The White BalloonDirected by Jafar PanahiScreenplay by Abbas KiarostamiOpening at Dendy cinemas August 29Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson The delight of this feature film from Tehran is the way it takes a very simple story — the trepidations of a
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By Natal Banks
HOBART — The destruction of old growth, wilderness and high conservation value forest for woodchips continues despite public outrage. Multinational company Boral Ltd. plays a major part in obliterating these forests. On June 27,
Women's right to choose under attack
By Tuntuni Bhattacharyya
There is a stealthy war being waged against women in Australia, a war that threatens to erode most of the reproductive rights and choices that women have won in past years. The first
In July, Tom Sherman's preliminary evaluation of evidence about the deaths of five journalists at Balibo in East Timor in October 1975 was presented to the Australian government. It concluded that the Indonesian military was probably responsible for
By Marina Cameron
"The suddenness with which a goods and services tax has regained respectability is remarkable", wrote Michael James, from the ANU's Faculty of Economic and Commerce, in the August 15 Financial Review. Only the day before, the
By Pip Hinman and Sally Mitchell
The government's decision to slash the budget of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) is petty and racist. In national monetary terms, the government's "saving" of $400 million over the next
30-year battle to ban the burn
1965: Waverley and Woollahra councils apply to build an incinerator in Botany Road, Waterloo. The City of Sydney Council refuses the application.
1966: The case goes to the Land and Valuation Court. The incinerator
"... the signs are ominous and very evident and a chill wind blows". US Supreme Court Justice Blackman expressed his concern when, in July 1989, the Supreme Court (stacked with Ronald Reagan appointees) upheld a Missouri state law banning the
Cuban rightist: US could have saved plane
Jose Basulto, leader of the right-wing Miami-based organisation "Brothers to the Rescue", gave a press conference at the US House of Representatives on July 31 and handed over documents suggesting that US
A listen mission
"Were we not so eager to look upon prisoners through such a vengeful prism, it would be easier to see the abundance of remorse in prison." — Irving Elmer Bell
So then, I wish to speak for those of us who have changed
Remorse
By Amanda Day
MELBOURNE — On August 16, a larger than expected contingent of 1000 secondary students rallied against the federal government's proposals to slash education and associated funding in the up-coming budget. Early estimates indicate
Sand mining operations opposed
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Conservationists rallied on North Stradbroke Island on August 18 to call for an end to sand mining operations, in the face of allegations that the company involved, Consolidated Rutile
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