Ethan Frome
Directed by John Madden
At the Kino, Melbourne, from late October
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Forbidden passion seems to be a sexy topic among independent and art house cinemas these days — or perhaps it always was. John
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Rainforest banner a winner
By Cam Walker
MELBOURNE — Thirty activists from the Boycott Mitsubishi Coalition leafleted the National Basketball League's finals at Flinders Park on October 1. The action was part of the campaign at events
Mabo made understandable
Mabo — its meaning for Australia
A Community Aid Abroad Background Report
30 pp. $8 (plus $2 for postage and packaging)
Reviewed by Lachlan Anderson
Community Aid Abroad recently released a compilation of
Inside Indonesia turns ten
The tenth anniversary of the important Australian publication Inside Indonesia was celebrated in Melbourne on October 3 with the release of issue number 36.
The celebration was held together with the opening of an
Shooting at the Moon
Shooting at the Moon: Peace Workers in Cambodia Tell Their Stories
A photographic exhibition at the Sydney Town Hall October 9-16 and from October 18 in Canberra at Old Parliament House.
Heide Smith's photographs
BRISBANE — The Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign continued on Friday, October 1, as the Rainforest Information Centre, Environmental Youth Alliance and other rainforest activists gathered at Boondal Entertainment Centre for the Mitsubishi-sponsored
Breaking the norms
By Sabina Nowak
ADELAIDE — Two short plays by David Paul Jobling, The grip and Grown-up's playroom, were performed together at the Space Theatre from September 21 to 25.
The grip, previously performed at the South
Unions plan struggle to defend wages
By Boris Kravchenko and Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Defying heavy government pressure, Russia's main union body went ahead on September 28 with a conference that had been intended to map out a campaign of
Academic defends group named as cult
By Michael Collins
How free should academics be to lend the authority of their positions to doctrines which have not been subject to academic evaluation? The question arises in regard to the group Kenja,
Democrats arrested, beaten
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Three leaders of the Party of Labour were arrested and savagely beaten as the regime of Boris Yeltsin moved to suppress the democratic opposition.
Around 11 p.m. on October 3,
Ho-hum for the republic
Ignoring calls from Prime Minister Paul Keating for an unemotional and non-inflammatory debate on the prospects for a republic as the findings of the government's Republic Advisory Committee were handing down on October
Great original concept! — A recent addition to the Sydney Morning Herald's pink guide is a column entitled "Radio Highlights". It seems the concept behind the SMH's RH column is to inform readers about particular radio programs of particular
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