A blend of echoes
Echoes Under the Bridge: new world music from BEMAC
Reviewed by Robyn Marshall
This is a new CD from BEMAC, Brisbane's ethnic music centre, the result of a residency and workshops led by Lindsey Pollak over a four-month
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By Faruk Avdi
MELBOURNE — "Sustainable forestry — has come to mean the sustenance of a small number of large timber corporations involved in the chipping and pulpwood sectors ... a principal theme of the industry to preserve — or 'sustain'
Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives
Edited by Caroline Daley and Melanie Nolan
Pluto Press, 1994. 368 pp.
Reviewed by Bernie Brian
All of the articles in this collection were first presented at the "Suffrage and
ALP and Lenin
It is good that Jim McIlroy (GLW 171) has conceded that working in the ALP may be of some use, even if it is to be a "subsidiary tactic".
The use of an article written [by Lenin] in 1916 to resolve a tactical question in 1995
St Kilda Writers Festival
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — The beachside suburb of St Kilda is well known for its bohemian, slightly seedy atmosphere and associated in the popular mind with the artistic and eccentric. It seems a logical
By Pip Hinman
In the current debate over woodchipping old growth forests, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the union movement had taken a unanimous position in support of the government's pro-woodchipping policy. This is not the case. The
By Dr Chesterfield-Evans
Probably the most significant paper at the 9th World Conference on Smoking and Health, held in Paris October 10-14, was the presentation by Richard Peto of the latest results of the study of smoking and death rates in
Political journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal is facing execution in the state of Pennsylvania in what could become the most explicitly political legal slaying since the 1953 execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage.
Committees for the
BRISBANE — For two and a half months, 17 Central American workers, mostly from El Salvador, have been on strike protesting against racial discrimination on the job. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's ZANNY BEGG spoke to Jorge Rodriguez, Salvador Ramos and Juan
By Sean Lennon
MELBOURNE — There is increasing community anger here over the Kennett government's plans to build a number of freeways around the city, collectively known as the Melbourne City Link.
The Melbourne City Link bill — will
By Peter Boyle
April 22 is the 125th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the Russian Revolution, V.I. Lenin. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is increased debate over Lenin's contribution to the movement for
Eyes have turned toward developments in the Middle East in recent weeks as negotiations between the Palestinian National Authority and the Israeli government hit crisis point. Forty-seven per cent of Israelis polled by the newspaper Yediot Aharonot
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