Old and new, both good
Second Wind
The Best of the '80s
Judy Small
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg
Judy Small's latest album, produced as she turns 40, reflects a shift in focus for her musical style.
In 1992,
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Bombing cover-up charged
By Frank Noakes
LONDON — A program aired on British television on July 7 claims that suspects in the bombing of Dublin and Monaghan in 1974 were never interviewed despite being known to the police.
The two
By Anne Casey
Three years ago the Australian government put a moratorium on food irradiation and on the import of irradiated food. Today, serious and unresolved questions about the issue remain.
The government commissioned the World
Worker dried in sun
Three hundred workers in a garment factory in Jakarta protested recently after the factory management forced a worker to stand several hours in midday sun as punishment.
The worker, Muhana, a woman in her 20s, had
The dancer who survived
The Tenth Dancer
A film by Sally Ingleton
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Most of us are aware of the recent history of Cambodia, and the appalling devastation wreaked on that country by the Pol Pot regime. One
As mining companies and reactionary politicians seek to portray Aborigines as threats to the "backyards" of home owners, the sad truth is that too many of Australia's traditional owners do not even have a roof over their heads. In Brisbane's
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Public sector workers have been the first victims of the state Labor government's attempts to solve its economic problems. The government announced in its April economic statement that 3000 jobs would be cut
Comment by Michael Karadjis
Two million Bosnians have been driven from their homes, and hundreds of thousands are dead. Ninety per cent of Bosnia is under occupation by militias sponsored by Serbia and Croatia which openly aim to split the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — On July 1, 700 teaching staff at the elite Moscow State University held an unprecedented demonstration demanding prompt payment and indexation of salaries. Similar actions, coordinated by the Moscow Council of
Seeing Voices
Seeing Voices: A journey into the world of the deaf
By Oliver Sacks
Picador. 181 pp. $13.00
Reviewed by Dave Riley
This book is not as esoteric as the subject may seem, nor is it a voyeuristic peak at the disabled.
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