By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — If you talk to a young person serving in one of the commercial kiosks that line the main streets of Russian cities, the chances are rather high that he or she will turn out to be a student in a local university or
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By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — Just three days before the release of the Criminal Justice Commission report into the death of Aboriginal dancer Daniel Yock in police custody on November 7, another Aborigine died in police custody here.
Kurt Cobain
By Sean Healy
On April 9, Kurt Cobain, lead singer of the rock group Nirvana, killed himself with a shotgun. A suicide note, found next to his body, said, "It's better to burn out than to fade away".
Cobain had only just
By Jo Obronschka
NEWCASTLE — Environmentalists and concerned residents are outraged at a proposal to allow a new township of 17,000 people to be built on a coastal dune area at Fern Bay, 15 kilometres north of here.
The council has asked
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
As most nations
Ambushing the media
By Chris Spindler
ADELAIDE —"... exciting ... innovative ... raw ... pulsing with political debate", states the fresh press release for Ambush street theatre's latest production That Was, The Week, That Was or TW3.
The mass left split in the Philippines Communist Party (CPP) which has rejected the CPP leadership's Maoist program and declared itself a democratic socialist tendency, has shaken up the entire Philippines left. Supporters of hardline Maoist and CPP
By Kath Kenny
SYDNEY — Private security is the second fastest growing industry in Australia after tourism, and Australia now has one of the highest rates of prisoners in private prisons in the world. Last week, John Hannaford, the NSW attorney
By Boris Kagarlitsky
MOSCOW — Every day, there are fewer people in Russia. The country has been seized by an unprecedented demographic decline. For the first time since the second world war, the number of deaths substantially exceeds the
More subtle these days
"A quarter of a century ago the Australians who came here came in battle dress. They now come dressed for business." — Prime Minister Keating in Vietnam.
Mystery
"The resignations of cabinet members Graham Richardson
Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War
By Rick Atkinson
Harper Collins, 1994. 504 pp. $39.95
Reviewed by Paul Hemphill
In the disturbing documentary The Panama Deception, one of the very few instances of wry humour related to
King Lear
Directed by David Ritchie
New Theatre, King St, Newtown
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
Sydney's New Theatre continues its long tradition of good performances of classics to complement its contemporary, Australian and progressive
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