The Tricks of the Trade
By Dario Fo
Methuen. 224 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Acting is taken so much for granted. So much of the culture we enjoy now depends on the ability of individuals to delude us into thinking they are someone
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A unique conference
In the first week of July, hundreds of young women will be gathering again at the Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA) conference in Melbourne. The conference has been held annually since 1987, when an enterprising
Nimbin police launch 'drug war'
NIMBIN — The NSW Police Service has decided to throw money and civil rights to the wind in an effort to win the unwinnable "war against drugs".
While some police want drug abuse to be treated as a health
On June 30 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that it had no jurisdiction to decide on Portugal's challenge to the Indonesia-Australia Timor Gap Treaty. This, the court said, was because it could not decide on the nature of
By Lisa Macdonald
Three weeks after the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing at Moruroa atoll, pressure is mounting on the federal government to act in accordance with the widespread public opposition to the tests.
Not for
In by-elections in June for the Community and Public Sector Union, one of the country's largest unions, GREG ADAMSON was elected ACT assistant secretary on the ticket of CPSU Challenge. STEVE ROGERS spoke to him for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
What does
By Lisa Macdonald
The opposition among Australians to the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific is not yet translating into hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets as they did during the heyday of
Nurses' union breaks silence on mercury hazard
By Paul Jones
The June issue of the Australian Nursing Federation's journal, the Australian Nursing Journal, (carries a full page article by Dianne Lacroix titled "The danger of mercury
Moruroa — The Big Secret
The Cutting Edge
SBS, Wednesday, July 5, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
This documentary, made in 1993 by a group of French, Tahitian and Australian film makers, on the shelf until now, has
Kath Gelber
"Identity" in the gay and lesbian community means many different things. It includes the personal identification of same sex desire, a process of realisation and recognition of a desire which challenges dominant sexual norms.
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE The Queer Collaborations conference — organised by and for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenderists and their supporters — will be held here July 10-14.
Cameron Cutts, a member of the conference organising
Socialists call for 'people before profit'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central, Zanny Begg, called for the creation of "a new kind of government based on putting the interests of
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