Close My Eyes (R)
A film by Stephen Poliakoff
Starring Alan Rickman, Clive Owens, Saskia Reeves
Cinema Nova and Brighton Bay, March 1993
Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti
This second feature by writer-director Stephen Poliakoff (Hidden
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By Norm Dixon
SYDNEY — Australian human rights lawyer Rosemarie Gillespie, just returned after four months living and travelling in rebel-held areas of Bougainville, has dismissed claims by the Papua New Guinea government that it is in
By Bruce Marlowe
Many voters are looking for an alternative to Labor and Liberal, but are fearful of inadvertently contributing to the return of a Liberal government. Some have been asking Green Left Weekly how the preferences of the various
>Trainspotting socialist from hell
668: Neighbour of the Beast
Attila the Stockbroker
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Nick Fredman
Attila the Stockbroker (AKA John Baines) is a stand-up comic, performance poet, singer, folk musician
The hole in Kennett's 'safety net'
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government's Employee Relations Act purports to establish a "safety net" of minimum conditions for the new employment agreements being forced on many workers.
Hidden unemployment
The number of women with jobs increased by 21,500 in the year to January, according to figures released in late February by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. By contrast, the number of men with jobs for the same period
A strange happening
Joan Coxsedge, long-time political activist and scourge of spooks, is no stranger to phone taps and sundry other ASIO tricks, which are generally hard to prove. But it seems our bumbling spies have tripped themselves up.
By Rodney Croome
[This is an abridged text of the campaign manager's report delivered last month to the annual general meeting of the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group.]
Thanks to our well-publicised appeal to the United Nations
90,000 Victorian workers take to the streets
By Roberto Jorquera
MELBOURNE — March 1 marked the death of the state award system here. Some 80,000 people marched in Melbourne and several thousand more rallied in regional centres to
Queensland Greens optimistic
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Queensland Greens are optimistic that Drew Hutton will be elected to the Senate at the March 13 election.
"I suspect that more people than ever are disenchanted with the
By Dave Riley
The rise of fascism in Germany and then the war produced the first major break in European cabaret tradition since its beginnings in the years after the 1871 Paris Commune.
While some cabarets were formed by exile German
Dick Nichols
How likely is it that any of the alternative parties will break through the two-party system?
I don't think that any of the parties by themselves have got a clear enough grasp of the politics of what needs to be done or a
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