By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — Sixty people gathered outside the Australian Defence Industries (ADI) plant in Footscray on July 25 to draw attention to Australia's continued role in the Bougainville war.
Organised by Australian
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SSS conference
I refer to Zanny Begg and Sam Wainwright's review of the recent SSS conference in Melbourne (GLW, July 21) and wish to express my disappointment at their narrow reporting and their conclusion that integrating approaches to
By Peter Lake
Nicotine skin patches are now available on the Australian market. Intended for people who want to stop smoking, the patches come with a kit which includes information booklets and a behaviour change contract to be countersigned
Workers seize equipment
ADELAIDE — Workers from a bankrupt crane hire firm have hidden hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment to guarantee that they will receive their redundancy payments.
The workers seized two 50-tonne
Bye Bye Blackbird
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison
Fantasy through Festival
First Meditations (for quartet)
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison
Impulse!/GRP through BMG Records
Reviewed
By Deb Sorensen in Kakadu National Park
Never smile at a crocodile,
No, you can't get friendly with a crocodile,
Don't be taken in by his (sic) friendly grin,
He's imagining how well you'll fit beneath his skin.
A generation of
In Australia in the 1990s it is easy to live under the comfortable misconception that the world is at peace. In fact there are some 30 major wars, wars in which more than 1000 people have been killed, presently being fought in locations such as
By Dave Riley
Hunger is a craving that demands gratification. For the infant, what we call hunger begins with diffuse discomfort which slowly, through the nurture of others, attains some meaning as a circuit of pain gratified by food.
By Dr Neil Ormerod
It is probably not an understatement to say that sexual abuse will be one of the key issues which the churches will have to deal with in the '90s. Recent media coverage, particularly the ABC program Compass, ("Conduct
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — Members of the Australian Services Union (ASU) employed by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV) in the La Trobe Valley went on strike for 24 hours at midnight on July 28. This followed a period of
Up in smoke
When lawyer Francis Scott Key, then moonlighting as a lyricist, wrote "The Star Spangled Banner", from the deck of a ship, surely he was inspired by sights and sounds of a new America's revolutionary struggle. The "red glare" of
Every sperm still sacred
The opposition of the Catholic Church to "artificial" forms of contraception first reached crusade proportions when churchmen became concerned at the "sexual licentiousness" made possible by improved contraceptive
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