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What is the threat? By Kath Gelber What exactly is it about women's equality that it is perceived as threatening male identity? A large US poll which has tracked social attitudes for two decades, the Yankelovich Monitor survey, has
Melbourne march By Jim Elliott and Rachel Evans MELBOURNE — Three hundred angry students attended the fifth anti-voluntary student unionism demonstration on August 31. The Student Unionism Network (SUN) organised the rally and general
Looking out: Learning & teaching By Brandon Astor Jones The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center (GDCC) is a prison situated about 50 miles south of Atlanta, the city and regional site of the 1996 Olympic Games. More than 1700 men
By Catherine Brown Only hours before the Irish Republican Army announced an "unconditional and open-ended cease-fire" on August 31, to take effect the following day, pro-British loyalist death squads declared that such an initiative would lead
Point Blank Nailbomb Roadrunner Records Reviewed by Kest Courtice Well, doesn't the name say it all? Nearly an hour of intense industrial grindcore pandemonium, played by none other than Max Cavalera (Sepultura) and Alex Newport (Fudge
Every silver lining has its cloud "... today's historic ceasefire [in northern Ireland] ... could bring a new form of trouble to the province — economic slump." — Financial Review, September 1. That settles it "For the last 15 years,
Famous poet visits By Denis Kevans Famous Japanese poet Taka Iwami visited Australia recently. Her two closest friends are Idi Maruku and Atoshi Maruku, who were the painters of the world-awakening Panels of Hiroshima. Atoshi and Idi
Sam Wainwright In early August, Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen, condemned to death by Islamic fundamentalists, arrived in Sweden where she is now sheltering. Nasreen invoked the wrath of the fundamentalists with the publication in
Mother! The Frank Zappa Story By Michael Gray Plexus, 1994. 256 pp., $35 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon When Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer in December 1993, aged just 53, the world of cultural dissent lost one of its pioneering
By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya MELBOURNE — More than 20,000 women attended the sixth International Feminist Book Fair and concurrent literary festival, held July 27-31. Three days of discussions, panel seminars, readings and storytelling made for a
That's History — The Last Big Dig — Historian Grace Karskens and a team of archaeologists have begun a major dig in Sydney's historic Rocks area. As each layer of the past is unearthed, the team hopes to evaluate the impact of the industrial
Right to Lifer By Elena Garcia You make me so angry! You claim to want to help. "Any stressed mother can come to me" you say. "Respect all life!" But where is your respect for mine? To you, a speck of my cells is more