'Best yet'
By Sean Lennon
MELBOURNE — "The 1994 Festival of Jewish Cinema has surpassed any previous festival of which I was director", is how festival director Les Rabinowicz describes the program and roster of overseas guests for this
166
Comment by Lisa Macdonald and Pip Hinman
We were looking forward to going to a Reclaim the Night march in Sydney. After all, last year's march was a great success.
While there had been relatively little advertising, up to 6000 women of all
By Max Anderson
LONDON — On October 29, a day marked by constant drizzle and the occasional heavy shower, thousands of people marched from the Temple tube station on the Embankment to Trafalgar Square, where a CND (Campaign for Nuclear
By Stephen Robson
From 1949 until 1972, the Liberal Party held federal government. Following the decision of the powers that be to terminate the Whitlam government in 1975, the Liberal Party again governed until 1983.
By this time, the
By Max Lane
On November 12, thousands of East Timorese and their supporters around the world will be demonstrating in commemoration of the massacre of peaceful protesters in Dili in 1991. Around the world, people will be demanding that Indonesia
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Electoral League (DSEL) has announced that it will be standing at least two candidates in the NSW state elections in March 1995.
Karen Fletcher, a well-known feminist and previous
By Frank Eckardt
As the recession bites, more people are living on the streets. For 10 days I trudged across parts of Tokyo, observing and talking to the people who live on its streets. In the absence of official statistics, I wanted to see the
Women in refuges
By Maria Caltabiano
Women in refuges who are escaping domestic violence may not be able to escape the government knowing all about them if the newly proposed data collection scheme goes ahead.
Refuges are funded
Aborigines condemn Land Acquisition Fund
By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — Thirty people attended a meeting called by the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA) on November 2 to discuss the implication of the federal
New Friendshipment for Cuba
MINNEAPOLIS — Another Pastors for Peace material aid caravan is rolling through the United States and Canada towards Cuba.
The fourth US-Cuba Friendshipment got under way on October 31 from the western United
Transport union targets privatisation
By Michael Unger
ADELAIDE — The Public Transport Union has begun campaigning against the privatisation of Trans Adelaide.
On November 2, all bus passengers were handed a leaflet warning that the
Better Dead than Red
By Michael Barson
Plexus, 1992. $15 (pb)
Reviewed by Arun Pradhan
"A Commie. She was a jerky Red. She owned all the trimmings and she was still a Red. What the hell was she hoping for, a government order to share it
- Page 1
- Next page