MELBOURNE — The choice of former Labor premier Joan Kirner as chair of this year's Reclaim the Night rally here ignores the anti-woman policies enacted by her government.
In her speech, Kirner
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With the plethora of reality TV, and thinly disguised corporate marketing, documentaries are bringing people back to cinemas. As the Melbourne Age's Larissa Dubecki wrote on May 11: "Reality TV's malaise might now be judged a
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Melbourne — A leaked government report, which was suppressed by both Labor and Liberal state governments, declares Mobil's Williamstown facilities and its controversial expansion plans unsafe. The report, released on
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Report supports saving Upfield train lineMELBOURNE — The Upfield rail line, which links the northern suburbs of Melbourne to the city, is threatened with closure by the Kennett government after years of neglect by
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A report published by the Australian Manufacturing Council last month, The Environmental Challenge: Best Practice Environmental Regulation, demands relaxation of environmental regulations which are alleged to be
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Swift response to Indonesian repressionMELBOURNE — The news that students at the Jakarta campus of the National Science and Technology Institute had been beaten and arrested by the Indonesian military for protesting
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The human rights situation in Indonesia in 1992 did not improve, according to the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH). The foundation, one of Indonesia's foremost non-governmental organisations, held a press conference
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East Timor on stageMELBOURNE — A new play on East Timor, staged by the Melbourne University Student Union Theatre, opens here on August 6. Zero Sum is based on the events surrounding the death of Kamal Bamadhaj, a
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MELBOURNE — The More Not Less Campaign (a coalition of 28 groups) and the Campaign Against Newstart are organising a "rank and file contingent" at the September 10 Jobs and Justice rally to demand a "militant
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The Indonesian Front for the Defence of Human Rights (INFIGHT) was formed in 1989 "to make a more democratic society in Indonesia, a society more respectful to basic human rights, especially basic community
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MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council and the Victorian Council of Social Services have scheduled a "Jobs and Justice" rally for September 10. The rally is one of several joint initiatives announced on August 26.
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Black Rain Directed by Shohei Imamura ReviewedIt was a hot, still day on August 6, 1945, when the A-bomb descended from the sky over Hiroshima. Imamura's masterful