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Blackfellas Starring John Moore, David Ngoombujarra, Jaylene Riley, Lisa Kinchela and John Hargreaves Written and directed by James Ricketson Opening in Melbourne and at Valhalla Cinema in Sydney on August 26, Perth on September 2 with other
By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — The defence of wages, conditions and trade union rights are the themes of a number of public actions being planned around the ACTU Congress to be held in Sydney from August 30 to September 3 this year. The
Surrealism: Revolution by Night Art Gallery of NSW July 30 to September 19 Reviewed by Zanny Begg Salvador Dali's famous utterance "the only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad" seems, in a peculiar way, to define
Franc falls, is US dollar far behind? By Stephen Millies NEW YORK — "Money does not smell", wrote the Roman historian Tacitus nearly 20 centuries ago. Whether or not this is true, money has to represent value. This is the root of the
By Karen Fredericks Last week in the South Australian Supreme Court Justice Derek Bollen, known for his "rougher than usual handling" judgment in a rape in marriage case last year, held that a survivor of domestic violence who killed her
By Pip Hinman Paul Keating's H.V. Evatt lecture last April — his first detailed public statement on Labor's "republican vision" — was awash with pronouncements about "reconciliation" with Aborigines, entreaties to forge a so-called
Working the land they own The hidden face of land rights in NT By Alex Cooper The current public debate over the High Court's Mabo ruling has brought many racists out of the woodwork who claim that Aboriginal land rights will hold back
Prison campaign continues By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — An inquiry by the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board into discrimination against women prisoners is to go ahead despite the failure of an injunction aimed at preventing the removal
South African Women's Day celebrated By Jane White PERTH — Working together, with much laughter and harmony, the ANC Support Group and Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (WACARE) women's day committee welcomed over 120 comrades and
A meeting held here on August 2 attracted about 40 women to re-launch the Women's Liberation Organisation. The meeting flowed out of a forum held last June, which attracted 120 women, to discuss the fragmented state of the women's liberation
By Paula Nassif "We're not being protected ... those who are supposed to protect people from poison, just have not done the job... By and large, they're in bed; in cahoots with those doing the polluting." This damning comment was made by
US/UN out of Somalia! The United Nations/United States "peacekeeping" mission in Somalia stands exposed for the grisly farce it is. In a joint statement addressed last week to the UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 26