Change for Sixpence
Where Sixpence Lives
By Norma Kitson
London: Chatto and Windus. 1986. 350 pp.
Reviewed by Connie Frazer
Not a new book, but one you can't put down. The intriguing title caught my eye as I entered the Adelaide
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By Karen Fredericks
Each working day those of us who have a job get up, shower, put on our clothes and travel to work. At morning tea we drink a cup of coffee, eat a cream cake or smoke a cigarette, worrying briefly about the state of our
On February 26, 1991 more than 700 gold mine workers at Vatoukoula, Fiji, downed tools and threatened never to return to work unless the Australian and New Zealand mine management recognised their union and negotiated on their claims. Twenty-seven
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Police on May 9 were unable to stop more than 50,000 opposition demonstrators from marching through the centre of the Russian capital and onto symbolically important Red Square.
Built around the anniversary of
Sacrifice
While the ACTU is determined to sacrifice wages for the sake of "the economy", some of the highest salary earners in the country don't have the same approach to their incomes. Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett (on $131,771 a year, plus
Language dispute in Xanana trial
By Jana D.K.
Jakarta — Proceedings in the trial of Fretilin leader Xanana Gusmao resumed May 12 after a week's delay while the Dili court attempted to resolve the question of Xanana's defence
Non-stories
Stop the presses! Hold the front page! An advertising billboard featuring a near-naked human body has been erected in inner-city Melbourne and there has been no protest!
Oh yeah, big news.
On a railway hoarding in the
Gay man murdered in Adelaide
By Alison Dellit
ADELAIDE — A homosexual man was murdered here last week, exactly 21 years after the infamous drowning of Dr George Duncan.
Duncan, a gay professor at Adelaide University, was bashed and
Someone's going to get hurt ...
Dead Lines
Written by Kate Gillick
Directed by Robin Laurie
Performed by Stephen Burton, David Joseph, Lisa Small and Phil Sumner
Musicians: Shirley Billing, Rachel Cogan and Irine Vela
At the
Tongan democrats seek support
Leading Tongan democracy activist Akilisi Pohiva has indicated that the pro-democracy movement is changing its strategy.
Pohiva said on April 28 that, instead of pushing for more democracy solely from within
By Jonathan Strauss
May 3
Nanterres University in Paris was closed by its administration to stop a second day of "anti-imperialist study". In the courtyard of the Sorbonne, the university in central Paris, 500 left-wing students rallied
Rape Crisis Centre to close
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Workers at the Rape Crisis Centre learned of its end in a blunt fax from the minister for family and community services, Martin Evans, on May 12. The centre will be amalgamated
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