Deep sea diving machismo
Dark Side of the Heart
A film by Eliseo Subiela and Roger Frappier
Screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Argentinean Eliseo Subiela, the producer of the
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Young people in the Netherlands have been at the forefront of resistance to the government's austerity program. In Amsterdam two leaders of the Dutch radical youth group Rebel, Barend de Voogd and Wilco Altena, talked with Green Left Weekly's
'You eat pesticides'
On June 29, the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released its long-awaited report — "Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children".
The NAS concluded that testing procedures for measuring
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — A mass meeting of cleaners from the NSW Cleaning Service (a state government department), on a 24-hour strike, filled the Sydney Town Hall to capacity on July 16. Numerous simultaneous meetings in country centres
Opposition to Mt Wellington plan
By Sarah Stephen
HOBART — A proposal to construct a cable car, revolving restaurant and artificial ski field on Mt Wellington — the beautiful, largely untouched, backdrop to the city — has state
By Norm Dixon
Moves are under way to begin negotiations between leaders of the independence-seeking Bougainville Interim Government, which controls much of the island, and Bougainvilleans representing those areas under PNG Defence Force
By Nick Fredman
LONDON — Key recommendations of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice are not only inadequate, but positively harmful to the rights of the accused, according to supporters of civil liberties here.
The royal
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Sun shines on British economy
By Frank Noakes
LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper slashed its price by 5 pence to 20 pence on July 12 in a bid to win back lost readership. "Well done Sun" it congratulated itself
Rally for peace in Bosnia
Story and photo
by Jon Lamb
SYDNEY — More than 800 people rallied and marched here on July 17 to protest against the continuing acts of violence and aggression towards women and children in
Persuasion
"Charm, persuasion, the telephone and supplies of Scotch." — A British government source listing the tools available to ensure a desired vote from hereditary members of the House of Lords. (The government later won the vote.)
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