Dundunbanza!
Sierra Maestra
World Circuit through Larrikin Entertainment
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
As the Adelaide WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) festival approaches, world music enthusiasts are licking their lips at the prospect of some of
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Pro-woodchipping rally
By Anthony Brown
PERTH — Some 1500 people, mostly timber workers and families from the state's south-west, attended a rally in the city centre on January 30. The rally, organised by the pro-woodchipping Forest
Union takes anti-woodchipping stand
The construction division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has distanced itself from the recent activities of the union's forestry division in the woodchip debate.
Martin
All in the game
"It's like treasurers lying about budgets. There are some things you're allowed to be slightly dishonest about in politics without giving away the game." — Former NSW Liberal police minister Terry Griffiths, explaining why Liberal
By Michal Schwartz
Recurrent Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers stationed at the military checkpoint near Netzarim in the northern Gaza Strip have raised the question of whether or not the settlement should be evacuated. The killing of
Public tenants union fights privatisation
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — Late last month the Kennett government defunded the Public Tenants Union (PTU) by putting the funding traditionally available to it up for tender.
The bulk of the
Bligh campaign
Well-known lesbian and community activist, Susan Harben, has announced her candidacy for the ALP for the inner Sydney seat of Bligh, the "pinkest" seat in Australia. The seat is currently held by independent, Clover Moore, who has
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
By Doris Lessing
Harper Collins, 1994. 419 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
To read Doris Lessing is to struggle between being unable to put the book down and wanting to
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program, every Friday at 10.30pm. This week's program is a documentary on the history of women's liberation. Guests include Nadia Stani and Francis Peters, who discuss women's
By Phil Shannon
A recent radio phone-in on the ABC on "Has Political Correctness (PC) gone too far?" had all callers agreeing that it had. They lamented that certain kinds of jokes can not be told without the teller being accused of being a
Hundreds of students at the Australian National University occupied the chancellery building for nine days last September in a battle to prevent the introduction of up-front fees for a postgraduate legal course. This struggle led to the holding of a
By Lisa Macdonald
The blockade of Parliament House in Canberra by 4000 timber workers has narrowed the terms of the export woodchipping licence debate to a question of "jobs versus environment". Yet all of the available information on employment
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