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Trafficking in Asian sex workers

By Angela Matheson As a clothing machinist in Manila unable to feed and house her small son, Susie accepted a job offer of sex work in Sydney. "I am here", she says, "to work hard, and in six months I will go home and buy a house and have

British Labour Party continues move to the right

By Chow Wei-Cheng LONDON — As support for the Tory government continues to dwindle, Tony Blair, the new, young leader of the British Labour Party, made his debut at the Labour Party's annual conference in Blackpool. Blair and

LA and alienation

Undertow Tool Reviewed by Neville Spencer "In the late summer of 1948, Ronald P. Vincent decided that survival had become intolerable, that absolute anguish had become less fearful than suppression. Six months earlier, his wife

Ti-tree forests 'vandalised'

Ti-tree forests 'vandalised' The world's worst destruction of a single old growth species, Melaleuca alternafoli, Australia's unique ti-tree, is almost complete according to a two-month survey by the North Coast Chemical Coalition.

Chris Hani tour in Perth

Chris Hani tour in Perth By Stephen Robson PERTH — The final leg of the Chris Hani Memorial tour included a number of successful functions. A memorial dinner attended by 190 people on October 5 heard both John Gomomo,

Loose cannons

Work ethic "In the late '80s people were often staying right through dinner, and it's almost getting back to that stage now. We generally get banking and finance people and the bond and derivatives dealers." — The owner of the Imperial Peking

Dope conviction in Darwin

Dope conviction in Darwin By Rob Wesley-Smith DARWIN — In a court here on October 17 Magistrate McGregor imposed a 12-month good behaviour bond on a man convicted of possessing about a kilo of dope. The "offence"

More than the sum of his illusions

Dickens By Peter Ackroyd Mandarin, 1994. 608 pp., $16.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Dickens was one heck of a writer. Only the rich and unfeeling do not cry with pity for the hard lot of his heroes, laugh at the pomposity

Content and commerce on the ABC

By Jill Hickson The Senate inquiry into possible commercial influence over ABC television programming appears to have largely evaded the larger issue of the commercialisation of the ABC by the federal Labor government. An

Swing to left in German elections

By Chow Wei-Cheng Germany has been plunged into political instability by the outcome of the general elections held on October 16. The 60 million voters gave Kohl's party its worst election result (41.5%) since 1949. The

Memorial lecture well attended

Memorial lecture well attended By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — Eighty people braved unusually cold and rainy weather to attend the 1994 Jim Percy Memorial Lecture here on October 18. The lecture, given by Dick Nichols from the

Greens senators press amendments to land bill

By Stephen Robson Greens (WA) senators Christabel Chamarette and Dee Margetts are pressing the Labor government to amend its Indigenous Land Corporation and Land Acquisition bill. They have indicated that if substantial amendments are not