(pb) Review by James Vassilopoulos With the ALP's Prices and Incomes Accord now dead, it's easy to be sceptical about it, to express concern

  • Poem: The one eyed nun from hell

    The one eyed nun from hell The one eyed nun from hell The Beyond Dependency Conference in New Zealand The one eyed nun from hellhas come down here to tellus,how to slash the dole,how to sear the soul,how to thrash the poorand

  • Pagans at Brendan Behan

    Pagans at Brendan Behan @box text intro = SYDNEY — The Born Again Pagans will be launching a new CD on Thursday, June 26, from 8 to 10pm, at the Brendan Behan Hotel (formerly the Britannia) in Cleveland Street, Chippendale. An occasion not to

  • Brisbane's Solstice Festival

    Brisbane's Solstice FestivalBRISBANE — The city's third Winter Solstice Festival took place over the June 6-9 long weekend. The festival is described by its organisers, the Queensland Folk Federation, as demonstrating a