Adelaide's weekend of world music
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — "Three days and nights of musical bliss" proclaims the pamphlet promoting the WOMADELAIDE 93. "The world of music, arts and dance grabbed the hearts and minds of 30,000
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By Lyndall Barnett
MELBOURNE — On January 20 Scott Baker was acquitted in Magistrate's Court of false charges laid against him by police who arrested and assaulted him in Collingwood last year.
In the afternoon of September 4, the
Nonviolence Speaks to Power
By Petra K. Kelly
Edited by Glenn D. Paige and Sarah Gilliatt
Centre for Global Nonviolence Planning Project
Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace
University of Hawaii
1992. 183pp. No price given.
For the cowpokes
Beautiful
Clip Clop Club
Larrikin Records
Available on CD and cassette
Reviewed by Les Boyd
Do you vaguely remember waiting eagerly for Hopalong Cassidy to crackle onto the B and W tube? Or the Cisco Kid? Gene
By Michelle Hovane
[This is the abridged text of a talk at a Perth Politics in the Pub on the topic "Prospects for a Left Alternative" on January 22. Hovane is the Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Perth in the WA election.]
Forest worker compensation?
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — In the midst of the Wilderness Society's "Long Hot Summer" campaign, there have been calls to compensate forestry workers suffering financial hardship because of the disruption to
Greens do well in US vote
Candidates of the Green Party USA won 11 seats in local elections in November, according to latest figures compiled by the party. Eighty Green candidates ran for national, state and local offices in 13 states. They
Further cuts likely at Qantas
By Fred Masters
Further cutbacks are likely at Qantas as the company presses for productivity gains of 5% annually.
As well, British Airways' recently acquired 25% shareholding in Qantas could be a
Comment by Steve Painter
From a packed field, the Australian's Paddy McGuinness is rapidly emerging as Australia's leading crank columnist. In recent weeks, McGuinness has fearlessly taken on cyclists ("should be banned"), residents opposing
By Sean Malloy
The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy are serious about what they say and do. During their tour of Australia and New Zealand, they took time to learn about the respective countries' politics. On Tuesday the 26th Michael Franti
By Frank Noakes and Catherine Brown
LONDON — 1992 marked the closing of one chapter and the opening of another in European politics. The former, developing from the early '80s, reached its pinnacle in 1989 with the collapse of walls and
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Russian Premier Viktor Chernomyrdin on January 18 abandoned price controls imposed several weeks earlier on a range of food and household products. The decision to lift the controls, which were introduced in
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