By Anne O'Callaghan
Professor Manuel Amador is vice-director of the Cuban Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene. He was in Australia recently to attend the 15th International Conference of Nutrition, held in Adelaide from September 26 to
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By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Japanese
Some of Robyn Archer's best
Ancient Wonders
By Robyn Archer
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg
It is a reflection of the high level of seriousness that Robyn Archer pays to political issues and her home town, that she sent
By Jose Gutierrez
"What kind of a person would become a torturer? What kind of a person would become a member of the death squads?", journalist Superna Aggarwal asked former Treasury Police officer Rene Hurtado. "Anyone", he replied, "You can
Controversial daily launched in PNG
By David Robie
A controversial new daily newspaper, published by an associate company of the Malaysian logging corporation which dominates Papua New Guinea's timber industry, appeared on November 11 —
By Karen Fredericks
"In Mabo the High Court finally removed terra nullius [the premise that Australia was uninhabited at the time of its "settlement"] from Australian common law. I don't want to be part of a 1993 terra nullius, and I'm far from
By Nicole Ernst
BRISBANE — Environmental activists protested in the early hours of the morning at the Hamilton wharves on November 22. The aim of the protest was to raise awareness about destructive logging operations in Malaysia.
The Wedding Banquet
Directed by Ang Lee
Brighton Bay, Kino cinemas, Melbourne
Reviewed by Wendy Robertson
The Wedding Banquet deals with a mixture of issues, including the everyday pressures of family and tradition that are faced by gay
Too much power
Canadian publisher Conrad Black's need to feed his enormous ego by revealing personal and political exploits (exploitations) in his self-important autobiography has lifted the lid once more on the shady dealings between leading
MELBOURNE — The Australia Cuba Friendship Society organised a well-attended barbecue on November 21 to mark the completion of its latest project, which raised $4000 to pay for an electric power generator for a medical clinic in Cuba. The 80 people
The Naked and the Dead
By Norman MailerWith an Introduction by John PilgerFlamingo 1993. 717 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1948, Norman Mailer published one of the best novels to come out of World War II. This 1993 reissue of
By Superna Aggarwal
When the Berlin Wall came tumbling down in 1989, it marked the end of a Cold War which began with the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. The age of certainty had passed. The Soviet threat was gone and with it much of the
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