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CJC hears witnesses on death in custody

By John Nebauer and Kerry Vernon BRISBANE — The Criminal Justice Commission's public inquiry into the death in police custody of Aboriginal dancer Daniel Yock, 18, began here on November 24. The original police account was that they

Economic changes in Vietnam impact on women

By Stephen Robson HANOI — The introduction of private enterprises has adversely affected women here. Of some 700,000 people who have lost their jobs in the state sector, two-thirds are women. Creches and kindergartens have deteriorated

Work and leisure

By Frank Noakes Charles Dickens writing during and of early industrial Britain (those glorious days extolled by Margaret Thatcher et al), relates that entry to public parks in the industrial towns was prohibitively expensive, except on Sunday

Cry the beloved non-country

By Edward W. Said The "historic breakthrough" by the PLO and the Israeli government signals a new phase of reconciliation between two enemies. But it also leaves Palestinians very much the subordinates, with Israel still in charge of East

... and ain't i a woman?: White ribbons

White ribbons The small contingent of Men Against Sexual Assault (MASA) who stood beside the route of the Sydney Reclaim the Night march with their banner this year, received a warm very welcome, at least from the women marching near me. It was

Did someone murder Douglas Scott?

By Karen Fredericks Douglas Bruce Scott died in Berrimah jail in Darwin early in the morning of July 5, 1985. A police inquest and the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody both ruled it was suicide. But Doug's widow, Lettie Scott,

Write on

Jamaica? Thanks for you article about race relations in Cuba, by Edwin and Jo Hoffman (GLW #124). I would like at this point to bring in little Jamaica, only 90 miles south of Cuba, where I lived for many years. In both Haiti and Jamaica

Campaigning on the high seas

All Hearts on Deck: A Personal Account of the 1981-82 Campaigns of the Sea Shepherd By Frankie Seymour Canberra: Boris Books, 1993. 180 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon "Stop ship and prepare for boarding", ordered the captain of

Picketing charge 'a threat to all'

By Bernie Brian WOLLONGONG — The trial of two South Coast trade union officials on criminal charges, arising from a picket line at a Kiama construction site, has been adjourned to February. South Coast Labour Council (SCLC) secretary Paul

1993 Festival of Jewish Cinema a mixed bag

By Vivienne Porzsolt As in previous festivals, the latest Jewish film festival in Sydney covered the usual preoccupations of Jewish film with identity, the Holocaust, Israel and the pains of adolescence. With a couple of exceptions, it lacked

Last growl of the tigers?

Dragons in Distress: Asia's miracle economies in crisis By Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld Penguin, 1992. 346 pp. Reviewed by Sean Healy Few modern myths have been so pervasive, and yet so oppressive, as that of the "Asian tigers",

Salvadoran band tours

Salvadoran band tours Lara Pullin Erupo Nacascol was born out of the ruins of Colonia Dolores, a community in San Salvador hard hit by the earthquake of October 1986. Members of the group discovered their common love of music while