An unsustainable industry
By Pip Hinman
The case for protecting Australia's old growth forests has tended to focus on the permanent ecological devastation caused by the industry. More recently, mounting evidence suggests that Australian
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Shearers union recognised
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — Following formal recognition of the Shearers and Rural Workers Union (SRWU) by the Victorian Employee Relations Commission on December 23, the union is now set to seek registration in
By Max Lane
SYDNEY — More than 2000 people attended a public lecture by Noam Chomsky on January 20 organised by the East Timor Relief Association. Chomsky devoted most of his lecture to exposing US and Western foreign policy in relation to
Art in the age of AIDS
Don't Leave Me This Way — Art in the Age of AIDS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Until March 5
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
At the opening night of this exhibition, Australian artist Brenton Heath-Kerr
Reprinted here are excerpts from the end of year message to East Timor solidarity supporters by imprisoned resistance leader Xanana Gusmao.
... Nineteen years have passed, and the most important difference to be noted is that the circumstances
Fear of Fifty
By Erica Jong
London: Chatto & Windus, 1994. 390 pp.
Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg
Pick up a copy of any of Erica Jong's novels and you will discover an intriguing world of sexual pursuits, bizarre characters and events, along
By Norm Dixon
Joe Slovo, national chairperson of the South African Communist Party and the country's most popular leader after President Nelson Mandela, was given a hero's send-off in Soweto on January 15. Slovo, born on May 25, 1926, succumbed
At the Black Pig's Dyke
Vincent Woods
Seymour Centre
Roll-a-Pea
Piotr Tomaszuk
Belvoir Street Theatre
Bacchae Burning by Water
Euripedes, Robbe-Grillet, Joyce, Koltes
Performance Space
Playing as part of the Sydney Festival and
The struggle of the Basque people for self-determination is one of Europe's most significant and protracted, yet little-publicised, conflicts. While in Madrid recently, Green Left Weekly's NORM DIXON spoke to KARMELO LANDA, a leader of the militant
By Kirsten Lacy and Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — The Wilderness Society held a public meeting here on January 11 in response to the woodchip export licences granted by the federal government. Following lively discussion, the 200 people attending
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