Gay love, homophobia and class
Beautiful ThingWritten by Jonathon HarveyDirected byHettie McDonaldReviewed by Kath Gelber I felt compelled to write more about the film Beautiful Thing after reading Castellani's review (GLW #250), not because the
251
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Queensland Coalition government has launched an attack on the state's anti-corruption watchdog, the Criminal Justice Commission, in a bid to return to the "good old days" when former premier Joh Bjelke Petersen and a
By Norm Dixon
The pro-independence Bougainville Interim Government has denied involvement in the murder of the Port Moresby-appointed premier of Bougainville, Theodore Miriung. BIG spokespeople believe that, in the light of tensions between Miriung
By Natasha Sinnet
Since it emerged in the 1970s, heavy metal music has been blamed for everything from inciting riots to murder. Earlier this year, the media blamed Australian teenage band Silverchair for allegedly instigating a triple murder in
By Jo Williams
MELBOURNE — Unfortunately, the last few months of hectic campaigning against the Liberals' education cuts has provided an opportunity for some to (conveniently) forget lessons learnt over the last decade of fighting Labor's attacks
The August 19th movement
As I write it is all of two months since the doors of parliament shattered in our hands. The month in which our strength was briefly marshalled — the angry, rapturous, in-your-face furore that overtook us — has settled.
By Maureen Germein and Carla Gorton
The answer is yes. More cuts to Austudy and the Job Search Allowance for young people are planned by the Coalition government. The August budget included a proposal to amalgamate and rationalise the major forms
CycloDirected by Tran Anh HungNow screening in Sydney and Melbourne, other capitals to followReviewed by Brendan Doyle Winner of Best Film at the Venice Film Festival last year, this young Vietnamese director's latest film about a pedi-cab driver is
Amnesty calls for release of Vanunu
Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of Mordechai Vanunu on the 10th anniversary of his arrest and solitary confinement. "Mordechai Vanunu has been held alone in a cell for 10 years, which
By Marina Cameron
Against a background of rising unemployment rates, the Howard government announced a new $5.9 million labour market program for young people on October 7. The Jobs Pathway Program will begin in 1997, with public and private
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For months, political crisis has gripped Belarus, the former Soviet republic of 10 million people on Russia's western border. President Alyaksandr Lukashenko, like Russia's Boris Yeltsin in the early autumn of 1993, is
On October 16, the Democrats took a step closer to fulfilling Cheryl Kernot's prediction of a few days' before — that the Coalition's industrial relations law would be in force by the end of the year — by voting for the bill to move to the
- Page 1
- Next page