BRISBANE — "Year after year we keep saying the same things to the government — Aboriginal people want a chance!", Sam Watson of the Aboriginal Legal Service told a rally of 150 people here on January 26, Invasion Day. Other speakers included
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Disclosure
Directed by Barry Levinson
Written by Paul Attanasio (based on the novel by Michael Crichton)
Starring Demi Moore and Michael Douglas
Reviewed by Karen Fletcher
Backlash films certainly get the blood boiling, but they are also
Sinead and the Famine
Universal Mother
Sinead O'Connor
Ensign
Reviewed by Tyrion Perkins
Sinead O'Connor's latest album begins with Germaine Greer speaking about women making politics irrelevant by a spontaneous cooperative action.
By Alex Bainbridge
— Several unions have threatened to withdraw election funding to the ALP head office unless it agrees to hold a rank and file preselection ballot for the seat of Peats, on the central coast of NSW.
Peats became vacant
By Stephen Marks
HAVANA — 1995 has been declared the International Year of Jos‚ Mart¡ and October 8 the possible date of a World Day in Solidarity with Cuba. These were among proposals adopted by the plenary session of the World Conference in
NOAM CHOMSKY's January 19 press conference in Sydney covered a range of topics. JOHN TOGNOLINI, who covered the conference for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly and Radio Skid Row, here provides excerpts from Chomsky's answers to a number of questions. Chomsky
By Faruk Avdi
MELBOURNE — "Sustainable forestry — has come to mean the sustenance of a small number of large timber corporations involved in the chipping and pulpwood sectors ... a principal theme of the industry to preserve — or 'sustain'
A blend of echoes
Echoes Under the Bridge: new world music from BEMAC
Reviewed by Robyn Marshall
This is a new CD from BEMAC, Brisbane's ethnic music centre, the result of a residency and workshops led by Lindsey Pollak over a four-month
ALP and Lenin
It is good that Jim McIlroy (GLW 171) has conceded that working in the ALP may be of some use, even if it is to be a "subsidiary tactic".
The use of an article written [by Lenin] in 1916 to resolve a tactical question in 1995
Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives
Edited by Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan
Pluto Press, 1994. 368 pp.
Reviewed by Bernie Brian
All of the articles in this collection were first presented at the "Suffrage and
St Kilda Writers Festival
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — The beachside suburb of St Kilda is well known for its bohemian, slightly seedy atmosphere and associated in the popular mind with the artistic and eccentric. It seems a logical
By Dr Chesterfield-Evans
Probably the most significant paper at the 9th World Conference on Smoking and Health, held in Paris October 10-14, was the presentation by Richard Peto of the latest results of the study of smoking and death rates in
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