Baker's DozenEnda KennyIndependently produced. PO Box 5018, Carlton 3053$30 (includes postage)Reviewed by Alex Bainbridge Enda Kenny is an Australian folk singer on the rise. Baker's Dozen, like its predecessor, 12 Songs, has been widely acclaimed in
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By Wendy Robertson
In the last two weeks of May, some of the largest national mobilisations against cuts to higher education since the 1980s free education campaign took place. Up to 27,000 people participated in rallies organised by the National
By Norm Dixon
Oblivious to the terrible human rights record of the Indonesian dictatorship in occupied East Timor and West Papua, in Aceh and Indonesia proper, western governments continue to sell high tech weaponry to the Indonesian military.
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — Despite forcing the state government to the negotiating table on June 7, the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) has been unable to win any government concessions on their wage claim for public sector health
While fashion designers are demanding size 8 models for the catwalk and Juice magazine promotes "fashion to die for", is it any surprise that eating disorders are on the increase? On June 4, the NSW Health Department released a report stating that
TrainspottingDirected by Danny Boyle Starring Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Johnny Lee MillerReviewed by Natalie Woodlock
If you're looking for a happy ending, or for a moralising don't-do-drugs-they're-bad-for-you film, you shouldn't see
NICO WAHID is a leader of Students in Solidarity with Democracy in Indonesia (SMID), a national progressive student organisation with 10 branches across Indonesia which was established in 1991. Nico is in Australia to attend the "East Timor: Its
By Michael Bramwell and Arun Pradhan
PERTH — Who is Resistance and what are they doing out west? Looking at the media coverage last year starts to give a (distorted) idea. According to Channel 9 news, Resistance was infiltrating Perth high
By Norm Dixon
The brutal military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha is stepping up its harassment of labour movement activists. The British Committee of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) and the London-based Committee for a
Protests follow killing of East Timorese youth
By Edmund Thompson
East Timorese youths and their supporters in Jakarta have organised protests following the killing of an East Timorese youth, Manuel Soares, on June 7. Soares, 25, had moved to
By Norm Dixon
The African National Congress narrowed the gap between it and the National Party in the Western Cape local elections held May 29. Despite the ANC gains, the NP's continuing support from members of Cape Town's predominantly
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — If you hadn't had a pay packet in months, would you be holding off from protest action in order to avoid embarrassing the ruling authorities before the next elections? Probably not, and workers in Russia aren't doing so
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