'Cultural hooliganism' in SA
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — On June 22, minister for the arts Diana Laidlaw announced plans to close and sell the South Australian Film and Video Centre. The centre, one of the most highly regarded media
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UN accepts South Africa
For the first time in 20 years, the credentials of South Africa's delegation to the United Nations have been accepted. The decision was made by a UN committee on June 17. South Africa's return to the General Assembly
Rottnest's future discussed
PERTH — In early June, Rottnest Island or Wadjemup was the site of a four day ceremonial meeting of Aboriginal people. Delegates came from all regions of Western Australia to discuss the island's future and what
JAKARTA — Journalists, students and democracy activists have held demonstrations in several Indonesian cities protesting against the Suharto regime's closure of the country's three weekly news magazines, Tempo, Detik and Editor. The closures were announced by the Ministry of Information on June 21.
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — The Rwandan Patriotic Front, on the verge of taking power in the traumatised central African country of Rwanda, says it will "do all that can be done" to resist a French military intervention. Speaking here on June
By Ray Fulcher
The Western Australian branch of the Public Sector Union is refusing to help a union member, who resigned after 12 years with the Department of Social Security. Colin Harrison cited the mishandling of a privacy investigation and
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — Leaders of South Africa's youth movements have expressed disappointment at the new government's attitude towards the June 16 Soweto Day celebrations. Seemingly succumbing to big business pressure, the government
V.I. Lenin once described revolution as a festival of the oppressed. Over the weekend of June 17-19 in Brisbane, the oppressed staged their own folk festival to celebrate the winter solstice.
Festival participants responded enthusiastically to a
By Adam Bandt
[This is an abridged version of a paper to be presented at the Campus Activist Forum in Sydney on July 18.]
Liberal governments in Western Australia and Victoria are implementing legislation that will devastate university
TIM MARSHALL, an activist in the United States socialist organisation Solidarity, will be attending the Resistance National Conference at Sydney University July 8-10 and the Campus Activist Forum on July 16. ROBERTO JORQUERA, a Resistance national
Reality Bites
Directed by Ben Stiller
Written by Helen Childress
Featuring Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller
Reviewed by Peter Meredith
Long time friends Lelaina and Troy (Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke) graduate from college and
Speciesism
I would like to respond to an article "Becoming Human" by Dave Riley in GLW #147. The aspect that concerns me here is Riley's attempt to justify his own speciesist attitudes. Speciesism is the idea that humans are inherently superior
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