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Dancing on the Edge Los Bobos Cosmicos Self-financed release through Disculture Reviewed by Norm Dixon This is the first release by a new distribution company, Disculture, that specialises in promoting "self-dependent" artists — artists
Is Every Sperm Sacred? — Written and performed by Irene Stephanou, a South African of Greek descent. A funny and furious dissection of the "new" South Africa. ABC Radio National, Friday, February 24, 9.30pm. Womadelaide live — For all those
By Craig Cormick Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe. Banks
By Rob Miller With the ALP federal government planning to cut expenditure, funding for higher education is under further threat. The preparations for further cutbacks began in 1994 with the commissioning of reports on "Resource Allocation in
By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — WOMAD '95 (in Botanic Park, February 24-26) promises to be a more exciting and diverse event as its reputation grows on the international music scene. The International Year of Tolerance and beginning of the
BRISBANE — Queensland Council for Civil Liberties vice-president Terry O'Gorman has blasted a new Criminal Justice Commission report which calls for power for itself and state police to seek Federal Court approval to tap telephones in the course of
British companies in Amazon mahogany rip-off Friends of the Earth revealed on February 13 that British companies are continuing to buy mahogany that has been illegally cut from the Amazon rainforests of Brazil. Official Brazilian government
Gatton Man By Merv Lilley McPhee Gribble. 194 pp., $17.95 Reviewed by John Tognolini "I'm past seventy. I was, in a sense, born with a task. I was born twenty-one years after the event. I am the only person left on earth who could write
Over the last week, the media have been following the struggle of media magnate Kerry Packer in his quest to be the first person in Australia to own everything. Packer's "assault" on the Fairfax newspaper empire has been heralded as the greatest

Across India, more than 40 million children work in industries making such products as bangles, fireworks, matches, carpets, glass, hosiery and leather.

Poem: How to write headlines that will sell the paper By Rosemary Evans Pregnant Nun Accused of Arson _> Drunk MP Drives Over Bridge Prostitute Shoots One-Legged Parson _> Headless Body Found in Fridge. Goldie Hawn Weds Boris
Hindmarsh bridge victory turns sour By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — "Today [February 15] is a sad day for Aboriginal people in this country and in particular Aboriginal women because Justice O'Loughlin in the Federal Court in Adelaide made