Court 'okays gay murder' By Pip Hinman MELBOURNE — Gay rights activists are protesting that a May 28 Supreme Court jury verdict sends a clear message to the community that it is allowable for a man to kill another man who makes sexual
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Sand mining sparks protests By Michelle Foal and Bill Mason BRISBANE — "Save Shoalwater Bay, Time is running out!" was the cry as protesters marched through the city streets on June 11. Carrying huge hourglasses with sand trickling through
By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — With price liberalisation and the advance of private ownership, Russians are periodically assured, their country is on course for the market. What is this market, and where is it to be found? People here who
BRISBANE — The state government's move to grant a licence to adapt the Old Treasury Building site for a casino has provoked a storm of protest from conservationists and social welfare groups here. National Trust president Deryl McConaghy said:
AKA Grafitti Man John Trudell Rykodisc through Festival Records Available on CD and cassette Reviewed by Norm Dixon Poetry spoken to a beat is a very powerful medium for social and political comment. In the '70s and '80s this style was
By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — Garema Circuit doesn't exist in old street directories. It's a large new cul-de-sac in the heart of light industrial Kingsgrove, in Sydney's southern suburbs — a road that looks much smaller on the map in the new
Oh, Calcutta! City of Joy Patrick Swayze in a film by Roland Joffe Reviewed by Brian Brunton If you think of City of Joy as Hollywood's Salaam Bombay 2, you've got most of it. But not all. Because this is a movie that tells us almost as
By Andrew Nette and Angela Savage BANGKOK — On May 18, we were close to Rajdamoen Avenue, where police and the military had opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators the night before, and where protesters were still holding out. The
Helmi Fauzi, an activist in Indonesia's pro-democracy and environment movements, has been speaking to students and environmental activists in Australia about the political and economic situation in Indonesia. His tour was organised by AKSI
By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — On June 13, 350 residents and workers rallied outside Premier Joan Kirner's office in Williamstown to oppose a proposed expansion of the Mobil oil refinery. The working-class western suburbs have long been a
Unflagged "Nobody can determine for the country what is immoral or scandalous, therefore this law is unconstitutional." — US lawyer David Cole after the Old Glory Condom Corporation, set up by artist and AIDS activist Jay Critchley, was
ALEXANDER BUZGALIN is a professor of economics at Moscow State University and one of the leaders of the Party of Labour. BORIS SLAVIN is a political commentator for the newspaper Pravda and a member of the Russian Party of Communists. VADIM
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