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Messengers of the natural world

Messengers of the Gods: Tribal Elders Reveal the Ancient Wisdom of the Earth By James Cowan Vintage Australia. 209 pp., $17 Reviewed by Dave Riley If you have fished Port Phillip Bay this message is clear: When the tea-trees are blooming,

Laughing all the way to (their) bank

The Temple By Louis Nowra Sydney Theatre Company Wharf Theatre to February 12 Reviewed by Helen Jarvis. Sydney Theatre Company has kicked off its 1994 season with a powerful comedy about the venality of capitalism. Louis Nowra has

Skin cancer in the sunburnt country

By Tom Kelly Two out of three Australians will develop skin cancer over their lifetime. This is the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world, and it is increasing. Recent figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show a

Radio highlights

Open Learning: International Politics — an Australian perspective — Cold War and the Wave of Democracy in the Third world looks at the Reagan doctrine in the Third World, which sought to roll back Soviet influence. The program looks at whether

New Zealand Alliance supports Cuba

New Zealand Alliance supports Cuba A call by US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson for the US government to end its illegal economic blockade of Cuba has been echoed in New Zealand by Alliance international affairs spokesperson Matt Robson.

Right steps up dirty tricks in Salvadoran elections

By Robyn Marshall The elections "of the century", as they are being called in El Salvador, are just two months away. The political parties had to present their final list of candidates for the presidential, legislative and municipal elections by

International appeal for Cuba

International appeal for Cuba By Pip Hinman On February 12, a rally demanding an end to the US blockade of Cuba will be held in New York City. Silvio Rodriquez, the world famous Cuban singer will attend, and preparations are now well under

War by other means

War by other means "America's ignoble isolation of Vietnam for the defeat it sustained in the Vietnam war is coming to an end — and not before time." responded the Australian editorial to the news that the US Senate had voted on January 28 to

Amen

Amen "Kennett looks like he should have been on drugs." — Victorian Labor MLA Neil Cole, scoring a telling point in the debate on legalisation of marijuana. Popular non-government A New Zealand opinion poll in early January asked voters to

Victoria Police trial chemical weapons

By Dallas Rodgers MELBOURNE — The Victoria Police are undertaking a six-month trial of a controversial chemical weapon. The police claim it's a non-lethal weapon for subduing violent criminals, but courts in the US, where the chemical is used,

Zagreb's struggling antiwar newspaper

By Vesna Jankovic and Boris Raseta ZAGREB — ARKzin (the name is a compound of two abbreviations — ARK for Anti War Campaign and zin for fanzine) is the monthly newspaper of Antiwar Campaign Croatia (AWC). Between September 1991 and May

What the faceless child sees

Witness An exhibition by Marija Zrno February 1-6, in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Rd, Sydney Reviewed by Jasmina Bajraktarevic This is a confronting exhibition of images from the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.