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By Kim Spurway SYDNEY — A five day festival celebrating community television, community arts and community issues will be held at the Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach, Wednesday-Sunday, February 2-6. Titled, "Small Screen: Big Picture", the
The Snapper Directed by Stephen Frears With Tina Kellegher, Colm Meaney and Ruth McCabe Dendy Cinema, Sydney Reviewed by Catherine Brown "Am I the only person in this house taking this seriously?", asks Dessie Curley (Colm Meaney) as his
By Helen Jarvis SYDNEY — Imagine 100 million tonnes of sand: that's what Metromix proposes to dredge from the seabeds offshore from Botany Bay, Cronulla and the Royal National Park (itself nearly 90% burnt out during the recent bushfires).
By Frank Enright "The war on Bougainville is the longest and bloodiest in the Pacific since World War II, and has cost thousands of lives. Little is known about the five year war because of a blockade imposed by Papua New Guinea on the island
By Jose Gutierrez Charles Edward Russell was one of the great US correspondents of the 1900s. He wrote for the New York Herald and was the author of several books, including The Uprising of the Many, Lawless Wealth, Songs of Democracy and Why I
Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary By Margaret Hooks Pandora, 1993. 227 pp., $45 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon In 1991, a photograph of a rose fetched $165,000 at a Sotheby's art auction. Not such an unusual example of the
Cuba, Colombia sign health accords HAVANA — The governments of Cuba and Colombia signed several important cooperation accords in the area of public health on January 10. According to one of the agreements, Colombia will purchase 2.5
Man vs dog By Brandon Astor Jones In Butts County, just 50 miles south of Atlanta, sits the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Centre. Today the sun is gently pressing its way through a dense cloud bank high above a hint of morning fog.
Brisbane Watch-house picket By Lynda Hansen BRISBANE — One hundred people gathered outside the Brisbane City Watch-house on Sunday, January 16, the same lockup to which Daniel Yock was brought after being arrested late last year. The
By John Tognolini "Objectivity" and "balance" are terms used by many journalists to cop out of stating the obvious: that Aboriginal people in Australia are the victims of institutionalised racism from police and prison officers, and that these

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