By Mustafa Al-Haj
Jneid Prison — Palestinian prisoners chose to sacrifice their freedom in their quest to fulfil the Palestinian dream. Such hope added fuel to the burning fires of the Intifada.
Dialogue, understanding and
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By Pip Hunter
SYDNEY — The damp but determined Fast for the Forest team announced on October 23 that they had collected 16,000 signatures calling for a moratorium on the logging and woodchipping of old growth forests.
Lisa,
Washington announces arrangements on migration of Cubans
The United States has announced a plan to grant 20,000 entry visas a year to Cubans requesting residence in the US, in compliance with the accord signed with Cuba on September 9 in
By Stephen Robson
PERTH — Ian who? Ian Taylor was the parliamentary leader of the WA ALP until his resignation on October 9. Following Carmen Lawrence's move to federal parliament in March, Taylor had been elected unopposed.
Police to be charged over abductions
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Six police officers here face charges of deprivation of liberty after they admitted dumping three Aboriginal children at Pinkenba, on the city's outskirts, as
ALICE SPRINGS — Aboriginal women, friends and supporters will gather on October 27 to celebrate the survival of Aboriginal women's law and culture. The celebrations will be hosted by the Alukura Council, which has designed, planned and developed
By Kest Courtice
Distorted, crunching, chainsaw-like guitars, drums like a jackhammer and vocals from hell. Someone once likened it to holding an electric drill against your forehead. Thrash music, hardcore, speed metal, call it what you
Hotspur
By Geoffrey Atherden
Starring Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald
Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House
Until December 10
Reviewed by Frank Noakes
Freddy Brown (Garry McDonald) enters stage left, quietly ushering
Graham Greene: The Man Within
By Michael Shelden
Heinemann, 1994. 537 pp., $45 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The left has got Graham Greene entirely wrong. According to Shelden's biography, Greene was no friend of
A look into privatisation
A glimpse of the wonders of privatisation was provided on October 17 when a report tabled in the NSW parliament by the auditor-general, Tony Harris, dredged up the scandal of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel and similar