By Mairi Petersen
SHELLHARBOUR — For the past ten years the right-wing Labor-controlled Council here has been promoting a plan to destroy a 780-metre popular family beach at South Shellharbour near Wollongong by building a boat harbour.
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By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The 11 miners buried underground after an explosion at the Moura No 2 coal mine on August 7, along with their suffering families, are the victims of the profit drive of BHP and other corporate mining giants.
Twinkletoes
Lion Theatre, Adelaide
Starring Carol Scarlan
Reviewed by Stephen Spence
Jennifer Johnstone's Twinkletoes is about "everything and nothing".
Carol Scarlan's strong performance of this piece for the Third International
Police powers questioned after night club raid
By Scott Lewington
MELBOURNE — Forty armed police burst into popular city gay and lesbian nightclub, Tasty, on August 7, detaining 463 patrons and staff for up to three hours and strip
1500 rally for the forests
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Undeterred by driving rain, 1500 people attended the Gathering for the Forest in Forrest Place on August 9. The rally called on the federal government to stop woodchipping in old growth
Women and violence
In response to the article on the National Strategy on Violence Against Women (GLW #152) Cowburn asserts (Write on #154) that it disturbed her. While she recognised the extent of violence against women, she disagreed with the
Repeal all anti-abortion laws!
By Kath Gelber
Actions were held around Australia in the second week of August to coincide with an National Day of Action for Reproductive Rights. The actions focussed on the bid to repeal all anti-abortion
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Briagde: Americans in the Spanish Civil War
By Peter N Carroll
Stanford University Press 1994, 440 pp., $35.00 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936 with General Franco's
A one-sided picture
Manila — The Real Thing
The Cutting Edge
SBS Television Tuesday August 23, 8.30pm (8pm South Australia)
Previewed by Peter Boyle
One of my first impressions as a recent visitor to Manila was how dim most of the
Greens contest Parramatta by-election
By Janet Parker
SYDNEY — On August 27, voters in the state seat of Parramatta, once a piece of Labor's "heartland" and now a marginal seat, go to the polls. Some commentators estimate the outcome will
Two films by Australian women directors
Boys and Balls
Directed by Sue Thomson
In Bed With Your Neighbours
Directed by Doerthe Janson
Presented by Gil Scrine Films
August 19-21, University Hall, Harris St Ultimo, Sydney; August 26-28
Andrea Rieniets alive
By Penny Farrow
Adelaide-based artist Andrea Rieniets' Open Cheque Book Performance at the Proscenium on July 29 was a fundraiser to produce her own CD.
Andrea is accompanied by her computer which is programmed
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