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Gaywaves

Gaywaves seeks lesbian members By Michael Schembri SYDNEY — Gaywaves, the first regular lesbian and gay radio program in Australia, was brought into being in November 1979, just over a year after the first Mardi Gras. It reflected the

The week that was

By Kevin Healy A week when Victorian minister for private transport Alan Brownie cleared up a small confusion. "The summer timetable ceased running some time ago", Brownie explained. "We changed the name." Alan's friend, Lou De

Chekhov well done

Chekhov well done Chekhov in Yalta By John Driver and Jeffrey Haddow Directed by Kevin Jackson The New Theatre, Newtown, Sydney Reviewed by Emlyn Jones The play is a comedy about the visit of members of the Moscow Arts Theatre to

Hunger strike against terror

Hunger strike against terror By Alex Bainbridge MELBOURNE — Ten women from the United Patriotic Women of Kurdistan began a hunger strike outside Parliament House here on January 25. The fast is in solidarity with a similar hunger

Pickets on Indonesia

Pickets were held last week, often outside Garuda Airlines offices, in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney to protest against the arrest of farmers and student activists in East Java, Indonesia. The 50 arrested were held for four days

Of hermaphrodite squids and Chartists

Darwin By Adrian Desmond and James Moore Penguin. 808 pp, $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley How could a wealthy, respectable gentleman of impeccable lineage and reclusive tastes claim in the 1830s that humans are descended from

Radio highlights

Screen: Charlie Chaplin — David Robertson, author of the biography of Chaplin and consultant to the film about the great left-wing comic actor, speaks to presenter Mary Colbert. The film, be released in Australia in February, is directed by

Hilton bombing victim calls for inquiry

By Sean Malloy SYDNEY — February 13 is the 15th anniversary of the Hilton Hotel bombing. The question of who bombed the Hilton has never been satisfactorily answered. Terry Griffiths was a police officer at the time and was seriously

Swords into ploughshares

Swords into ploughshares In the early hours of January 6, Chris Cole, a Christian peace activist, entered the British Aerospace (BAe) weapons factory in Stevenage in southern England and attacked the nosecones of fighter aircraft with

Hard times for Russian greens

Among the best-known of the younger leaders of the Russian environmental movement, SERGEI FOMICHOV is co-president of the League of Green Parties and of the radical environmental group, the Rainbow Keepers. He was interviewed in Moscow by Green

Write on

I = PAT revisited Allen Myers sophistic article dealing with Paul Ehrlich's I=PAT equation (GLW 20/1), is based on the specious argument that until a pure mathematical formula is provided, there is no real "proof" that the world's

Manila diary

ANDREW GARTON visited the Philippines during October to attend a conference of non-governmental organisations. He found time to investigate social and environmental issues. Manila must be the filthiest city I've ever visited. The trip from