By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — Recent cuts to the Victorian ambulance service has cost lives, according to the Ambulance Employees Association. Within one week there were three "avoidable" deaths of people in their 20s and 30s.
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By Pip Hinman
"The policy of detaining people seeking refugee asylum in this country harms those detained and cannot be justified", said Greens (WA) Senator Christabel Chamarette as she tabled her dissenting report on the Joint Standing
With his latest Looking Out column, Brandon Astor Jones appended a small note. It requested that his subscription to Green Left Weekly be sent care of his attorney in future.
It seems that Jones' column of February 2, entitled "The keepers and
After 14 years, the landmark Jobs for Women campaign against BHP has formally drawn to a close. Each of the more than 700 women who filed sex discrimination claims against the company for its employment policies of the 1970s and '80s has received
By Norm Dixon
A high-spirited group of young South Africans, mostly in their teens, had spent the day campaigning in the southern Natal village of Mahehle. Keen to participate in South Africa's first democratic election, they had put up many ANC
Adelaide Festival 1994 — Two Worlds' Music — From Japan, this is the first half of a concert recorded on March 8 and features the magical sound of the sho, a 17-pipe mouth organ played by Mayumi Miyata. ABC Fine Music, Wednesday and Thursday,
By Katrina Dean
[This is the edited text of a speech given to the February 26 Hobart rally against ocean dumping of Jarosite wastes by Pasminco Metals-EZ.]
On hot days, I often think about going for a swim. I go down to the beach, but I
US left
Having friends in the U.S.A. with roughly the same politics as myself has meant that we regularly swap information about local and international events.
The latest news concerning Cuba, El Salvador and Guatemala might be of interest
The Morning After: Sex, Fear, Feminism
By Kate Roiphe
Hamish Hamilton, 1993. 180 pp. $18.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Zanny Begg
From the ivory towers of Princeton, Kate Roiphe has let loose a tirade against the women's movement. Her book The
Raining Stones
Directed by Ken Loach
Screenplay by Jim Allen
Dendy Cinema, Sydney, from March 17
Reviewed by Claudine Holt
Raining Stones is a funny and humane film portraying the life of one working-class family in Lancaster. It neither
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