Dream trips from Havana to Brooklyn
Dreaming in Cuban
By Cristina Garcia
Flamingo Publications. 245 pp. $14.95
Reviewed by Kylie Budge
Set in Havana and Brooklyn, Dreaming in Cuban is a wonderful story which interweaves the lives of
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Goss to end royal trappings in Qld
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has entered the republican debate with plans to remove the oath of allegiance to the queen in state jurisdictions, and to remove references to the
By Anne Casey
Chances are your GP sees on average two drug company representatives a week, meeting each on average three times a year and spending 11 minutes with each. He or she will spend about 80 minutes each week reading medical
'No democracy in Tonga without a fight'
One of Tonga's royal-appointed ministers has warned that it is unrealistic to expect that the South Pacific island kingdom's nobles would hand over power to the people without a fight.
Minister
By Norm Dixon
South African President F.W. de Klerk admission that South Africa developed six Hiroshima-sized nuclear bombs during the 1970s confirms charges made by the African National Congress and the anti-apartheid movement over the past
By Catherine Brown
"I am sad. Whatever the size of the faults we have committed, I really don't think we deserved this", lamented Michel Rocard, the French Socialist Party former prime minister and future presidential candidate. The SP enters
Economy 'at sea'
In a variety of recent articles in the Chinese press, the term xiahai, or "moonlighting" has recurred. It describes the emerging phenomenon of workers — usually skilled workers or intelligentsia — who, often illegally,
She will not lose
More Ways Than One
By Arramaieda
An album of voice and percussion
Natural Symphonies
Available on cassette and CD
Reviewed by Karen Fredericks
This recording of 14 songs by Sydney-based a cappella group
By Peter Boyle
In her first interview after the elections, environment minister Ros Kelly signalled that the Keating government would take a tough stance towards environmental groups. She told the March 31 Melbourne Age that the government's
ALP challenges SPSF left leadership
By Adrienne Barrett
MELBOURNE — The State Public Service Federation (Victoria) elections in May-June promise to be a showdown between the current left leadership and several ALP-aligned tickets.
Vote for Labor
Sean Healey (Write on, GLW March 24) ignores two reasons for calling for a vote for Labour.
(1) It is much easier to expose the pro-capitalist nature of the Labour party if they are in Government. When Labour are in
By Herb Thompson
Of the national work force, only 39.6% are union members, down from over 50% before the Accords. ACTU secretary Bill Kelty announced before the last election, "Ultimately, it won't be a conservative government that destroys
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