WA meatworkers strengthen leadership
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Elections in the meatworkers union here have consolidated the team around branch secretary Glenn Ferguson.
Ferguson originally won his position 18 months earlier, but
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Residents slam Lang Park takeover
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Milton and Paddington residents outraged at the state government decision to fast-track redevelopment of the Lang Park rugby league stadium met on November 19 and called on the
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Hindmarsh Island is a picturesque spot near Goolwa on the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide. Still home to some of the indigenous people, it is also a popular holiday area for boating, fishing, swimming and
Is Cuba a racist country, denying equality to the considerable black portion of its population? Yes, say the New York Times and many books and articles appearing in the United States. But wait. The US is still fighting a cold war against Cuba, and such accusations are surely suspect. We spent 10 days in Cuba earlier this year to learn for ourselves.
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory
By Deborah Lipstadt.
New York: The Free Press, 1993. 278 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Did the Holocaust — the systematic annihilation of 4-6 million Jews under
ACOSS aims wide
"At least initially, someone will have to reduce their disposable incomes if job opportunities and working hours are to be shared more widely and the needed expenditure measures financed." That sounds familiar: is it another
50% of the spoils?
No doubt the 40 serving and former women Labor MPs who met in Perth on the weekend of November 13-14 to plot their campaign for 50% of state and federal Labor parliamentarians to be women by the year 2000, will be expecting
Doubts over Mt Lofty Ranges strategy
ADELAIDE — The Mt Lofty Ranges, the hills face zone surrounding Adelaide and providing its water catchment, was the subject of a multimillion-dollar review begun in 1987 and completed in October. Attempts
Wait for the surprises
Red Rock West
A film By John Dahl
At Melbourne's Cinema Nova and Valhalla
Reviewed by Alex Cooper
Red Rock West, the latest offering from John Dahl and his brother Rick, centres on Michael (played by Nicholas
Writers Defiled: Security Surveillance of Australian Authors and Intellectuals 1920-1960
By Fiona Capp
McPhee Gribble, 1993. 239 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Intelligence organisations are in the business of "security", which,
By Dave Wright
HOBART — The Groom Liberal government is trying to cut the number of members in the House of Assembly from 35 to 30. The effect will be to weaken significantly Tasmania's democratic proportional representation voting system.
Get your action on TV
ASEED UK is inviting campaign groups from around the world to send in video material for Hot Spots — a weekly five minute radical environmental activist bulletin to be shown on Sky Television.
Sky TV is a satellite
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