Residents rally to save fig trees
By Susan Price
BRISBANE ... One hundred residents and supporters tied yellow ribbons around two historic Moreton Bay fig trees in a protest called by the Herston, Kelvin Grove Residents Group
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By Liang Guosheng
In his excellent summary article, "Chinese workers challenge 'market Stalinism'" (GLW, August 10) Phil Clarke writes that the "general economic model promoted by Deng Xiaoping's regime is 'market Stalinism' — market
By Wendy Robertson
Hundreds of people rallied in capital cities on October 14-15 to protest against Australian government and business complicity in the 19-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor.
Activists highlighted the fact
Phil Shannon
CANBERRA — Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed in the Commonwealth Department of Human Services & Health (HSH) have completed a series of meetings on the lack of progress in achieving an agency
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Starring Terence Stamp, Hugh Weaving and Guy Pearce
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
I'm not surprised this movie got a standing ovation at the sought-after midnight screening at Cannes.
By Richard Startari
Indonesia's government has killed, tortured and jailed its opponents at will for almost three decades, under the guise of fighting communism and instability. Amnesty International has launched a worldwide campaign which
By Dave Riley
Uncle Sam says: I want you. I want you in khaki. I want you in Haiti. I want you doing your bit for democracy. I want you at one end of a gun barrel. I want what I want — you better believe it — or bang bang you're
Open Learning — American Music and Popular Culture — Jazz: Part 1 — New Orleans, Chicago, New York. The Dixieland style dominated jazz for the first three decades of the 20th century. In New Orleans and Chicago, Dixieland was the music of
PIERRE SANE, secretary general of Amnesty International, addressed members of the human rights community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his talk. Subheads have been added.
In 1989
Kicking the habit
Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking
Penguin Books
Reviewed by Eric Earley
For the 71 years of my life I have been an active and passive drug addict, an indoctrinated, brainwashed and willing
Chipping away the forest's future
By Zanny Begg
Timber giant Boral's export woodchipping licence was renewed on October 11. The licence allows Boral to export a further 500,000 tonnes of woodchips from native forests in NSW.
The Exposurist
By P.P. Craney
Junction Theatre, cnr George St & South Rds, Thebarton
Until November 5
$15/$10, group bookings available. Phone (08) 43 6200.
Reviewed by Chris Spindler
Set in the Philippines, The
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