On September 15 a PNG police riot squad detained, interrogated and severely beat Gewai Dusty Zamunu, a village leader and project manager working for a joint Rainforest Information Centre and Village Development Trust community development and
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By Lucifer Skycrawler
While you have been planning this or wishing for that, the stars have been organising your life — and do you think they give a stuff about what you want? To find out what location in the Celestial Sump has been reserved
Radiance
By Louis Nowra
Directed by Rosalba Clemente
With Rachael Maza, Lydia Miller and Rhonda RobertsBelvoir Theatre, Sydney, to October 17. Reviewed by Zanny Begg
Radiance is a play about the search for self identity. Set in North
By Ana Kailis
The Alliance, a coalition of progressive parties, has announced a platform of six basic principles for the November 6 New Zealand election.
Formed in 1991, the Alliance groups NewLabour (a left split from the Labour Party),
Genetics and sexuality
By Daisy Kiriakidis
MELBOURNE — Experiments to seek out a "gay gene" were the topic of a public meeting organised here by the Democratic Socialist Party on September 24. About 60 people discussed contributions by
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — In November, thousands of long-term injured workers will be pushed from Victoria's WorkCover scheme onto Social Security benefits. Before then, thousands more will be encouraged to jump with lump sum pay-outs of up
Close to Eden (Urga)
A film by Nikita Mikhalkov
At the Kino, Melbourne, from September 17
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Nikita Mikhalkov says that he is an unashamedly sentimental Russian. Something about Mongolia, he explains, stirred his
For three weeks in late June and early July, Ecological Enterprises, a Papua New Guinea and United States-based rainforest preservation group, worked in East New Britain, home an incredibly diverse ecosystem. However, East New Britain is also one of
WA Greens Senator CHRISTABEL CHAMARETTE recently visited Aboriginal communities in the state's north to consult with them on land rights and the government's Mabo legislation. She was interviewed in Perth for Green Left Weekly by MICHELLE HOVANE.
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