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Raps

Bicentennial
Rap

Recorded in 1986 to build the protests at the Bicentennial celebrations in 1988.

Rough Reds

“We’re very rough, but we’re very red.” The Rough Reds – Tanya McConvell and Paris Hunter – at International Women’s Day, Canberra, 1997

Read My Lips

A rap against the US-Australian invasion of Iraq in 1991. (“Read My Lips” was a slogan from US President George Bush senior’s election campaign)

Police Rap

Part of the campaign against the frameup of two Canberra-based anti-apartheid activists, Kerry Browning and Maxwell Nemadzivhanani, from 1988.

CIA Rap

At a protest after the US bombing of Libya in 1986, Tanya objected to someone raising the slogan of “stop it both of you” – and wrote this rap as a followup.

2000 Games Rap

A rap about the First Nations protests at the Sydney Olympics in 2000

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