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By Kath Gelber The Sydney Film Festival got off to an impressive start on June 10 with the screenings of the 1994 Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films. Shorts were screened in five categories: documentary, fiction, general, animation and
by Dave Riley When Charles Darwin synthesised the biological knowledge of the 19th century into a theory that humans evolved from other mammals, Frederick Engels in a short essay hypothesised that in the transition from ape-like creature to
Transforming Labor: Labour Tradition and the Labor Decade in Australia By Peter Beilharz Cambridge University Press, 1994. 245 pp., $29.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon After 11 years of federal ALP government, it is not hard to weigh the
In April and May, SOA Watch and Witness for Peace sponsored a 40-day fast in Washington to call attention to the School of the Americas and to mobilise support for closing it down. The US Army School of the Americas was established in Panama in
By Jon Land Supporters of Bougainville have sharply condemned the June 8 Senate report on the Australian parliamentary delegation's visit to Bougainville in April. "The Loosley report makes no mention of the fact that Australian arms, money
Electricity privatisation in Wellington By Max Anderson WELLINGTON — With less than a month to go before the Wellington City Council makes a decision on the issue, the Save Capital Power group is rallying public support for its campaign
By Phil Clarke Panic and hysteria took hold of the South Korean capital, Seoul, last week as troops and police moved in to "protect" government buildings from the alleged threat of North Korean terrorist attacks. Seoul airport and the residence
Opposition to honour for Sarawak minister ADELAIDE — The Students Association of the University of Adelaide, Friends of the Earth Nouveau and the Native Forest Network of South Australia have expressed disappointment at the university's
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — In the last weeks of May, the nerve of Russia's chief economic strategists seemed to crack. Ending months of confident statements by government leaders, President Boris Yeltsin admitted to a meeting of industrial
By Angela Walker While islands have long conjured up images of "paradise", they have been treated as exploitable colonies, toxic waste dumping grounds, nuclear testing grounds and strategic sites for military bases. Henry Kissinger
You may be surprised to learn that over one in 10 of Green Left Weekly subscribers are from rural areas. On the whole, these are areas where Green Left is not sold on the street. Subscribing to Green Left in these towns involves a very conscious
By Nick Sudakov The Whitsunday branch of the Queensland Greens has called on the federal government and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) to take immediate action to protect the reefs fringing the Whitsunday Islands.