Cat's eye view of love
Seven Acts of Love (As Witnessed by a Cat)
Opening at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Melbourne, August 9
Previewed by Bronwen Beechey
"I like to think that good theatre should operate as a kind of
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In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave Hill cattle station owned by Britain's Lord Vestey, staged a landmark struggle for Aboriginal justice. The campaign, Australia's first successful Aboriginal
Six deaths in custody in six weeks
By Sujatha Fernandes
The deaths of six Aboriginal prisoners in the last six weeks "dramatically and sadly highlights the problem of deaths in custody nationally", says Aboriginal Deaths in
Brisbane International Film Festival
By Kerry Vernon
The Fourth Brisbane Film Festival, screening at Hoyt's Regent with a festival of short films at the State Library, runs until August 14.
This month is the centenary
By Peter Montague
After 30 years of scientific detective work, a picture has emerged strongly suggesting that US-style industrialisation is in fundamental conflict with living systems. Many common chemicals used in bulk quantities are now
By Pip Hinman
The very public attack by the leader of the Democrats, Cheryl Kernot, on the Queensland Greens following the state election last month surprised some. Kernot lashed out at the Green Party, accusing it, among other things, of
By Eva Cheng
Beijing conducted another nuclear test in Xinjiang on May 15, two days after it had promised more than 170 countries that it would try hard not to do so before an agreement to ban nuclear tests is reached, which is scheduled
Voices of Aboriginal Australia: Past, Present, Future
Compiled by Irene Moores
Butterfly Books, 1995. 492 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes
From the use of Aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman to advertise breakfast
Our right to choose
@column = The struggle to secure women's right to abortion
is ongoing. Access to abortion as a safe medical procedure
is a political issue in a system which stigmatises abortion
as a criminal act, and
By Greg Miller
The tone of the front page article in the Australian of Friday, March 10, was exuberant. It splashed across three-quarters of available space and was supported by colour photos and diagrams. "$4bn pay TV plan world first",
@9point = Sunday Concert: Miriam Makeba — Makeba was in Australia in June for the first time in more than 10 years. Her concerts throughout the country were standing room only. She returned to her native South Africa in 1991 after 30 years exile.
By Adam Hanieh and Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Schools look set to enter the world of outsourcing and privatisation if the state Liberal government has its way. The South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) and the Public Service
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