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
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ADELAIDE — The South Australian government's Police Complaints Authority recorded 1133 complaints in the past financial year, an increase of almost 30% on the 1992-93 total. The most common complaints were demeanour, use of physical measures,
Bougainville support
By Michael Unger
ADELAIDE — The Bougainville Action Group (BAG) celebrated the anniversary of Bougainville's 1975 declaration of independence on September 1 with a stall outside the Commonwealth Building in Currie
By Ana Kailis
BRISBANE — On September 1, a picket was held here as part of the National Forest Day of Action. Organised by the Wilderness Society, it marked the beginning of a campaign calling on the federal government immediately to place a
by Tom Kelly
Delegates to the ALP national conference later this month are being lobbied intensely on uranium mining policy by both pro- and anti-mining forces. The fact that the conference decision could well end Labor's existing three mines
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
Rainbows
By Brandon Astor Jones
Let our colours blend.
Soon, without delay.
For each other we must fend;
Let our colours blend.
In hate many hearts tear and rend;
Avariciousness does not pay.
Let our colours blend.
Soon —
By Juan Antonio Blanco
In the last few days, in relation to the repeated incidents with terrorists, kidnappings of ships with hostages — old people and children among them — heading to Florida, a situation of particular tension between the
Wollongong Uni protests
WOLLONGONG — Wollongong University students are to hold a day of action on September 7 to protest against the federal government decision that allows universities to charge full up-front fees for students undertaking
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
How should the student left respond to the escalation of attacks on university student rights and education? Sydney University Resistance activist MARINA CARMAN argues that the focus must be mobilising and organising an increasing number of students
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,
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