Sweet Flowers of Perversity
Devised and directed by Rainsford
Universal Theatre, Fitzroy, until May 8
Reviewed by Sue Bolton
Sweet Flowers of Perversity is a Butoh-based production. Butoh originated in Japan following World War II as a
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Green Left Weekly's NORM DIXON spoke to movement activists about their feelings as they cast their votes in the historic democratic elections.
Nombonisa Gasa, head of the ANC's Commission on the Emancipation of Women:
When I got my first
Intimidation and racism
By Brandon Astor Jones
At 10.10pm on March 31, William Henry Hance was pronounced dead, his scorched corpse still strapped to Georgia's electric chair. Hance was more than a little mentally impaired. Georgia law
Half the machine?
A campaign to achieve parliamentary gender equity in the ALP was launched at a conference of Labor women in Perth last November. Since that time, women ALPers have been campaigning to pass resolutions requiring 40% of Labor
Isn't prevention better than cure?
By Natascha Heuer
PERTH — During the first term of the school year, the Family Planning Association of Western Australia held a Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health (PASH) course, about sexuality and other
Youth wages create poverty, not jobs
By Nathan Brady
and Nikki Ulasowski
Currently, 20% of young full-time workers earn incomes below the poverty line, and most of the rest populate the lowest quarter of income recipients. The
The South African Communist Party is the best-known socialist party in the country, and much was made by the National Party of its alliance with the African National Congress and the presence of SACP members on the ANC's candidate lists. But the SACP
By Jon Land
The federal government's May 10 budget and white paper package looks set to continue attacks on young people and the long-term unemployed. A key feature of the white paper is the introduction of a training wage for all long-term
By Jack Weston and Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — "This is the deal:, agree to our enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) and Mr Muluihill can have his job back", explained Terry Pethebridge, Transfield industrial relations manager, to a meeting
Mass arrest of miners
More than 300 striking miners at Placer Pacific's Porgera mine site in the Papua New Guinea highlands were arrested after they began an indefinite strike on April 14. The workers were later released because the local police
Who should pay for Aboriginal health?
The federal government has been flying many kites before the May 10 budget. There is debate on how much extra funding should go to the neglected area of Aboriginal health, and whether it should come from a
Just Desserts
By Jane White
PERTH — The nicely named "Just Desserts", held here on April 22, was Western Australian Campaign Against Racial Exploitation's final push for the South African Election fund.
Hosted by Sheila Suttner, we
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