'Timor prospects good' — activist
By Bernie Brian
DARWIN — A well-known commentator on Indonesia and co-convenor of Aksi (Indonesia Solidarity Action), Max Lane, was here last week for a series of lectures.
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Green Left #158 reprinted the text of an Amnesty International statement on alleged violations of human rights in Cuba, and a response to that statement by Havana-based journalist Karen Wald. Both were carried on Pegasus, from which we obtained them,
Ladybird, Ladybird
Directed by Ken Loach
Screenplay by Rona Munro
Showing from mid-October at Dendy Cinema, Sydney
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
This is a sad tale of injustice at the hands of the British welfare bureaucracy.
RU486 ruling
By Kath Gelber
The misnamed Right to Life Association lost another battle last week when its court challenge to Australia's participation in World Health Organisation (WHO) trials of the so-called "abortion pill",
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — By the standards of most countries in most epochs, the Russian government, led for almost two years by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, should have perished long ago. It has survived largely by resorting to
By Alison Dellit
Not since the 1989 anti-HECS campaign in Melbourne, has there been a student struggle such as the "no fees campaign" at the Australian National University (ANU).
When ANU decided to impose a $5000 up-front fee
Sydney Uni Resistance activist MARINA CARMAN travelled to Canberra last week to participate in the ANU Chancellery occupation, and here describes its success in organising students to campaign against fees.
After the first few hours in the
Comment by Rebecca Meckelburg and Jen Crothers
HOBART — After six years of campaigning for gay law reform in Tasmania, the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group (TGLRG) has announced a victory with the release of the federal
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
By Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
Harper Collins, 1994. 278 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Stephanie Wilkinson
Whenever a United States death-row prisoner is
Improvements demanded on coastal conservation
By Margaret Allan
NEWCASTLE — A resolution proposing an environmentally responsible approach to coastal conservation was adopted by a meeting of more than 600 environmentalists and
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