By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — In the parliamentary elections in December, six months before the far more vital vote for the presidency, the authorities discovered to their alarm that they had almost no support among the population. As a matter of
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By Philippa Stanford ADELAIDE — The 1996 Fringe Festival opens on February 23. Launched with a street party and parade, the festival runs until March 17. This year the festival has grown significantly with around 4400 performers participating at
By Kim Linden MELBOURNE — Professor Peter Singer, lead Senate candidate for the Greens in Victoria, has called on Democrats leader Cheryl Kernot to explain why she forced CEPU state secretary Len Cooper to withdraw Singer's invitation to speak at
By Pip Hinman SYDNEY — On February 13, Maurice Marsland was stabbed to death at Goulburn jail. This is the second stabbing death at Goulburn in three months. Ray Jackson, from the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, said that Marsland,
Your Little SecretMelissa EtheridgeIsland through PolygramReviewed by Jen Power Your Little Secret is singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge's fifth album. The music is straight forward rock and roll. Her fans expect Etheridge to provide her familiar
In the Fascist Bathroom: Writings on punk 1977-1992By Griel MarcusPenguin BooksReviewed by Liam Mitchell Very rarely do you read an analysis of music — any music — such as Griel Marcus' works, published in a variety of magazines and brought
Big gaps in Gulf War documentary The Gulf War: a television historyABC TV, Wednesday February 14 and 21, 8.30pmReviewed by Jennifer Thompson It's only five years since the 1990-91 Gulf war and yet it's faded from many people's memories.
Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and
The Liberal-National Coalition's plan to cut $6 billion over four years, mainly from welfare and public sector jobs, has been greeted with draculaesque howls for more blood from the capitalist press. The Australian Financial Review's February 16
By Merima Trbojevich From the moment he departed, leaving everything he had, he's become just one more number on a long list of refugees. He's become a number which has neither colour nor aroma, goodness nor malice, fault nor virtue — a number
Socialists back Greens HOBART — The Democratic Socialists are urging all progressive activists in Tasmania to give their first vote to the Greens in the state election on February 24. They are also advocating that preferences be given to the
By Lynda Hansen BRISBANE — The Wilderness Society (TWS) hosted a group of Aboriginal elders from Cape York in West End on February 11. Sixty people were entertained by Mbakeh Darboe, a master drummer from Gambia, Nakamura Matsouri band, Chris
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