By Peter Lake
Nicotine skin patches are now available on the Australian market. Intended for people who want to stop smoking, the patches come with a kit which includes information booklets and a behaviour change contract to be countersigned
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Workers seize equipment
ADELAIDE — Workers from a bankrupt crane hire firm have hidden hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment to guarantee that they will receive their redundancy payments.
The workers seized two 50-tonne
Bye Bye Blackbird
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison
Fantasy through Festival
First Meditations (for quartet)
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison
Impulse!/GRP through BMG Records
Reviewed
SSS conference
I refer to Zanny Begg and Sam Wainwright's review of the recent SSS conference in Melbourne (GLW, July 21) and wish to express my disappointment at their narrow reporting and their conclusion that integrating approaches to
In Australia in the 1990s it is easy to live under the comfortable misconception that the world is at peace. In fact there are some 30 major wars, wars in which more than 1000 people have been killed, presently being fought in locations such as
By Dave Riley
Hunger is a craving that demands gratification. For the infant, what we call hunger begins with diffuse discomfort which slowly, through the nurture of others, attains some meaning as a circuit of pain gratified by food.
By Dr Neil Ormerod
It is probably not an understatement to say that sexual abuse will be one of the key issues which the churches will have to deal with in the '90s. Recent media coverage, particularly the ABC program Compass, ("Conduct
By Deb Sorensen in Kakadu National Park
Never smile at a crocodile,
No, you can't get friendly with a crocodile,
Don't be taken in by his (sic) friendly grin,
He's imagining how well you'll fit beneath his skin.
A generation of
Up in smoke
When lawyer Francis Scott Key, then moonlighting as a lyricist, wrote "The Star Spangled Banner", from the deck of a ship, surely he was inspired by sights and sounds of a new America's revolutionary struggle. The "red glare" of
Every sperm still sacred
The opposition of the Catholic Church to "artificial" forms of contraception first reached crusade proportions when churchmen became concerned at the "sexual licentiousness" made possible by improved contraceptive
The right to murder
Cutting Edge: Impunidad
SBS Television
Tuesday, August 10, 8.30 p.m. (8 in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Neville Spencer
This documentary from Australian film maker Helen Gaynor examines a key issue behind the horrific
By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — The Australian Chemical Industry Council released a code of practice on "Community Right To Know" on July 13. In the wake of major chemical disasters, community groups here have been demanding legislation to
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