By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — Twenty-four workers at the Jervis Bay naval training base, HMAS Creswell, have been on strike since September 9. They are maintaining a 24-hour picket line in the dispute over Defence Department plans to contract
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International Playhouse: Every Traveller Has Some Luggage — A radio play by Carlos Cerda. Chilean writer Carlos Cerda spent 10 years in political exile in Germany. He returned to Chile in 1984 to write this play. The play's main character finds the
By Dave Riley
Australia is home to 17 million people and 24 million cattle. On a cowpat ratio, that's one of the highest proportions of cattle to people in the world. In Queensland, beef cattle outnumber humans by more than two to one.
In
Darwin Reclaim the Night
DARWIN — The Reclaim the Night march will take place here on Friday, October 29.
The March starts at 7.30 p.m. at Raintree Park with marchers making their way to the Workers Club for a night of celebration, music
By Norm Dixon
SOWETO — As preparations for South Africa's first non-racial election gather pace, 1600 delegates attended a special Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) congress on September 10-12. Discussion focused on COSATU's role
By David Robie
PORT MORESBY — A manoeuvre by Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis. The move follows growing unrest about Wingti's plans to abolish the nation's provincial government
Story by Laura Bahnisch
Photo by David Dettrick
HOBART — More than 300 people rallied on October 13 and marched to the office of local MP Duncan Kerr (for Denison) to protest against the Labor government's education policy and call for free
The personal and the political
Robyn Habel
Robyn Habel
Produced by Terry Bradford and Stuart Day
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg
It will be great news to many women in Adelaide that Robyn Habel has released a CD in her
Referendum on voting system
By Kim Linden
UCKLAND — There are two votes for New Zealanders on November 6, one to elect a government and the other to decide how governments are elected in the future.
The choice in the referendum is
And the Ass Saw the Angel
A play by Black Hole Productions
Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, until Oct 30
Reviewed by Lachlan Anderson
This play is an adaptation of the macabre novel by Australian rock musician Nick Cave. The story
By Catherine Brown
The past year has been a bad one for the Catholic Church hierarchy. In the Catholic heartlands, in so far as there are any these days, popular support for the "moral fads" which Pope John Paul II attacks in his new encyclical
The Vatican
Vatican City is an independent state with a population of roughly 1000 people, who are principally Vatican employees, including a large number of priests and nuns.
The pope is the monarch for life of the Vatican. The state is
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