The Best of Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
Dolphin through BMG
Rhythm of Healing
West Nkosi
Earthworks/Virgin through Larrikin Records
Favourites
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Dolphin through BMG
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
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Through Aboriginal Eyes
By Anne Pattel-Grey
Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991. 159 pp.
Reviewed by Annolise Truman
This book, which details Aboriginal experience, much of it traumatic and death-dealing, not only presents historical and
Port Macquarie hospital dispute in court
By Anne Casey
The Port Macquarie Hospital Action Group was caught off guard on May 6 when bulldozers and other heavy machinery began clearing the site of the controversial new private hospital for
Poison in bore water
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Bore water in suburban Dianella has been found to be contaminated after lawns began dying. The WA Health Department and the Environmental Protection Authority have identified the herbicide
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — To the puzzlement of many observers, Russian President Boris Yeltsin during the first weeks after his April 25 referendum held off introducing the "tough measures" through which he had promised to "neutralise" the
By Peter Boyle
On May 13 the ACTU executive rejected a call by several unions covering low-paid workers for a national wage claim of $8 per week for workers who had not managed to strike enterprise bargains with their employers.
ACTU
Passion Fish
Written and directed by John Sayles
Starring Mary McDonnell and Alfre Woodard
Reviewed by Lee Wallace
The critics' pull quotes used to promote Passion Fish, the new film from the New York-based independent writer/director
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
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