By Jorge Sotirios
CANBERRA — A slab of wood lies deep within the reddest of fibres of a beer-aged carpet. Amidst the remains of mud-encrusted boot marks and months-old spittle, a man is drawn towards it. He touches it and his eyes light up.
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Officials 'ignored' illegal sewer dumps
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Brisbane City Council staff have turned a blind eye to the dumping of huge amounts of illegal liquid waste into the city's sewerage system, a Criminal Justice Commission
The Coming Out Show — A rare in-depth interview with Ruth Park, one of Australia's most widely read and loved authors. ABC Radio National, Saturday November 13, 5.10 p.m. (repeated Thursday, November 18, 7.15 p.m.).
The Siege of Salman — The
Soweto Flying Squad
SBS television
Tuesday, November 16, 8.30 p.m. (8 in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
Soweto Flying Squad, a documentary by Britain's respected Channel 4, is a more sophisticated version of the many, mainly US-made,
By Sean Malloy
At least 65% of Palestinians in the occupied territories support the Palestinian-Israeli accords, according to the Centre for Palestinian Research and Studies.
The figures are based on a survey carried out by the centre in
Triumph clothing strike ends
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — More than 350 women at Triumph International women's underwear factories at Ipswich and Wynnum ended a nine-day strike on November 3, after gaining some improvement in the redundancy
[The author, ALAN WALD, travelled to Haiti in July on behalf of the Washington Office on Haiti as part of a civilian observer delegation to investigate human rights abuses.]
On September 30, 1991, Lt General Raol Cedras overthrew democratically
By Martin Khor
BANGALORE — Half a million Indian farmers took part in a day-long procession and rally in this south Indian city on October 2 to protest against proposals in the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
By James Basle
CANBERRA — Secondary Students Against Cuts (SSAC) is organising a strike on November 16 to protest against the ACT Labor government's education cuts. The radical youth movement Resistance is supporting and helping to organise
Playing God
The announcement that 20,000 Chinese students and their families, living in Australia at the time of the Tienanmen Square massacre, have been granted residency is a welcome one. Australia is doing no more than honouring a moral duty
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