By Jackie Coleman
HAVANA — Miami-based TV Marti has succeeded in broadcasting less than an hour of programs into Cuba since it started transmissions in March 1990. While Cuban technicians have been able to scramble its signal and thus block US
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About Us: My life as I live it — Aboriginal activist Essie Coffey's first film, My survival as an Aboriginal, was an immediate success at its release in 1978. This new documentary looks at what progress against racism has been made in Essie's home
By Christopher Phelps
"Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.
"Plenty of prisons", said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
A short story by Craig Cormick
Any of the townspeople of Dangawullah could tell you exactly when the Devil arrived. It was that hot afternoon of October 29, 1929. It was the last day that it rained that year until Christmas Day, and it was the
Comment by Zanny Begg
and Sujatha Fernandes
The Network Of Women Students Australia (NOWSA) conference in Sydney in July attracted 400 women from around the country. The conference was organised by a cross-campus collective of women from NSW.
In the stars: your coming year
By Lucifer Skycrawler
What's in the stars? Hydrogen, say some people. Heat, say others. Tonnes of orange Smarties, say still others. All of these answers are silly. In reality, the stars are occupied by
Peace action planned
A national women's peace action and festival is planned to be held at the Australian Defence Industries Munitions Factory in Benalla, Victoria, during Easter next year, from April 14 to 16, 1995.
The action will be an
By Liang Guosheng
Amid the rumours of a cover-up of Deng Xiaoping's death, larger foreign investors are becoming increasingly frustrated and concerned by the stop-start nature of the "market reforms" which have become a feature of "market
Green It Up finishes '94 with a bang
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Green It Up, the weekly alternative cultural event held at the Shamrock Hotel here every Thursday night, finished up for 1994 with a huge end-of-year party on December 1. Green
Badgerys Creek is no solution
By Mike Karadjis
Residents of Sydney's inner south-west are rightly angry about the horrendous levels of noise and air pollution, affecting hundreds of thousands of residents, which have accompanied the opening
History lessons
It seems only yesterday that we were told of the end of history: that for better or worse, things were the way they were and no more could be hoped for. We'd arrived. This message, universally proclaimed by government and media,
By Stephen Robson
During the Cold War, Australia's military expenditure was justified as protection against a Soviet threat, against the "red peril" from the north which would sweep down, toppling country after country until arriving on our
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