Timorese guerillas stand firm
By Jon Land
Claims by the Indonesian military that it is scaling down operations in East Timor and that the armed wing of the East Timorese resistance, FALINTIL (Armed Forces for the National Liberation of East
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No Exit
By Jean-Paul Sartre
Directed by Paul Wishart
Seneca Productions
Polygot Theatre, 27A Cromwell Road, South Yarra, until September 10. Bookings (03) 686 6755
Reviewed by Daniel Board
Seneca Productions' performance of Jean-Paul
By Sally Thompson and Alex Bainbridge
MELBOURNE — In what has been described as "a great victory for civil rights", charges against the Austudy Five were dropped on September 1 after less than three hours in court and a two and a half year
By Sarah Stephen
CANBERRA — For the last four weeks, students at the Australian National University (ANU) have been organising a campaign against what appears to be a "litmus test" for the introduction of up-front fees in universities
By Catherine Brown
Only hours before the Irish Republican Army announced an "unconditional and open-ended cease-fire" on August 31, to take effect the following day, pro-British loyalist death squads declared that such an initiative would lead
Looking out: Learning & teaching
By Brandon Astor Jones
The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center (GDCC) is a prison situated about 50 miles south of Atlanta, the city and regional site of the 1996 Olympic Games. More than 1700 men
When R.J. Hawke did Woodstock
By Dave Riley
There he was on stage, gigging away after Jimmy Hendrix. What a festival! Three days, man. When Bobby Hawke fronts the band I tell you, you are in for some classic riffs. Mister Seventy-Four Per
Mother! The Frank Zappa Story
By Michael Gray
Plexus, 1994. 256 pp., $35 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer in December 1993, aged just 53, the world of cultural dissent lost one of its pioneering
Sam Wainwright
In early August, Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen, condemned to death by Islamic fundamentalists, arrived in Sweden where she is now sheltering. Nasreen invoked the wrath of the fundamentalists with the publication in
ADELAIDE — The South Australian government's Police Complaints Authority recorded 1133 complaints in the past financial year, an increase of almost 30% on the 1992-93 total. The most common complaints were demeanour, use of physical measures,