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ACTU congress protests planned

By Lisa Macdonald SYDNEY — The defence of wages, conditions and trade union rights are the themes of a number of public actions being planned around the ACTU Congress to be held in Sydney from August 30 to September 3 this year. The

Sex, violence and surrealism

Surrealism: Revolution by Night Art Gallery of NSW July 30 to September 19 Reviewed by Zanny Begg Salvador Dali's famous utterance "the only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad" seems, in a peculiar way, to define

Franc falls, is US dollar far behind?

Franc falls, is US dollar far behind? By Stephen Millies NEW YORK — "Money does not smell", wrote the Roman historian Tacitus nearly 20 centuries ago. Whether or not this is true, money has to represent value. This is the root of the

By Karen Fredericks

By Karen Fredericks Last week in the South Australian Supreme Court Justice Derek Bollen, known for his "rougher than usual handling" judgment in a rape in marriage case last year, held that a survivor of domestic violence who killed her

The republic: Labor's new ideological consensus

By Pip Hinman Paul Keating's H.V. Evatt lecture last April — his first detailed public statement on Labor's "republican vision" — was awash with pronouncements about "reconciliation" with Aborigines, entreaties to forge a so-called

Working the land they own

Working the land they own The hidden face of land rights in NT By Alex Cooper The current public debate over the High Court's Mabo ruling has brought many racists out of the woodwork who claim that Aboriginal land rights will hold back

Prison campaign continues

Prison campaign continues By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — An inquiry by the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board into discrimination against women prisoners is to go ahead despite the failure of an injunction aimed at preventing the removal

South African Women's Day celebrated

South African Women's Day celebrated By Jane White PERTH — Working together, with much laughter and harmony, the ANC Support Group and Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (WACARE) women's day committee welcomed over 120 comrades and

Action updates

A meeting held here on August 2 attracted about 40 women to re-launch the Women's Liberation Organisation. The meeting flowed out of a forum held last June, which attracted 120 women, to discuss the fragmented state of the women's liberation

Environmental reporting

By Paula Nassif "We're not being protected ... those who are supposed to protect people from poison, just have not done the job... By and large, they're in bed; in cahoots with those doing the polluting." This damning comment was made by

US/UN out of Somalia!

US/UN out of Somalia! The United Nations/United States "peacekeeping" mission in Somalia stands exposed for the grisly farce it is. In a joint statement addressed last week to the UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 26

The first New Zealand film to

The Piano Written and Directed by Jane Campion Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin Reviewed by Noel Hester Who says that Australia doesn't have aspirations to be a regional colonial power? First, they plundered