Luciana Castelina, a leader of the Italian Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) and a member of the European parliament, spoke with Green Left Weekly's Kate Shannon about the coming national elections. Castelina will be a speaker at the
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — How democratic is a country in which a person who reveals breaches of an international agreement can be put on trial in a closed court, under secret laws and in violation of the constitution? That is the question
By Susan Hollows
How difficult is it to be accepted as a refugee in Australia? Gek Buoi Minh, a 15-year-old Cambodian girl scratching out a living in Song Be refugee camp in Vietnam, has waited over five years for her migration application to be
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — Liberal and National Party backbenchers in the state parliament are trying to stop the declaration of 350,000 ha of 11 remaining wilderness areas in NSW, or water them down. These areas were announced for declaration
Stoned Week planned
By Freya Pinney
BRISBANE — The focus of the University of Queensland's O-Week and Recovery Week in 1994 is the decriminalisation of marijuana. This will culminated in the organisation of a Stoned Week, including a
Youth graffiti
BRISBANE — A Resistance "Graffiti for Youth Rights" action was held in the city mall on Friday, February 4. The stall and banner graffiti took up issues such as the Liberal candidate for lord mayor's proposed youth curfew in the
The Mardi Gras Film Event
Feb 25 to March 3, at the AFI Cinema, Paddington
Presented by Queer Screen in association with Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
Previewed by Kath Tucker
The Mardi Gras Film Event, being organised in conjunction
Adelaide Fringe/Festival
During the next few weeks Adelaide will be inundated with a variety of cultural forms. Listed here are only a few of many highlights.
Aboriginal and Islander Music Festival — Warumpi Band, Mixed Relations, Seven
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — Crime waves make good copy. Journalists can spice up a story with charges of gangsterism and thuggery after stopping off at the media liaison section of the Queensland Police Force.
Regardless of the recent
By Pip Hinman
It took desperate action by 23-year-old David Kang on Australia Day to bring to public attention the plight of some 50 Cambodian asylum seekers behind bars for over four years. Australia is the only Western country with mandatory
By Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle
In the face of escalating protests, the Ramos government of the Philippines was forced to suspend an unpopular oil price rise on February 7. This followed a week of militant protests and the formation of the
By Zanny Begg
Stephen Harris is an Australian citizen currently facing extradition to Argentina to serve a five-year prison sentence. His case goes to a NSW Magistrate's Court on February 25.
In September 1987 Stephen Harris took a short
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