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Taxi DriverDirected by Martin ScorseseFeaturing Robert de Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel and Cybill ShepherdDendy Cinema, Brisbane, from April 18Reviewed by Giovanna Castellani This year is the 20th anniversary of one of Martin Scorsese's greatest
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4pm-7pm. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
Bills gets his 15 minutes Isn't that ... ? You know. The one who was governor general. Bill Hayden. Oh, you know him. The one who made all the fuss. I saw him on telly with whatisname. It is. It's Bill Hayden, I tell you. I'm sure of it. He
Mick Young Stories about Mick Young must be legion. Once a delegation fighting to save Port Adelaide Adult Matric (Saint Ethelton Behind the Wire to its inmates) from being chopped by the Bannon and Hawke governments was invited to put its spiel
By Vaarurfika Dharmapala PERTH — For the first time since its inception in 1987, the Network of Women Students of Australia's annual conference will be held here this year. The conference will be held at Edith Cowan University (Mt Lawley campus)
By Cherry Winters MELBOURNE — Workers at the Campbellfield Nestle factory remain on the picket line after 12 weeks of being locked out. The workers belong to the confectioners division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU). Workers
As poverty, wars and systematic human rights abuses around the world continue to create thousands of new refugees every day, over the last few weeks the Coalition federal government has signalled moves to significantly restrict Australia's refugee
New plays launched BRISBANE — Lucky Hearts cooperative theatre group is presenting a new venture in alternative theatre from April 25 to May 18 at 588 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba, opposite the Mater Hospital. Shadowboxing, a one-person
Workers join forces with Timor activists By Barry Sheppard Readers of Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly have followed the struggle against the Indonesian military's occupation of East Timor for many years. But here in the US, this important struggle is not
The good fight of Elvis and Marilyn in cyberspace A short story by Craig Cormick She altered my life. And when she found me, I was sitting alone in my room in my underpants, with a large file before me, hacking at my profile. It's true. It's all
By Mark Cronin BRISBANE — About 50 people attended a picket against racism outside the office of the federal minister for Aboriginal Affairs on April 16. The picket was called by members of the Community and Public Sector Union and endorsed by 20
By Mike Karadjis The merciless bombing of Lebanon by Israel has again, as in 1993, resulted in the flight of 500,000 people from their homes in the south, while hundreds have been killed and wounded. According to medical authorities nearly all are