The Mardi Gras Film Event
Feb 25 to March 3, at the AFI Cinema, Paddington
Presented by Queer Screen in association with Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
Previewed by Kath Tucker
The Mardi Gras Film Event, being organised in conjunction
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Ocean dumping slammed
By Stephen Bull
HOBART — About 100 people gathered outside federal Labor minister Duncan Kerr's office at lunchtime on February 11 to protest the against latest exemption granted to Pasminco Metals-EZ, which allows
By Lamoin Werlein-Jan
The December 20, 1989 US invasion of Panama was not about Manuel Noriega's involvement with the drug trade, protecting US lives or restoring democracy. These were only the excuses used to justify Washington's gross
By Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle
In the face of escalating protests, the Ramos government of the Philippines was forced to suspend an unpopular oil price rise on February 7. This followed a week of militant protests and the formation of the
Art in Australia
Imagine
SBS TV
Fridays at 7.30 p.m. (7 Adelaide) beginning February 18
Reviewed by Jill Hickson
Sponsored by the Australia Council of the Arts, this new series on Australian art and culture will combine a range of
By Kate Shannon
As the Bosnians in Sarajevo bury their dead from the recent massacre by Serb gunners, NATO has called on the Bosnian army within the besieged city to lay down its heavy weapons along with the Serbs surrounding the city. Both
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Aboriginal organisations have slammed Queensland Premier Wayne Goss's decision to order the rewriting of a draft year 5 social studies source book.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Consultative
My Mother Said
By Xenos
Distributed through Larrikin Entertainment
Reviewed by Ian Jamieson
The release of their second CD marks Xenos as a formidable band in traditional folk circles. Xenos — the name is a Greek word meaning "foreign
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — How democratic is a country in which a person who reveals breaches of an international agreement can be put on trial in a closed court, under secret laws and in violation of the constitution? That is the question
By Greg Ogle
ADELAIDE — This week the Magistrate's Court conducts another round of trials from last Easter's Nurrungar peace protest. More than 270 people were arrested and charged with trespass while protesting against the US base in the
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