By Max Lane
On April 3 Leopoldo "Comrade Hector" Mabalingan, a former commander of the Benahaw New People's Army (NPA) command, was shot dead by NPA units under the command of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leader Gregorio Rosal.
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Jervis Bay victory
By Jon Land
The federal government announced on April 20 that it will not go ahead with plans to relocate the East Coast Armament Complex (ECAC) at Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast. The state government has also proposed
By Michael Karadjis
When the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia declared independence in 1991, it appeared to most a simple matter of self-determination. A referendum endorsed it, and the majority of the people in the state have long called
By Tyrion Perkins
SYDNEY — "Resource Security Sucks" read the banner over a demonstration against the state government's proposed Timber Industry (Interim Protection) Amendment Bill. About 200 people attended the demonstration, organised by
Blue Murder
By Beatrix Christian
Starring Lucy Bell and Jacek Koman
Belvoir St Theatre until May 1
Reviewed by Mina O'Shea
Billed as "a contemporary Gothic peepshow", Blue Murder is a play haunted by women dripping with blood and a
NSW forest assessment challenged
The North East Forest Alliance has strongly criticised the April 14 announcement that the NSW State Forests environmental impact statement program will be "upgraded". NEFA described this as a token attempt to
Controversial film to be screened
SYDNEY — Resistance, a $6 million Australian epic film production, will screen at the AFI Cinema, Paddington Town Hall, on April 30.
This technically superb, wide-screen action thriller tells the story of
Telecom halts work at old brewery site
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Telecom has halted cable-laying at the old Swan Brewery site. The brewery, built on Aboriginal religious ground in the 1890s and virtually given to Multiplex Constructions
Several hundred people marched and rallied in Brisbane on Palm Sunday, calling for an end to the nuclear industry and nuclear weapons. Another theme of the rally was opposition to land mines and support of a campaign to clear land mines from
45D hits Hindmarsh
By Anthony Thirlwall
ADELAIDE — Residents, conservationists and unionists involved in protests against the building of the Hindmarsh Island bridge will be sued for unspecified damages by property developers Tom and
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