Radio Highlights 'Round Midnight: The Asian Connection — British Asian singer Shiela Chandra talks to Jaslyn Hall's weekly black music program about her new album Weaving My Ancestors Voices. A live concert featuring Pakistani qwaali singer
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By Michael Arnold PERTH — The mainstream media here has recently a great deal of coverage to the police assault on 17-year-old Joseph Dethridge last May, particularly after video of the bashing was obtained by television stations and shown on
Iraqi children pay for war CHICAGO — An estimated 46,900 Iraqi children under the age of five died in the eight months following the beginning of the Persian Gulf War from causes directly related to the war according to an article in the
By Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — "The Lithuanians have elected former communists!" The results of the October 24 elections in Lithuania still had not been finalised when this sensational news flashed across the pages of the newspapers. For the
Grassroots activity Vince Englart (Write On, Nov. 18) is wrong to say that the conclusion of the GLW Editorial (Nov. 4) is that "Grassroots activity is set against work in institutions like parliament". (Why, even in the next issue, the Editorial
By Dave Wright DELORAINE, Tasmania — The first international temperate forest conference held on November 16-17 was attended by over 100 people from around Australia and overseas, including Chile, the United States and New Zealand. Keynote
Laotian independence leader dies By Stephen Robson Kaysone Phomvihane, the President of Laos and a prominent leader of the independence struggle in Laos died on November 21 at the age of 71. Kaysone participated in the student movement
Comment by Penny Saunders The 5th National Conference on AIDS (November 22-25), run concurrently with the Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, proved to be an arena where activists, medical professionals and support workers
By Peter Anderson SYDNEY — With the aid of detailed information from a couple of well-know Sydney "crims," the commission that brought about Nick Greiner's departure from state politics has turned its attention to corruption within the New
Coburg rally supports Cleary By Sean Lennon and Garry Walters MELBOURNE — Some 800 people rallied at the Coburg football ground on November 27 to offer their support to Phil Cleary, the High Court-deposed independent MP for Wills. Cleary was
Profits of War By Ari Ben-Menashe Allen & Unwin, 1992 pp 394 $24.95 Reviewed by Mark Delmege "In gratitude for the use of Australian soil for the transfer of arms to Iran, Richard Babayan, a contract operative of the CIA, received a check
Deadly Deceptions: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and our Environment A half-hour video produced and directed by Debra Chasnoff Academy Award for the best short documentary in 1991 Reviewed by Garry Walters The Campaign for International
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