By Kevin Healey
Well reader, I guess it's difficult to be bright this week, knowing the country is trying to struggle on without the weight of Peter No-Longer-Staple in the ministry. Apart from the personal tragedy, it's a wonder the country
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The peace movement
In an address broadcast live on national radio and television on March 25, President F.W. de Klerk told startled MPs that South Africa developed, between 1974 and 1990, six nuclear fission devices of the capacity of the
Cuba calls for disaster relief
HAVANA - Cuba has called on the United Nations for help to recover from the savage winter storm that hit the western and central provinces over the March 13-14 weekend. The storm caused unprecedented flooding.
Macedonia: The Last Peace
To be screened on SBS Television as part of the Cutting Edge series of documentaries
Tuesday, April 6, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Michael Karadjis
One might begin to gain an insight into the
Simple Men
A film by Hal Hartley
Showing at Melbourne's Kino from April 2
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Independent film maker Hal Hartley has a distinctive style — evident in Simple Men and his 1991 art house cinema success, Trust. His
By Shannon Ewart
In 1987 Jacqui Payne, a lawyer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Brisbane, presented a paper to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, which stated in part that her Aboriginal clients
ANU evicts residents from historic home
By Nadine Behan
Students living at Old Lennox House, which has been low cost accommodation on the Australian National University campus for over 30 years, were given seven days, notice to vacate
Not really sleeping
Sleeping with the enemy
Album by Paris
Scarface Records
Reviewed by John-Paul Nassif
Paris is an eloquent and self-righteous rapper whose consciousness goes well beyond "I'm militant". He has a real knowledge of
In the international Year for Indigenous People, the Dutch government is in conflict with the Innu people of Canada. GINA ROGERS reports from The Hague.
Since 1986, the Royal Netherlands Airforce has performed more than 10,000 low-level
By Sean Malloy
Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the Gaza strip has reached terror proportions in the last three months. Tikva Honig-Parnass writes in the March issue of News From Within, "Since the 'left government' took over the reins,
By Norm Dixon
In a significant vote that has gone largely unreported by the Australian media, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva has called on the Papua New Guinea government to end the economic blockade of
South African solidarity with Cuba
By Norm Dixon
It is time for the liberation movements in South Africa to repay the debt they owe to Cuba by organising solidarity with that island. This is the message of the solidarity group, Friends of
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