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Full program for St Kilda festival

By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — The short film, a poor relation of cinema for years, is experiencing something of a resurgence. Films like Ana Kokkinis' Only the Brave have won international awards and cinema distribution. Some of the more

Perth activists to discuss strategies

By Lisa Macdonald Activists from the environment, women's, solidarity and workers' rights movements will be gathering at a Marxist Education Conference in Perth over the Easter weekend, April 15-17. This conference, the first of its kind in

SACP discusses new phase of struggle

By Tim Dauth JOHANNESBURG — "Consolidate and advance": these are the tasks, delegates to the South African Communist Party Gauteng regional congress here decided on March 18-19. The congress recognised that the immediate task is to address the

... and ain't i a woman?: The senator's skeletons

The senator's skeletons The WA senator with domestic violence skeletons in his closet was forced on April 3 to resign from his position as deputy president of the Senate, after his admission of having bashed his wife. Resignation was his only

Gallant Scots versus craven fops

Rob Roy Starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth and Eric Staltz Directed by Michael Caton-Jones Reviewed by Barry Healy Robert Roy MacGregor was a Scottish clan chief whose life, mediated through a great romantic book by

Australia 1995

Australia 1995 By John Tomlinson As we woodchip our way towards a forest policy, setting up bilby abattoirs in Pitjantjatjara country, our journalists inquire of highly paid bankers whether we should put up interest rates in order to

Leaps the '90s in a single bound

Poor Super Man By Brad Fraser Sydney Theatre Company's New Stages Wharf 2, Sydney, until April 29 Reviewed by Peter Boyle Q: Have you heard the rumour that Superman was gay? His obituary in the November 20, 1992, Sydney Morning Herald

Australia's role: Mining giant's war on West Papua

Thirty-seven people — 22 civilians and 15 alleged guerillas — were killed by the Indonesian army in West Papua between June 1994 and February 1995, according to a report released by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) on April 5.

Business as usual in NSW

Business as usual in NSW The election of Labor right-winger Bob Carr to the NSW premiership has hardly created a ripple. The unanimous view, it seems, is that the Carr government's policies won't deviate significantly from those of its Coalition

Victorian hospital jobs under threat

Victorian hospital jobs under threat By Seetal Dodd MELBOURNE — Jobs and job security are under threat at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, formed in a recent amalgamation between Heidelberg and Austin hospitals in Melbourne's

Meeting supports sexuality bill

Meeting supports sexuality bill By Leon Harrison PERTH — On April 4, 25 members of Perth's gay community met with Australian Democrat Sid Spindler to support his proposed bill to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of sexuality.

A shelf full of heresies

United States: Essays 1952-1992 By Gore Vidal Abacus, 1994. 1295 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Gore Vidal has, for most of his 70 years, been writing novels, plays, essays and journalism in a brave attempt to hold back the