North Korea: don't be confused
"Chaos. Corruption. Civil war. He's back to lay down the law" runs the promo for Hollywood's latest extravaganza of violence, Robocop 3. It just about describes US policy on North Korea.
The US-supported
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Environmental rally
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — Nearly 500 people gathered for a rally outside Parliament House on March 24 to oppose the Hindmarsh Island Bridge project, the Craigburn Farm subdivision and the development of the Mt
Rail workers picket Goss
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — More than 100 angry rail workers booed Queensland Premier Wayne Goss outside a Labor Party function in Townsville on March 23 over plans to close the Townsville railway workshops by the
The Pelican Brief
With Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington
Reviewed by Arun Pradhan
It sounds like a good idea: rework the familiar Watergate plot, get some big names like Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, chuck in some suspense and
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Years ago, it would have been sensational news. The Russian state authorities, President Boris Yeltsin announced on March 9, would not import grain in 1994. The country, he explained, had sufficient reserves to last
By Sri Kristianti
JAKARTA — Well-known sociologist and lecturer George Aditjondro has publicly criticised the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Aditjondro, from the prestigious private Satya Wacana University in Java and a popular columnist
Philadelphia
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Starring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
Reviewed by Russell Pink
Since the AIDS pandemic began, more aware or bolder film producers have noticed the potential of the screen for enlarging
'Revivalist meetings'
Environmental activists George Marshall and Brent Hoare will be whizzing around Australia throughout April to hold "evolutionary revivalist meetings" with as many people as possible who are interested in striving to ensure
NINA LANSBURY, who visited Vietnam in December-January, reports on the country's environmental problems and opportunities.
Speaking with a visiting environmental economist from the University of Hong Kong, it was encouraging to hear him talk
By Sean Healey
Greens (WA) Senators Dee Margetts and Christabel Chamarette released their submission on the 1994-95 federal budget on March 22.
In their initial response to the government's Draft Fiscal Framework, the WA Greens said that
Starcke: 'Historic alliance'
By Nick Everett
BRISBANE — One hundred and twenty people attended a March 21 meeting here organised by the Wilderness Society to protest against the proposal by the Goss government to establish a 10,000
Comment by Max Lane
Senator Graham Richardson, 44, is retiring from politics, probably to enter business. This is symbolic of the likely new niche that parliament will have in the career paths of those who enter the service of big business in
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