Open Learning — Writing the Nation: Australian Literature to 1950 — Coonardoo, a novel by Katharine Susannah Prichard, a feminist and communist, shocked readers in the 1930s with its central theme of sexual relationships between black and white
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By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The Court Liberal government is attempting to dismantle the infrastructure that has been built up in the last decade to resolve occupational health and safety issues. The aim of the changes will be to shift more
By Lyndall Barnett
MELBOURNE — Australia's largest community circus, the Women's circus, has been presented by the Footscray Community Arts Centre to Melbourne audiences for the past four years. Last year, the circus attracted a total
By Peter Montague
The New York Times recently described a dark trend. In the US, and overseas, the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the people in the middle are becoming less and less secure about their future. And
NSW teachers vote to strike
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — By a vote of 98%, NSW teachers at statewide stop-work meetings on November 10 endorsed a wage campaign of 10%, backed by a 24-hour strike on November 23. The meetings had
FMLN commander arrested
By Roberto Jorquera
On October 17, a Salvadoran judge ordered the arrest of Joaquin Villalobos, one of the five FMLN commanders and leader of the ERP. Villalobos was charged with the offence, of
By Malik Miah
SAN FRANCISCO — US voters on November 8 gave the Republican Party control of both houses of the US Congress. The last time the Republicans controlled Congress was in 1954.
President Bill Clinton's Democratic
Set down at the bottom of the system
Downset
Self-titled
Polygram
Reviewed by Jean-Paul Nassif
Downset is a mixture of Consolidated (a socialist industrial/rap/thrash band), Pantera, "Rage Against the Machine and
Goss drops freeway publicity
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The Goss government has shelved plans for early public consultation in planning Brisbane's next major freeway.
Publication of a map showing the likely route of
Billy Hughes
I hear the WWF will put W.M.(Billy) Hughes in the famous wharfies' mural at 63 Sussex St.,Sydney.
Billy Hughes tried to conscript all of Australia's youth for the human slaughter-house in France. He tried to
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — To know their conditions of life are bad and getting worse, women in today's Russia do not need graphs, maps or statistical tables. Nevertheless, the newspaper Segodnya performed a useful service recently
IYF: plaything of politicians and media
By Melinda Jollie
As we draw toward the end of the International Year of the Family, it is difficult to retain any of the initial optimism generated by the "reform" rhetoric of
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