The Coming Out Show — The Life of Gloria Lee, an 85 year-old whose mother was an Aboriginal woman of the Western Arrente people; her father was Chinese. This programs follows Gloria through her childhood in Alice Springs, her adolescence in China
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By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — On January 17, only a week before the start of the school term, the Directorate of School Education finally announced some details on the proposed Richmond coeducational facility.
The announcement was made nearly
Supermarkets break trading laws
By Kest Courtice
HOBART — Tasmania's Purity supermarket chain opened all day on Saturday, January 8, contravening Tasmanian law. On the following Saturday, Coles also opened all day.
The Retail
CAPOW conference
By Kath Tucker
The first conference of the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW) was very successful, conference organiser Ingrid Fitzgerald told Green Left Weekly.
CAPOW is a network of
By Annolies Truman
SYDNEY — Calls for the formation of an indigenous Australian church, compulsory Aboriginal and Islander studies in theological colleges and the enactment of a "Social Justice Package" to address needs not met by the Native
CLAUDETTE BEGIN and ALEX CHIS are both members of the Committees of Correspondence, a 2000-strong socialist regroupment project in the US. In Australia for the Democratic Socialist Party's annual conference, they spoke to FRANK NOAKES and CATHERINE
To mark the 206th anniversary of the beginning of the European invasion of Australian, we asked a range of people from the Aboriginal community to comment on what was or wasn't accomplished in the International Year of Indigenous People, and on the
By Andrew Hall
The final figures have now been released regarding the South Australian state elections on December 11, in which the Liberals swept the Labor Party aside with a landslide result.
However, Liberal control of both houses of
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — Not so long ago, all that most Russians knew of serious infectious diseases was what they read in the classics of their national literature. After surviving a bout of typhus, Tolstoy's heroine Anna Karenina had
Playland
Written and directed by Athol Fugard
With John Kani and Sean Taylor
Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
Reviewed by Jorge Sotirios
Athol Fugard has written many a play which resonates with a commitment to the plight of the oppressed in