Treasure chest
Andy's Chest
Martin Plaza
BMG
Reviewed by Graham Matthews
Martin Plaza is probably best known for his work with Mental as Anything. The Mentals' irreverent hits of the '80s marked an important stage in Australian pop
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'Armed and Dangerous': My Undercover Struggle Against Apartheid
By Ronnie Kasrils
Heinemann, 1993. 374 pp., $15.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When Ronnie Kasrils touched down at Johannesburg airport in 1989, he had chalked up 30 years
East Timor activist returns from Manila
By Sally-Anne Watson
DARWIN — Robert Wesley Smith (pictured), who attended the Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET) in Manila from May 31 to June 4, believes the furore which surrounded it
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — Delegates and officials from the main unions in the oil industry met with ACTU secretary Bill Kelty on June 14 to discuss a campaign in response to the massive attack by Caltex on the wages and conditions of Kurnell
Arson at PNG Forest Authority
By Jon Land
Fire on the weekend of June 5 destroyed extensive records of the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority. The PNG police are treating the case as arson. It comes in the midst of attempts by logging
New trade union for Indonesia?
By Max Lane
In a statement issued on June 13, the Free Discussion Forum (FBB), a group with extensive links among Jakarta factory workers, called for the formation of a new national trade union. The FBB
L'Ombre du Doute (A Shadow of Doubt)
Directed by Aline Issermann
Starring Mireille Perrier, Alain Bashung, Sandrine Blancke
Opens at the Sydney Academy Twin, June 30
Reviewed by L. Pradhan
Issermann says that all of her films deal with
Tuntuni Bhattacharyya and Pat Brewer
Abortion is a political issue
On July 11, pro-choice activists held a picket outside the NSW ALP conference. The picketers were demanding from delegates that the ALP end its conscience vote on abortion
Changes in Brazil's election law, voted in by the conservative majority in the Congress, have put new restrictions on opposition parties' rights to broadcast and disseminate their views.
The original law, enacted before the 1989 election, gave
Return of the Buzzcocks
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — The Buzzcocks, back after an eight-year break, played to 1500 people at the Site on June 13. Their unmistakable fresh and energetic sound chopped through my subconscious with the same
Ear to the Ground — Burra: Transitions — Continuing a feature series on South Australian history, this program looks at the former copper mining town of Burra in the state's mid-north. Cornish miners, Chilean muleteers, pigeons in the mine
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"After a dinner of Peking duck, I'll sign anything." — US diplomat Henry Kissinger in Beijing in 1972, "late at night after a banquet of Peking duck and powerful mao tai liquor", according to a long-secret RAND Corporation study of how the
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