By Robyn Marshall
Former army sergeant Noel Beteta, convicted of the 1991 murder of Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang, escaped from Pavoncito prison in Fraijanes, Guatemala, on September 23. Beteta and 40 other prisoners escaped during
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The photo reproduced here was printed in the Newcastle Herald on October 25. It shows Tim Anderson reading the latest 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly after delivering the keynote speech at the annual 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ dinner dance in Newcastle on October 23.
The
Comment by Yaluritja (Clarrie Isaacs)
PERTH — The West Australian Liberal Party's anti-Mabo legislation is a crime against humanity.
Running true to form, the West Australian Liberal extremists are determined to validate their own leases
By Tony Smith
The traditional image of the true believer is changing dramatically. Union membership is being decimated, socialism has fallen from popularity in the East, and full employment has been reduced to the status of a mythical ideal
By Stephen Robson
NEW DELHI — Bhutan, a tiny country in the north-eastern part of the Himalayas, has a population now estimated at around 1.3 million. Since 1988, some 125,000 have become refugees from the brutal regime.
Bhutan is ruled
Officials 'ignored' illegal sewer dumps
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Brisbane City Council staff have turned a blind eye to the dumping of huge amounts of illegal liquid waste into the city's sewerage system, a Criminal Justice Commission
Waterland
Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Nova Cinema, Melbourne
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
"What's the point of studying history, when the world is about to end?", a high school student asks of teacher-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown Tom
By Elle Morrell
MELBOURNE — It was reported in the establishment media as a shock. However, Moira Rayner, Victoria's equal opportunity commissioner, had been expecting something since July. Her sacking by the Kennett government on October 26
Groups oppose cable car in rainforest
CAIRNS — The Cairns and Far North Environment Centre (CAFNEC) and People Against Kuranda Sky-Rail (PAKS) on November 5 announced a campaign against a proposed cable-car development through listed World
Tess McKenna album
Make Me Wonder
Tess McKenna
ABC
Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg
I first heard Tess McKenna perform in one of the many little bars in Melbourne's Fitzroy; she struck me then as really talented woman. Her style is
Triumph clothing strike ends
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — More than 350 women at Triumph International women's underwear factories at Ipswich and Wynnum ended a nine-day strike on November 3, after gaining some improvement in the redundancy
By Anthony Brown
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities may be included in a scientific project to collect genetic material from the world's endangered indigenous peoples.
The Human Genome Diversity Project is a five-year plan to
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