Seeing Voices
Seeing Voices: A journey into the world of the deaf
By Oliver Sacks
Picador. 181 pp. $13.00
Reviewed by Dave Riley
This book is not as esoteric as the subject may seem, nor is it a voyeuristic peak at the disabled.
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"Booney" comes from Cherbourg. He did schooling to grade 10, but decided that was enough and didn't want to do any more. After rows with his family came to a head in 1991, he left home for the bright lights of Brisbane. He was 16. He slept where
Changing the world?
By Lieszel Plumbe
A small, conservative country town. A young woman viciously raped at gunpoint. The headline "RAPE HUNT!" screaming out on the front page of the local paper. And so begins what may be the last will
The Fertile Prison — Fidel Castro in Batista's Jails
By Mario Mencía
Melbourne: Ocean Press. 241 pp. $22.95
Reviewed by Sean Malloy
Honesty is the vigour with which one defends one's beliefs. — José Martí
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Matt McCarten is president of the New Zealand NewLabour Party and chair of the Alliance (involving NewLabour, the Greens, the Maori party Mana Motuhake, the Liberals and the Democrats). In April, he visited the United States, speaking on the
Community protests killing of Somalis
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — "We are demonstrating to show Australian people and the international community how angry and upset we are with the continual killings of Somalians by the UN troops in
WA rail jobs to be cut
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Westrail announced on July 13 that a further 460 jobs will be cut, in addition to the 750 to be lost with the planned closure of the Midland railway workshops.
The 460 jobs will be
Every night television is flooded with ads for Telecom and Optus, part of the $150 million advertising war between the two telecommunications giants. Will all the hoopla lead to a better telecommunications system? Green Left asked Col Cooper,
By Richard Staples
Disputes surround proposed ocean outfalls at Coffs Harbour and Lennox Head. The authorities claim "there is no alternative". Opposition to new dam proposals is deep seated within many communities. Pacific Power has
By Michael Rafferty
The retail giant Coles Myer is pioneering a novel recruiting technique to deal with the flood of applicants for its new chain of toy stores. Job seekers will queue via their telephones, waiting on line for a preliminary
For many Australians, Africa conjures up images of famine, war, poverty and helplessness. But now a campaign aims to show Africa's other face — its many achievements and the superhuman efforts that Africans are making to improve their lives.
Australians care
Capital punishment is flourishing in many countries today. The United States of America is one of those countries. More than half of the states in the US are killing their citizens.
America's death rows are morbid,
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