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By Pip Hinman The final phase of the $64 million Kangaroo '95, "the greatest show in town", as Royal Australian Navy Captain and chief controller of Kangaroo '95 Jim Gault put it, has begun in the north of Australia. The military exercise
Consultation by Zapatistas The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) on June 8 called for a national and international consultation around five questions
Queensland ALP in disarray By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The war of words continues in the ALP in the aftermath of the state election debacle. On August 4, Brisbane Lord Mayor Jim Soorley called on Queensland Labor Party secretary
Opposition over tollway, tree-clearing grows By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The state government's controversial South-East Tollway and tree-clearing guidelines remain major problems for the re-elected Goss government.
Understanding the unforgivable Mad Turk Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, August 9-September 2 Previewed by Bronwen Beechey At 10am on May 9, 1989, a man entered a kindergarten in Hawthorn, a middle-class
Kurds on hunger strike By Susan Phillips MELBOURNE — Thirteen members of the Kurdish community have been on hunger strike here since August 1, to protest against the genocidal policies of the Turkish government in Kurdistan.
In good conscience By Brandon Astor Jones @outdent = "My sense is that a majority of Southern Baptists would approve of capital punishment." — C. Ben Mitchell, Southern Baptist minister. @outdent = The Southern
More delays on redeployment By Jennifer Thompson Middle East International's Graham Usher has reported that the Israeli government now supports only "partial redeployment" of its troops in the occupied territories, for
Rally for Bosnia By Jon Lamb ADELAIDE — More than 1500 Bosnians and their supporters marched and rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out in their homeland.
Stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal! The following is an abridged version of a statement circulated by the Committees of Correspondence in the United States. The governor of Pennsylvania [has] signed a death warrant to set the
In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave Hill cattle station owned by Britain's Lord Vestey, staged a landmark struggle for Aboriginal justice. The campaign, Australia's first successful Aboriginal
Cat's eye view of love Seven Acts of Love (As Witnessed by a Cat) Opening at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Melbourne, August 9 Previewed by Bronwen Beechey "I like to think that good theatre should operate as a kind of