The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H. G. Wells
By Michael Coren
Bloomsbury, 1994. 240 pp., $16.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
H.G. Wells, author of best-selling science fiction novels, was not much taken with Vladimir Lenin: "a
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By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Clinton changes
Muse Sick-n-hour Mess Age
Public Enemy
Polygram
Reviewed by Jean-Paul Nassif
An attempted murder charge and a debilitating crack-cocaine addiction are what Chuck D's (lead vocalist of Public Enemy) clock-wearing comic relief sidekick
By Norm Dixon
AUCKLAND — In the wake of the resignation of Jim Anderton, leader of the New Zealand Alliance and the country's most popular parliamentarian, the five-party Alliance has begun far-reaching organisational changes and policy
By Max Anderson
LONDON — Thirty thousand university students marched in the pouring rain from Battersea Park in South London to Hyde Park on November 9, to protest against cuts in student grants and university budgets.
Not content with
By Peter Montague
Environmental racism is the selective exposure of racial subgroups to dangerous toxins. It happens all the time.
The clearest example is lead. For at least 40 years, the children of blacks and Hispanics in the USA have
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ is not only a newspaper. We do not choose what we cover in the same way that the establishment press does. We do not seek to sensationalise, or to exploit subjects. For 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳, reporting is an act of solidarity.
So it is with the
Better than an inquiry
"Almost two years after the NFPS [National Forest Policy Statement] was signed by all States, except Tasmania, not one area of forest has been protected, but many important areas of forests have been logged." — Letter from
By Diana Rickard
DARWIN — At the beginning of November, I spent two and a half days supporting a friend in court who had sustained a wound on the back of his head while being pursued by an overzealous young policeman carrying a regulation
By Wendy Robertson
The thousands-strong protests in Dili and the 29 East Timorese students occupying the US Embassy in Jakarta have again focused international attention on the plight of the East Timorese under Indonesian occupation. This
Parliament locks out MPs
By Ray Smith
HOBART — The speaker of state parliament, Graeme Page, will introduce legislation in the new year to protect members of parliament from their constituents.
This follows an embarrassing incident
International Playhouse — The House by the River — By Barbara Sapergia. It's a custom at funerals not to say anything bad about the departed, publicly at least. But afterwards? Allison Ransome takes her chances and turns up at her own wake. A
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