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Blackfellas Starring John Moore, David Ngoombujarra, Jaylene Riley, Lisa Kinchela and John Hargreaves Written and directed by James Ricketson Opening in Melbourne and at Valhalla Cinema in Sydney on August 26, Perth on September 2 with other
By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — The defence of wages, conditions and trade union rights are the themes of a number of public actions being planned around the ACTU Congress to be held in Sydney from August 30 to September 3 this year. The
By Cipto R. JAKARTA — On August 30, Indonesia's second biggest city, Surabaya, was brought to a halt when drivers of the huge numbers of public transport small vehicles went on strike. Indonesia's public transport system relies on various
Gaywaves Queer Debate Talkback. Promises to be a lively discussion. Gaywaves hopes to raise questions of bisexual identity, inclusion of non-gay and non-lesbian people as part of the movement, transsexual issues and more! The program goes to air
By Karen Fredericks Last week in the South Australian Supreme Court Justice Derek Bollen, known for his "rougher than usual handling" judgment in a rape in marriage case last year, held that a survivor of domestic violence who killed her
By Pip Hinman Paul Keating's H.V. Evatt lecture last April — his first detailed public statement on Labor's "republican vision" — was awash with pronouncements about "reconciliation" with Aborigines, entreaties to forge a so-called
Surrealism: Revolution by Night Art Gallery of NSW July 30 to September 19 Reviewed by Zanny Begg Salvador Dali's famous utterance "the only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad" seems, in a peculiar way, to define
Franc falls, is US dollar far behind? By Stephen Millies NEW YORK — "Money does not smell", wrote the Roman historian Tacitus nearly 20 centuries ago. Whether or not this is true, money has to represent value. This is the root of the
South African Women's Day celebrated By Jane White PERTH — Working together, with much laughter and harmony, the ANC Support Group and Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (WACARE) women's day committee welcomed over 120 comrades and
A meeting held here on August 2 attracted about 40 women to re-launch the Women's Liberation Organisation. The meeting flowed out of a forum held last June, which attracted 120 women, to discuss the fragmented state of the women's liberation
Working the land they own The hidden face of land rights in NT By Alex Cooper The current public debate over the High Court's Mabo ruling has brought many racists out of the woodwork who claim that Aboriginal land rights will hold back
Prison campaign continues By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — An inquiry by the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board into discrimination against women prisoners is to go ahead despite the failure of an injunction aimed at preventing the removal