Inhumanity on screen
A Bug's Life Directed by John LasseterDisneyNow screening at all major cinemas Review by Stuart Klawans
The technique known as CGI is a Frankensteinian art, as unsettling to consider as it is difficult to pronounce, the full
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Russians who have been worried sick about a clinically dead economy, arrogant criminals and a do-nothing government can now take a break from those concerns. The country's leaders have found a new cause for public
Kurds respond to 'un-Australian' jibe
By Kerryn Williams
MELBOURNE — The Kurdish community demonstrated outside the Greek consulate on February 17 in response to the abduction of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. The Australian government, the
Immediately after the February 17 demonstrations in Sydney and Melbourne last week calling for the release of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan (see article page 14), newspaper editors began pumping out the same line as that
Emma To and Keara Courtney
SYDNEY — On February 13, nearly 200 people gathered at Town Hall to protest the anti-truancy policy of the NSW Labor government. Tim Anderson, secretary of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, described the poor
By John Meehan
DUBLIN — The referendum held on both sides of the Irish border on the 1998 Good Friday agreement was carried with massive majorities: by 71% in the Six Counties and 95% in the 26 Counties. Most of the "No" vote in the North was
NSW Coalition: coy or sneaky?
By Dick Nichols
SYDNEY — Since before Christmas, NSW Liberal leader Kerry Chikarovski has been saying her industrial relations policy would not be released for "another couple of weeks". Nationals' leader George
By Zanny Begg
The Senate will debate amendments to federal electoral law on February 15 which, according to the Greens' Senator Bob Brown, would make it harder for "young and black people to enrol to vote". The Electoral and Referendum Amendment
Fear of MirrorsBy Tariq AliArcadia, 1998239 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
Everyone, from his ex-lover to his son, seems to be giving Vladimir Meyer the same advice: "Stop living in the past! Wake up! Marxism is dead!". The wall is down,
On February 5, more than 22,000 gathered on the steps of the Sydney Opera House for the launch of the 1999 Mardi Gras season.
The New York-based Devil's Advocates and The United 32s have released an 18-song CD of traditional Irish music, punk rock, hip-hop, ska and jazz titled Snipers In Derelict Houses, much of which deals with the conflict in Northern Ireland. Snipers In
Debates in the Jabiluka campaign
By Pip Hinman
Over the past few weeks, the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide Jabiluka Action Groups (JAGs) have been told by the Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation (GAC), set up to represent the interests of the Mirrar
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