Original, fresh and funny Life on the Edge Cartoons by Judy Horacek Introduced by Dale Spender Spinifex 1992 86 pp. $14.95 Reviewed by Vannessa Hearman The work of feminist cartoonist Judy Horacek has finally been compiled into a
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The Alliance is a new progressive force that has emerged in New Zealand politics. It unites the Greens, the movement for Maori self-determination Mana Motuhake, the Democrats (who emerged from the former Values Party), the Liberals and the
By Zany Begg "I can't tell you where I'm going but I can tell you where I came from", says Michelle Shocked about her latest album The Arkansas Traveler. This sense of heritage is an important theme that flows through Shocked's music. While
During the first international conference on temperate forests, held in Deloraine, Tasmania over the weekend of November 16- 17, Tasmanian Green Party MP Dr Bob Brown was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by DAVE WRIGHT. We've heard from a
By Greg Shapley SYDNEY — For the last few Sunday nights, the small bayside suburb of Kyeemagh has played host to a most unusual phenomenon. At sunset a rather large group (police have estimated 2000) of young people congregate, not (as the
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — As the Kennett government steps up its assault on working people in Victoria the campaign to defeat these attacks is in grave danger of being subsumed by Keating's re-election bid, according to the Democratic
For many years 1950s US films like Reefer Madness and I was a Communist for the FBI have been reliable money raisers for radical and progressive organisations. Deadly serious when they were first made — a grotesque mix of anti-communist hysteria
By Zari Duniam and Dave Wright HOBART — Some 100 people attended a very lively, and sometimes heated, debate called "Trade Unions, Jobs, and Industrial Relations in the '90's", at Politics in the Pub here on December 4. The forum, sponsored
Billed as a "war on hunger", the dispatch of 30,000 foreign soldiers to Somalia with instructions to protect food convoys with all necessary force is in reality a mark of just how far the situation has deteriorated there under Western tutelage.
John Horner The US dollar lost ground today against a strong Deutschmark, and the All-Ordinaries Index finished the day firmer at 1684.1. In the pollution exchanges, rotting fish belly-up in poisoned rivers made strong gains against dying pine
By Sean Malloy Unemployment in Australia is currently around the 11% mark. October's unemployment rate was recorded at 11.3% nationally by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This figure corresponds to 979,500 people out of work. Young
By Catherine Brown DUBLIN — "The main reason for this referendum is because the government does not accept that suicidal tendency is a reason for abortion", explained the then Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. On November 26, not only was
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