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  1. The A-B-C of public broadcasting

    commercial radio stations. The ABC modelled itself on its big imperial brother, the BBC. The tone was ... patrician, the accents upper class "BBC English". There were no women's voices, young people ... children's programs. Youth were given their own FM rock station in 1974. Current affairs programs on Radio ...

  2. Marr investigates panic in Australia

    Panic. 鈥淚t鈥檚 so Australian,鈥 says the dejected journalist, David Marr in his book of essays on the rise, ... Federation鈥, and subsequent alarms about German spies in World War I, Wobblies and Reds in the 1920s, ... Communists in the Depression, and the Red Menace all over again after World War II have kept the scares ...

  3. Three books take up Assange story

    William Heinemann, 2011 479 pages, $24.95 (pb) WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange鈥檚 War on Secrecy By David ... and Harding endorse Assange鈥檚 鈥渓ifting the lid on two immensely controversial wars鈥 in Afghanistan and ... computer underground which generally frowned on the malicious or profit-motivated hacker. The hackers, say ...

  4. Koestler 鈥 from anti-Stalinist to pro-capitalist

    against Franco's fascists in the Spanish civil war; as a Jew, he escaped from the Gestapo in France ... 1970s books on parapsychology. Michael Scammell's biography of Koestler explores a man born in ... the German Communist Party as a writer and polemicist. He waxed lyrical on turbines and tractors ...

  5. The life of woman who shot Mussolini

    pages, $32.99 (pb) The Honourable Violet Gibson was not like the other women of the Anglo-Irish elite ... the fascist dictator in Italy in April 1926 and shot him in the nose. Frances Saunders' book on ... before settling on a life of 鈥渃harity and prayer鈥 as a reform-minded Catholic. A pacifist opposed to ...

  6. A comic of the tragedy of working life

    a semi-professional music hall family, Hancock got hooked early on the thrill of making people laugh. He served his ... Alan Simpson. They combined to produce his greatest achievement, Hancock's Half Hour, on radio and ... poverty and rationing after the war, and was a rebuttal to the Tory Prime Minister, Harold ...

  7. Bastards, the lot of them

    creationists, Holocaust Deniers, citizenship tests, War on Terror fridge magnets, management jargon, fake Irish ... culture wars. Their elites are not the people with "rich, influential parents", but academics, ... corner of bastardry (exploiting the images of semi-naked women) not explored by the former editor of the ...

  8. Three men of the left

    service of working men and women鈥 by setting up a left-wing law practice, taking on workplace injury ... university鈥檚 role in the Vietnam War. All Along the Watchtower is Hyde鈥檚 spirited memoir of his youth. It ... with the war machine and the capitalist system that spawned it. Hyde鈥檚 political journey took in the ...

  9. Fisk 鈥 the journalist who asked 'Why'

    men, women and children on his hands", reminds Fisk of another pompous war criminal, "a ... massacres and torture performed by "our side" in the war for the Middle East. Above all, while the ... cities, we will bomb yours". Thus, says Fisk of bin Laden's horrific answer, on 7 July 2005, ...

  10. The power of ordinary solidarity

    $24.99 (pb) When Donna Mulhearn heard a former US marine on Triple J radio in January 2003 appealing for ... Iraq. Although the human shields got on each others' nerves and bickered, as any collection of ... among them, contrary to what the Western media and governments alleged. To say that opponents of the war ...

  11. Moore recounts a trouble-making history

    on Abraham Lincoln and the civil war that ended slavery, Moore attacked the contest鈥檚 sponsor, the ... can鈥檛 women become priests. As Moore had to be reminded by Church authorities, 鈥測ou either have to ... a reluctant Moore declined an appearance on national TV 鈥 鈥渢here wasn鈥檛 enough Clearasil in the world to get ...

  12. Tarzan, a colonial symbol of bigotry

    World War I in an early Tarzan book, but by having it done by a man who, though white, was barely above ... Clayton, the son of Lord and Lady Greystoke who were abandoned by mutineers on the African coast, was ... in the British empire鈥檚 wars (鈥渢he noblest monument of historic achievement upon a thousand ...

  13. The people who ended 'Jim Crow'

    Black Women's Political Council organised the fliers, Black preachers spread the word on the Sunday ... On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks 鈥 as she had done many times before 鈥 caught ... years I'd known on the buses in Montgomery." Her arrest, for she had broken a municipal ...

  14. Steaming along the tracks of revolution

    based on Fedor ('Artem') Sergeyev, a Bolshevik who escaped from exile in Siberia after the ... provocateur, and the Queensland police) try to stitch him up on a murder charge. His beatings in Boggo Road ... escaped class warfare. Neither, notes a fiercely anti-war Samsurov, has the existence of a national Labor ...

  15. Murdoch's power exposed in McKnight book, but others let off hook

    and journalists鈥 with direct edicts on how to report the war. The Murdoch media presented non-existent ... (especially on wars) or have restricted debate to narrow limits (especially on climate change). It is also the ... Murdoch. David McKnight reveals the extent of Murdoch鈥檚 influence on governments in Britain, US and ...

  16. The criminal tale of Monsanto

    on, Roundup, Monsanto's herbicide with the real miracle; gigantic profits. GMOs and Roundup, says ... Vietnam's crops, forests and people during the Vietnam War. The toxicity of 2,4,5-T was denied by Monsanto, ... claiming dioxin was not carcinogenic. Bovine growth hormone (BGH) was a variation on the same theme. BGH is ...

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