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Moruroa — The Big Secret The Cutting Edge SBS, Wednesday, July 5, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide) Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson This documentary, made in 1993 by a group of French, Tahitian and Australian film makers, on the shelf until now, has
Airport 'consultations' cause uproar By Cameron Parker SYDNEY — Called by the federal government's hastily established Sydney Airport Community Consultative Committee (SACCC), a series of highly charged public meetings in Newtown, Hunters
Socialists call for 'people before profit' By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Brisbane Central, Zanny Begg, called for the creation of "a new kind of government based on putting the interests of
A brave little boy By Brandon Astor Jones "If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or country with them." — Richard Allen (1760-1831), former
By Jon Lamb Students in Burma have played a major role in the fight for human rights and democracy throughout the decades of turmoil that have racked Burmese politics. Students led the waves of anti-government protests which swept across Burma
Darwin anti-nuclear campaign By Tom Flanagan DARWIN — An information stall in Darwin's Raintree Park on July 1 collected hundreds of signatures on petitions opposing nuclear testing. This was the first of a series of public actions in
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Law and order and the environment are becoming the main battlegrounds over which the Queensland state election on July 15 is being fought. Labor and the National-Liberal Coalition are competing over who has the
Haiti election fiasco The US-sponsored local and parliamentary elections that took place in Haiti on June 25 were a fiasco. Polling booths failed to open, voters' names were not on the electoral register, official candidates did not appear on