By Philippa Smith
SYDNEY — The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) is coming under fire for a controversial proposal to restrict its membership to gays and lesbians prepared to be "outed" or named publicly. SGLMG is the
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By Michael Garay
President Fidel Ramos opened the 10th Congress on July 24 with the executive's traditional "state of the nation address" in a joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives. At the same time, 80,000 people
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — On June 29, a flash flood overwhelmed a large sewage treatment plant near Kharkov, Ukraine's second-largest city. Sewage backed up, choking equipment and putting the plant out of action. Raw waste began pouring
ACT students against nuclear tests and Francophobia
By Tony Iltis
CANBERRA â On July 19, 100 students marched from Parliament House to the French embassy, chanting "Non aux essais! Oui la paix!" (No to testing! Yes to
Democratic Socialists: End the arms embargo!
By Peter Boyle
The United Nations should lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, turn over the weapons of the UN "peacekeepers" to the government of Bosnia and get out of the country,
Nuclear disarmament: why isn't it happening?
@edit = France's decision to resume nuclear tests in the Pacific has galvanised world opinion against the irrationality of nuclear weapons. Since the end of the Cold War, the vanishing of the
By James Balowski
For almost a week, thousands of workers from a garment factory, PT Great River Industries (GRI), in Bogor, West Java, have organised a wave of strikes and rallies in pursuit of better wages and conditions.
The
August 28 is National Landmines Day. One in three nations has been mined, and up to 70 people a day are being killed as a result of landmines. The number of individuals maimed or killed by landmines in peacetime is as high as 2500 per month. For
European MPs' protest against Chirac
By Frances Kelly
LONDON — When French President Jacques Chirac spoke in the European parliament on July 11, he was shouted down by MPs in protest at France's resumption of nuclear tests in
Les Parents Terribles
By Jean Cocteau
Sydney Theatre Company
Drama Theatre, Opera House until September 2
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
It is a strange coincidence that at the very time that the perfidy of the French
By Sujatha Fernandes
In all of the apparent outrage expressed by politicians over the French government's decision to resume testing in the Pacific, there has been little mention of the Australian government's own record of nuclear
WA teachers step up campaign
PERTH — At a mass meeting on July 27, teachers voted to extend their campaign for better education with a series of rolling strikes. Teachers will stop work for two hours each Thursday, beginning with the
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