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