Comment by Michael Heaney
One good thing to come out of Neil Jordan's movie Michael Collins is a re-examination of the historical Michael Collins. I found the film captivating and inspirational. There are historical inaccuracies in it, but I have
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By Pip Hinman
There's a perception that the ABC has been spared because the Mansfield inquiry did not recommend further budget cuts and opposed the introduction of sponsorship and advertising. This is dead wrong. The ABC is facing the biggest
By Norm Dixon
"The closure of Radio Australia would in effect be an intensification of the media blockade that has been placed on Bougainville by PNG for the past eight years", an angry Moses Havini, spokesperson in Australia for the
Careers with what?
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE — The appropriately named daily newspaper, the Advertiser, managed to fill a quarter of a page last week reporting that federal and state ministers for employment and education, Amanda Vanstone and
JILL HICKSON visited Indonesia in December to make a documentary video. Here she describes her discussions with women factory workers. I met with women workers from Tangerang and other outlying industrial areas around Jakarta. They talked about some
By Chris Spindler
On January 31, more than 300 people attended a public meeting called by the Redfern Aboriginal Housing Coalition to discuss opposition to the ongoing relocation of residents and demolition of houses in Eveleigh Street, Redfern.
Radically Speaking: Feminism ReclaimedEdited by Diane Bell and Renate KleinSpinifex Press, 1966. 624 pp., $34.95 (pb) Review by Pat Brewer
This book is a defensive project, criticism driven, by a strand of feminism which feels itself under siege.
By Sonny Melencio
MANILA — Temic (Telefunken Microelectronics Incorporated) is a company with around 3500 workers, mostly women, in the microchips industry. The Temic plant in Taguig, Metro Manila, accounts for 80% of German investment in the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — When the bright young reformers around Russian President Boris Yeltsin quit their Communist Party membership years ago and turned to building capitalism, they were acting from deep-seated ideological conviction. We have
ADELAIDE — The Living Waters Revival Concert held here on Invasion Day, January 26, featuring indigenous and multicultural performers looks set to become an annual event. Continuing the momentum of the Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) public meeting
CBC workers fight cuts
Public broadcasting in Canada is also under attack. By April, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will have had its budget slashed by $400 million. More than 2000 workers will lose their jobs, including those with the news
By Stuart Russell
Jittery about the worsening economic situation and threats to its authority, Big Brother is arriving increasingly at our workplaces and homes. Bosses and the state in Australia and other western countries are intensifying their
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