Brisbane police
I'm not surprised by the events of November 8 in Brisbane. There has since been much discussion regarding the general police attitude to Aboriginal people in Queensland. The police believe that relations have improved in recent
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Melbourne residents fight boundary changes
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — With its City of Melbourne Bill about to become law, the state government of Jeff Kennett is making drastic changes to local government.
The bill is about
By Arun Pradhan
ADELAIDE — Despite the establishment media's focus on the two major parties, the vast disillusionment in these parties is reflected in the large number of alternative candidates contesting the upcoming state elections.
The
John Romeril
Edited by Gareth Griffiths
Australian Playwrights Series, No. 5
Editions Rodopi B.V. 1993
Reviewed by David Adamson
This is a generous, well-compiled and broad-ranging account of one of Australia's most significant and
Imagined Communities
By Benedict Anderson
Verso, 1993. $32.95
Reviewed by Jeremy Smith
This is the second edition of Anderson's quite original piece on the emergence of nationalism as a form of mass consciousness.
It is the second
By Max Lane
The Suharto regime in Jakarta seems unable to end the resistance to Indonesian occupation in East Timor or bring to an end the international diplomatic controversy about the occupation. The regime continues to pretend that things are
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For Russian trade unions, the coup d'etat launched and consolidated by President Boris Yeltsin between September 21 and October 4 dramatically increased the difficulties of defending jobs, wages, social benefits and
Gerard Hopkins
Ireland and violence
Irish Republicans take no satisfaction in tragedies like that which occurred on the Shankill Road on October 23. No matter how many times we reiterate that statement, it will fall on deaf ears. Every
Amazon peoples take Texaco to court
By Penny Saunders
QUITO — Representatives of several groups of indigenous peoples from the Ecuadorian Amazon region left for New York on November 3 to begin court action against the US oil company
By Desmond Dawson
Last April the federal government commissioned the Wool Industry Review Committee on sloppy terms of reference; the August reply has been accepted by government, the Australian Wool Industry Commission and, with reservations,