BY BRONWYN POWELL
WOLLONGONG — Three hundred people sat in on Wollongong City Council's February 19 meeting and watched in anger as council approved the first stage of a 428-lot residential development at Sandon Point in Thirroul.
The council
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ChocolatWith Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp and Lena OlinDirected by Lasse HolstromPalace Cinemas, Sydney, other states to follow
REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM
I saw Chocolat on Valentine's Day. So too, it seemed, did a good
By Raul Cienfuegos
The US$7.5 billion “Plan Colombia”, designed by the US State Department
as an anti-drug plan, is beginning to show its true purpose. Of the US$7.5
billion, US$1.3 billion has come from the US, mostly as military
On January 29, Chilean investigative judge Juan Guzman Tapia announced the indictment of former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte on 57 counts of homicide and 18 of kidnapping, as co-conspirator in the October 1973 Caravan of Death, in which 74
By Neville Spencer
On July 2, Vicente Fox Quesada of the conservative National Action
Party (PAN) was elected president of Mexico putting an end to 71 years
of continuous rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Though
the rule
BY SEAN HEALY
International money traders have subjected the Turkish lira to sustained attack, forcing it to plunge 28% against the US dollar on February 22, sparking fears of a deep economic crisis in the country.
The lira's collapse was the
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
The Hidden WordsworthBy Kenneth R. Johnston
Pimlico, 2000690 pp, $35.15 (pb)
"I am of that odious class of men called democrats". Could the person who uttered this statement and who supported the Great French Revolution
BY SUE BOLAND
Just before Christmas, most newspaper columnists were writing off Labor's chances in the next federal election. It had no alternative policies, it was crippled by electoral rorting allegations and it had not a hope. Now, after
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
Public servants are prime targets for the federal government. In the last decade 110,000 public sector jobs have been lost through cuts to funding, restructuring and the outsourcing and privatisation of government services
BY PIP HINMAN& SIBYLLE KACZOREK
SYDNEY — An effigy of Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer, complete with "letters" from oil companies Petroz and Santos protruding from its suit pockets, drew curious students to an action on Sydney
Colombia film launched
SYDNEY — Around 70 people packed the Chippendale Resistance Centre for the premiere of the documentary Colombia — Peace at What Price? here on February 22. The film was presented by the Committee in Solidarity with
Adelaide:
M1 action. Notice to be served on all businesses in Adelaide Stock Exchange. Thurs March 1, noon. Meet at trading board, Santos bldg, Currie St. Ph 8231 6982.
M1 Adelaide meeting. Every Thurs, 6.30pm. Canon Poole Rm, 5th flr, Adelaide
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