By Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — In 1982 Alan Mills moved to Londonderry to find a peaceful plot on which to relax and grow native trees. Mills, who teaches maths at the local school, soon found that relaxing was the last thing he was going to be doing
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By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Films banned for
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — Victor Hugo Tinoco is head of the International Relations Department of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). He was the Managua party secretary until the May congress, and previously served as deputy
Peaceful penguins
"[The 1987 defence white paper] also forecast that any threat to Australia would most likely come from the north." — Sydney Morning Herald, November 1.
Demanding job
"I think it's true that the Westminster system demands
Fire with water
By Melinda Jollie
Naomi Wolf, the respectable darling of liberal feminism, author of the 1991 best-seller The Beauty Myth and the recent Fire With Fire, will be speaking in Sydney later this month to espouse her "power
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald
By Michael Wreszin
BasicBooks, 1994. 590 pp., $45.00 (hb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The US left has an unfortunately rich history of Trotskyist and other socialist
This week we received a letter from a subscriber. It reads:
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"My subscription will be about up for renewal. I must abandon it. I do this reluctantly. Â鶹ӳ» Weekly is a first-class production, well laid-out, tightly
Indonesia denies visas to East Timorese
By Christine Faithful
DARWIN — A small group of Australian-resident East Timorese were refused visas to visit East Timor when they applied at the Indonesian Consulate here on November 4. The
Solidarity in Philippines
By Carla Gorton
MANILA — Amnesty International Pilipinas and Initiatives for International Dialogue, a Philippines-based NGO, organised an evening of solidarity for East Timor here on October 28.
The theme
The Big Picture: The Plague: The Zero Factor — A four-part series charting the history of AIDS from the first reported case to today. ABC, 9.30pm, Thursday, November 10.
Drop the Dead Donkey — George is engaged to his girlfriend, Anna, but
Move now!
By Brandon Astor Jones
"God established a patriarchal society. Period. The husband must be the head of the home in a husband-wife situation. And men are the predominant leaders in history and men are the predominant warriors ...
By Nick Fredman
In a manner reminiscent of the bloody anti-crime campaigns of the 1980s, Indonesian authorities have in recent weeks been clearing Jakarta's streets of beggars and other "unsightly" elements in preparation for the November 15
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