By Kim Ives In the five months since the coup that overthrew Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Washington has convinced few with its strained declarations of support for the return to office of the anti-imperialist priest. Now,
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By John Tognolini Leila Murray knows more than most people about police racism. Her son Eddie died in a police cell in Wee Waa in 1983. Her husband Arthur is currently on bail, appealing against his conviction and 18-month sentence arising from
Ask for the Captain Written by Ljiljana Ortolja Directed by David Baird Performed by Handspan Theatre Victoria Arts Centre Reviewed by Peter Boyle With a brave mix of puppetry, mime and acting, Handspan Theatre has tried to give some
Healing the planet: Strategies for resolving the environmental crisis By Paul and Anne Ehrlich. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1991. $US29.95 Reviewed by Craig Brittain Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, a best-seller first published in 1968, got
By Sean Malloy SYDNEY — "It typifies the view that is held by NSW police, as far as Aboriginal people are concerned. We are all David Gundys, and it is just a matter of time before we are all shot", said Lyall Munroe Jr, commenting on the
By Carol Sherman The already tarnished image of the Australian government is about to be dealt another blow if the Piparwar coal mine in the Indian state of Bihar gets final clearance and becomes fully operational. This project, the largest
By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — The period since "democratic" politicians took control of the Moscow city government has been a Saturnalia of official criminality and embezzlement to rival anything in Weimar Germany or ancient Rome.
This week I thought I'd kick off with a very funny joke from a very funny man, that hysterically witty US Senator Ernie Hole-in-the-head. He told a crowd of cheering workers that they could respond to Japanese claims that US workers are lazy by
By Michael Schembri Discrimination in insurance "It appears that the experiment in industry self-regulation has failed as insurance companies continue to discriminate against homosexual and bisexual men, contrary to the spirit of their own
70% worse off under GST By Peter Boyle Around 70% of waged and salaried households and 60% of self-employed and farm households would be worse off under the Liberal Party's "Fightback!" package, according to federal Treasury and Finance
Facts and figures on industrial relations Industrial Relations at Work: The Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey Published by the Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations Australian Government Publishing Service, 1991. 366
By Jack Colhoun WASHINGTON — Representative Robert Torricelli sounded a clarion call for an escalated confrontation between the United States and Cuba when he introduced his Cuba Democracy Act Feb. 5. Flanked by Jorge Mas Canosa, head of
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