Archive for February, 2005

ANARCON 05

Monday, February 28th, 2005

This weekend I have been at ANARCON: the fifth Anarchist and Autonomist Conference (http://www.anarcon.org/) held at CERES (http://www.ceres.org.au/) on the banks of the Merri Creek in Brunswick.

We were lucky with the weather as Melbourne turned on two of its rare but beautiful sunny late summer days. CERES is a beautiful spot: an example of […]

50 Australian Novels with Overt Political Content

Thursday, February 24th, 2005

Not in order of preference…

Jean Devanny: Sugar Heaven 1936 (Vulgar Press scholarly edition 2002) Dorothy Hewett: Bobbin Up 1959 (Vulgar Press edition 1999) Amanda Lohrey: The Morality of Gentlemen (1984) Frank Hardy: Power Without Glory (1950) David Ireland: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner (1971) Katharine Susannah Prichard: Working Bullocks (1927) Rosa Capiella: Paese Fortunato (1982), O Lucky Country (English Trans 1984) Melissa Lucashenko: […]