By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — The 11th Melbourne International Comedy Festival, running March 27-April 20, was recently attacked by right-wing radio commentator Neil Mitchell as being of interest only to "wankers living in Northcote and
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Big crowds around the country attended debut screenings of There is only one word — Resist!, a documentary about the underground resistance to the Suharto dictatorship. The film made was in secret by community television director Jill Hickson in
By Craig Cormick
Chchchchk! Chchchchk! Chchchchk! It's the feeling of a big lever being tightened. Slowly. Painfully. Screwing something into my head. I open my eyes slowly. And I wish I hadn't. My head aches worse. Chchchchk! One more turn on
Aboriginal rights on the agenda
By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY — "Racism is what defines this country", said Jenny Munro, chairperson of the Metropolitan Lands Council. "Many in this country pretend that racism is not there, but as Aboriginal
National Action to march
YOUNG, NSW — National Action has announced that it intends to march from the Young Town Hall to the old Lambing Flats site in Young on Easter Saturday, March 29 at 10am. Local sources fear that the Shooters Party
Judi Bari, 1949-1997
@box text intro = US environmental and civil rights activist Judi Bari died of cancer on March 2.
Bari came into the international limelight in 1991 when a bomb exploded in her car, leaving her crippled. She had been
SYDNEY — As part of the 15th Greek Festival of Sydney, a festival of Greek films will be held at the Academy Twin Cinemas in Darlinghurst, Tuesday-Thursday, March 25-27. The program includes five feature films and six prize-winning shorts.
The
By Marina Cameron
The federal Coalition was elected a year ago having promised not to reduce funding to higher education or introduce any new education charges. Since then, education minister Amanda Vanstone has overseen a $2.3 billion cut
Behind the attacks on Albania's revolution
By Mike Karadjis
For several weeks, the Albanian working people have been in armed rebellion against the corrupt US-backed Sali Berisha, whose free market rampage robbed the bulk of Albanians of
By James Balowski
In a statement released by Human Rights Watch/Asia dated March 10, executive director Sidney Jones described Sri Bintang Pamungkas as "a man the president finds intolerable". Jones went on to say: "He's everything that good
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — A public forum here on March 16 discussed the prospects for forming a branch of the New Labour Party. Speakers were Elvie Sievers from the Friends of Richmond Secondary College and Bob Leach, the interim national
Solidarity with students in East Timor
By Minh Tan
MELBOURNE — Last month I travelled to East Timor as part of a six-member student delegation, which had the support of the National Union of Students, solidarity groups and East Timorese
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