Amen
"Kennett looks like he should have been on drugs." — Victorian Labor MLA Neil Cole, scoring a telling point in the debate on legalisation of marijuana.
Popular non-government
A New Zealand opinion poll in early January asked voters to
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War by other means
"America's ignoble isolation of Vietnam for the defeat it sustained in the Vietnam war is coming to an end — and not before time." responded the Australian editorial to the news that the US Senate had voted on January 28 to
By Dallas Rodgers
MELBOURNE — The Victoria Police are undertaking a six-month trial of a controversial chemical weapon. The police claim it's a non-lethal weapon for subduing violent criminals, but courts in the US, where the chemical is used,
Witness
An exhibition by Marija Zrno
February 1-6, in the crypt of St Mary's Cathedral
St Mary's Rd, Sydney
Reviewed by Jasmina Bajraktarevic
This is a confronting exhibition of images from the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
By Vesna Jankovic and Boris Raseta
ZAGREB — ARKzin (the name is a compound of two abbreviations — ARK for Anti War Campaign and zin for fanzine) is the monthly newspaper of Antiwar Campaign Croatia (AWC).
Between September 1991 and May
NZ: Alliance support increases
By Frank Enright
In the weeks following the November 6 general election, which radically changed the shape of New Zealand politics, support for the 20,000-strong progressive coalition, the Alliance, climbed
Wilderness Society blockades forests
By Kest Courtice
HOBART — The Wilderness Society (TWS) blockaded a new logging road in Tasmania's southern forests from January 24 to 26. Public attention was focused on the action when ALP Senator
This summary of developments relating to the death penalty was compiled by Amnesty International.
Jamaica
On November 2, 1993, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London (which remains the final court of appeal for 16
Frank Hardy
Frank Hardy, novelist, political activist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights, died of a heart attack at his home in the Melbourne suburb of North Carlton on Friday, January 28, aged 76.
As a writer, Hardy was probably best
A leading member of the Green Party of California, HANK CHAPOT, says the that the pendulum of debate in the United States has swung away from the far right of the political spectrum, where it had rested under former presidents Reagan and Bush.
Brandon Astor Jones
Re your column "Looking out" by Brandon Astor Jones, a death row prisoner in Georgia, U.S.A. You may not be aware that Brandon has been imprisoned for over 14 years and during all that time he has not seen any member of his
Beat the Border
Geoffrey Oryema
Real World through Larrikin Entertainment
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
"African music" and "World music" are wholly inadequate terms to describe Geoffrey Oryema's beautifully crafted album. Lazy or ignorant record
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