Independence DayDirected by Roland EmmerichAustralian cinema release August 29Canadian BaconDirected by Michael MooreReleased on video, 1996Reviewed by Greg Adamson Canadian Bacon, John Candy's last film, is a humorous and startling look at the US
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CANBERRA — The issue of youth crime in city and suburban centres here has been receiving much media attention. The supposed increase in youth crime, however, is questioned by DAVID MATTHEWS, coordinator of the youth information and advocacy service
Challenging the Centre: Two Decades of Political TheatreEdited by Steve CapelinPlaylab PressReviewed by Dave Riley Today, if I employed the term "agit-prop", very few people would know what I mean — and many of those who perchance recognised the
Primo Levi: Bridges of KnowledgeBy Mirna CicioniBerg Publishers, 1995. 222 pp., $29.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Amongst the 200,000 demonstrators in Milan in 1994 protesting against the inclusion of neo-fascists in the newly elected right-wing
Brisbane council delays decision on Murarrie plan
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The City Council has delayed a final decision on approval for BHP's proposed metal-coating facility at Murarrie, reverting to its original deadline of November 5. The
By Paul Howes
[The following is an edited version of a talk presented to the "Fight back!" conference organised by the Democratic Socialist Party and the socialist youth organisation Resistance on September 1. Paul is a year 9 student at Blaxland
By Lisa Macdonald
A recently released Australian Conservation Foundation report accuses BHP of planning to recreate the environmental and social disaster of the Papua New Guinea Ok Tedi mine, this time in the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica. ACF
The story so far
Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before, for the benefit of new readers:
BILL CLINTON, a presidential nominee, conceives the project of executing a salutary missile strike to mark the consequences of wrongdoing and
t's remarkable that the music of the Pacific features so sparingly on the world music scene in Australia. In PNG, Fiji and the Pacific, there is some great music that combines the best of indigenous rhythms and harmonies with contemporary pop
Surfrider plans campaigns
HOBART — On September 2, the Surfrider Foundation had its first meeting for this year. The group campaigns against the pollution of Tasmania's rivers and oceans. Michael Paxton, Tasmania's NUS environment officer, called
By Kamala Emanuel
NEWCASTLE — A panel consisting of a high school activist, a doctor working in reproductive health and a trade unionist who attended last year's Beijing Conference on Women addressed a forum on the impact on women of Howard's
The circles that matter
"[ACTU secretary Bill Kelty] still commands respect in many circles and will find among his strongest defenders businessmen such as Lindsay Fox." — Brad Norington, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, September 4.
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