Still defending the '50s By Joy McEntee In Swansea, a small east-coast town near Hobart, the '60s and '70s might never have happened. For the past two years, Denise Power has been fighting the local Glamorgan Returned Services League Club
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By Peter Boyle If leaks about the coming federal mini-budget are correct, it seems the ALP left and union and welfare lobbies have got a lot of what they wanted in the form of a $3 billion spending package, largely on railways and other
Cops stole cars By Bill Mason BRISBANE — A storm has erupted here over revelations that police assisted in stealing cars, disposed of them and then even bought some of them for their own use at auction, during the controversial undercover
The Famine Within By Katherine Gilday Canada, 89 minutes, colour From February 21, Valhalla, Sydney, and the Carlton, Melbourne Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen One of the more engaging moments in this devastating film occurs when a girl, perhaps
Cuba is facing its worst economic crisis since the 1959 revolution, as a result of the US blockade and the collapse of economic relations with eastern Europe. MIKE TREVASKIS, who visited in December and January, reports on the measures Cubans hope
By Peter Annear SACRAMENTO — Exhilarating, challenging and touched by tension and trepidation were some of the phrases used here to describe the first conference of the California Green Party following its official registration as a state
By Steve Painter As the green movement grapples with problems of economics and sustainable development, it is becoming fashionable in the big business media to dismiss greens as "witch-doctors" and their proposals as economic sorcery. Given the
The Hoechst dispute as a paradigm shift in occupational health & safety By Yossi Berger Australian Workers' Union, Victoria Branch, 1991 $15 institutions, $10 individual, $2 AWU & MEWU members Reviewed by Dennis McIntyre The Hoechst Altona
By Norm Dixon Abdul Tejan-Jalloh (aka Tee-Jay), from the west African nation of Sierra Leone, is midway through a two-month tour of Australia. Concentrating on outdoor music festivals, pub and club appearances, he has introduced to many here
By Dan Connell ADI CAIEH, Eritrea — Each afternoon a cold wind howls over the lip of the plateau, some 2500 metres above sea level, sending clouds of thick brown dirt swirling through the empty streets, deserted except for swarms of small,
Czech bus drivers strike over budget cuts By Peter Annear PRAGUE — Members of the Independent Public Road Transport Union held a successful one-day strike on February 10 against proposed budget cuts by the government of the Czech Republic.
By John Tognolini SYDNEY — On February 12, within 24 hours of being paroled from prison after serving almost 15 years, 49 year-old Jimmy Smith was shot five times outside his wife's Bondi flat. He is presently fighting for his life in St
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