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Compulsory viewing for judges Below the Belt A play by Daniel Scott Starring Imogen Annesley and Duncan Piney Crossroads Theatre, Sydney until September 12, then Universal Theatre in Melbourne, September 1425 Reviewed by Barry Healy
By Max Lane On August 19, so-called "international negotiators" Lord Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg were able to announce agreement over the status of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. Disagreement on this issue was acting as an obstacle to the
250 days of Richmond school occupation By Alex Bainbridge MELBOURNE — The Richmond Secondary College Occupation released an Occupiers' Handbook on August 19 to mark the 250th day of the occupation. Richmond Secondary College (RSC)
Animal Lib billboards censorsed By Karen Fredericks SYDNEY — Animal Liberation posters publicising the plight of battery hens and factory pigs have been removed from Sydney railway stations by the advertising company paid to place them
Vegetarianism Fortunately for those wishing to become vegetarians the path is nowhere near as difficult and confusing as Dave Riley's article "Does meat make the meal?" (Green Left 11/8/93). In fact the most difficult part about becoming a
Healthy, wealthy and perplexed "If the health system is being run by males, and death rates are an important measure of health outcomes, then surely males would be expected to have better (that is, lower) death rates than females", claimed
By Pip Hinman The tax on petrol in last week's federal budget received a mixed response from environmentalists. Hailed by the Australian Conservation Foundation as a long-overdue environmental and health reform, Greenpeace and the
By Gyorgy Scrinis Until the modern era, bread was the symbol and the source of sustenance in many cultures, and was referred to in the bible as the "staff of life". Now, most commercial bread is fluffy, tasteless, and nutritionless, and bread
Keating's creeping GST Even ACTU president Martin Ferguson felt the need to make a pretence of attacking the 1993 federal budget. We cannot "defend the undefendable", he said. He failed, of course, to use the opportunity to announce the
Australian Greens hold first conference By James Basle CANBERRA — The first national conference of the Australian Greens, held over the weekend of August 13-15, set as its aim winning increased representation at all levels of
Students and the budget By Rebecca Meckelberg While tertiary students knew that the 1993 federal budget would offer few gifts, many have been shocked that a Labor government could introduce measures that mean the end of any notion of free
Pacific peepshow Pacifica: Tales from the South Seas13-part series commencing Thursday, September 2, 7.30p.m. (7.00p.m. Adelaide) SBS Television Reviewed by Ignatius Kim From musicals (South Pacific, Blue Hawaii) to TV shows