Reading in the darkBy Seamus DeanVintage, 1996. 233 pp. Review by Suneeta Peres da Costa
This is a book of haunting and beautifully rendered childhood revelations. In their subtle evocation of a youth burdened by a terrible family secret, these
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Left on-line
The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (WA) now has a web page. See .
Latest news on the trial of the Herri Batasuna leadership â The Spanish government is prosecuting the entire national executive of the legal
The French MathematicianBy Tom PetsinisPenguin, 1997. 422 pp., $17.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
"I refuse to be a mathematician in a prison, and Paris will continue to be a prison until King Charles and the Church are overthrown", declares the
Jabiluka
Chorus: I've got the Jabiluka bluesnothing to gainbut every damn thing to lose.I used to worry about uraniumuntil Pan Con bought me off.I'm trying to sell uraniumbut everyone's got enough.
I got the Jabiluka blues,while driving my
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For several months from mid-1997, the message in the mainstream Russian press was unanimous: the bad times were ending. The collapse that had almost halved the size of the country's economy since 1990 had bottomed out.
Reclaim the Streets
SYDNEY — Around 1000 protesters blocked off Enmore Road at the Reclaim the Streets rally and street party in Newtown on November 1. The protest drew attention to the lack of public space for pedestrians and the inadequacy
Jack Stannard
On November 1 we lost a great friend in Jack Stannard.
I remember the time Jack sat at the table and announced, "If we are going to have a Canberra Program for Peace, we'd better have a program". Jack was like that. Well into his
Kyoto conference
Like Australia's recalcitrant failure to address the greenhouse gas emissions problem, financial support for the environmentally destructive Indonesian Government is one more example of the antipathy of the Federal Government
By Ted Lord
PENRITH — In the largest rally ever here, some 4000 people marched down High Street to a rally at Penrith Stadium on a "Walk for Reconciliation" on November 1. Supported and organised by local church and community groups, the rally
By Sean Healy
New enrolments by full fee-paying overseas students are set to drop following the crisis in the economies of south-east Asia. So concerned are universities about the currency crisis that IDP Education Australia, which serves as the
Defining terrorism in Sri Lanka
By Ana Pararajasingham
The bomb blast that shook Colombo's financial centre on October 15 killed 13 people and injured scores of others. The Sri Lankan government promptly blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE).
By Lachlan Malloch
SYDNEY — Around 600 people marched here on November 8 to commemorate the November 12, 1991 Dili Massacre in East Timor. After a mass held at St Marys cathedral in the city, hundreds of East Timorese left the church, each
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