The Truth About Maori — An engaging film about the Maori identity. SBS, Friday, May 10, 1.30pm.
Movie: Leaf On A Pillow — The rough and tumble daily life of three homeless kids battling to survive on the streets of Java. SBS, Wednesday, May
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BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Calling for a free Palestine, 500 women and children — many wearing traditional dress and carrying olive branches — rallied in Hyde Park on May 4.
Organised by the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, participants then
Museworthy: Wooden Bird
painted crowd; unsurprised children quietly skipping; everyone where they are supposed to be following
the announcement of a new world — until,into the very centre of the square from a juxtaposed tree
and sky falls
BY NORM DIXON
Professor Hans Koechler, the UN secretary-general's observer to Libyan citizen Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al Megrahi's appeal hearing against his conviction for murder of the 270 people killed in the 1988 Lockerbie air disaster, on March
What are we to do with the refugeeswhen we have racists to appease?What we needed was a specific resolutionbut had to make do with the Pacific solution.Just across from the Long White Cloudin the land of the John White Howardlived a people who once
Chaplin: His Life and ArtBy David RobinsonPenguin, 2001892 pages, $33 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
It would have been Charlie Chaplin's greatest performance. "I'd have turned up in my tramp outfit — baggy pants, bowler hat and cane — and when
BY JIM GREEN
The Australian Conservation Foundation argued in its 2000 Blueprint for a Sustainable Australia, "The digital revolution is merely the first taste of a complete industrial revolution, a sustainability revolution".
The ACF did not
BY EVA CHENG
General Pervez Musharraf has claimed that 70% of those eligible to
vote in Pakistan's April 30 referendum participated, and that 97% endorsed
his bid to remain the country's president for a further five years.
However, a
BY URI AVNERY
TEL AVIV The real aim of Operation Defensive Shield was not to
destroy the infrastructure of terrorism. This was merely a good slogan
for uniting the people of Israel, who are angry and afraid after the suicide
BY LEO ZEILIG
Madagascar is best known for its unique wildlife and as a destination for Western tourists, who are keen, according to a recently published tourist guide, for a "taste of the exotic". However, largely ignored by the international
BY JAMES CAULFIELD
CANBERRA — The Liberal Party received a "Racists of the Year" award from 150 protesters on May 1, during the M1 rally and justice tour. Awards were presented by a "neo-liberal grim reaper" to several companies and organisations
BY PETER LEWIS
[The following comment appeared on Workers Online, the NSW Labor Council web site, on May 3. The author is the site's editor.]
Unionists watching the shambolic and violent affair that was the M1 protest could be forgiven for
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