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Hip high priest of free-funk

Message from HomePharoah SandersVerve through PolygramReviewed by Norm Dixon This album shows Pharoah Sanders — Coltrane's cosmic, Afrocentric fellow traveller — is at 57 as cool and relevant as ever. Message from Home places Sanders squarely in

and ain't i a woman: No return to the bad old '50s

No return to the bad old '50s The abolition of the operational subsidies for centre-based long day care announced in last week's budget is a direct and vicious attack, not just on working mothers, but on the majority of women. Already, parents

'If we don't fight, we lose'

The following is abridged from a speech by Tom Hagan on behalf of TAFE Students Against Slave Wages to the August 19 trade union protest in Perth. Hagan is a member of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the socialist youth organisation

CPSU members stop work

On August 23, members of the Community and Public Sector Union participated in nationwide stop-work meetings to decide the next steps in the union's campaign against the federal government's cuts to the public service. A motion put by the union's

The oil crunch: coming sooner than you think

The oil crunch: coming sooner than you think By Ted Trainer The leading energy research organisation Petroconsultants has issued new estimates of remaining world oil supplies. It comes to more disturbing conclusions than previous reports, finding

Indigenous resistance rally

Indigenous resistance rally By Jonathan Strauss SYDNEY — A quickly organised Indigenous Resistance Rally attracted more than 1000 people to Hyde Park on August 18. The rally called for a strong and unified stand against the Howard government's

Anger at pro-business Tasmanian budget

By Natalie Woodlock HOBART — The minority Rundle Liberal government's first budget, which advocates deep cuts to public services, has been passed with the support of the Greens. Labor voted against it and pushed for amendments, though stating it

Varied program for NSW literary festival

SYDNEY — The NSW Writers' Centre will host its annual literary festival, Spring Writing, on September 7-8. This year the festival will welcome international guests, Balmain writers, regional Australian writers, writers from non-English backgrounds

Radio highlights

International Voices: Wadhi Saadeh — Saadeh, from Lebanon, reads a selection of his poems to the live accompaniment of traditional musical instruments: "I try to give life to those who have died in a terrible war in Lebanon, or those people who

30th anniversary of the struggle for land rights

By Sally Mitchell DARWIN — August 23 was the 30th anniversary of the beginning of a struggle which ultimately forced the Australian government to recognise and legislate for Aboriginal rights to land. In 1966 at Wave Hill cattle station 200

High school strike gathers momentum

By Natasha Simons High school student groups and Resistance in all states except Tasmania are stepping up preparations this week for a national high school strike. The strike will be held on August 29 so that high school students can join the

Uncooking the nuclear books

Wings of Death: Nuclear Pollution and Human HealthBy Chris BusbyGreen Audit Books, Green Audit (Wales) Ltd, 1995340pp., £10.99Reviewed by Dot Tumney This book provides valuable ammunition for attacking the nuclear apologist on several fronts.