By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
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Dundunbanza!
Sierra Maestra
World Circuit through Larrikin Entertainment
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
As the Adelaide WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) festival approaches, world music enthusiasts are licking their lips at the prospect of some of
Heavenly Creatures
Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson
Starring Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet
Produced by Wingnut Films
Reviewed by Jenny Long
Based on the true story made famous as one of New
By Max Lane
Renato Constantino Jr, president of the progressive federation of mass organisations Sanlakas and convener of the Asia Pacific Coalition on East Timor (APCET), has appealed to the pro-democracy movement internationally to support a
By Max Lane
In the Netherlands on January 23, the government of Portugal began action in the International Court of Justice against Australia for signing the Timor Gap Treaty with Indonesia. United Nations resolutions still recognise Portugal as
Looking out: We should ask ourselves: Why?
By Brandon Astor Jones
"Penology ... has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime ... a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety." — Paul Goodman
Public tenants union fights privatisation
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — Late last month the Kennett government defunded the Public Tenants Union (PTU) by putting the funding traditionally available to it up for tender.
The bulk of the
Roger Clarke continues a debate
Frank Noakes' letter (GLW #171) introduced a refreshingly reasonable note into our discussion of the ALP Left. His remark that Lenin "lived long ago and far away" is a fitting comment on the way that Lenin has
Times are hard in Cuba. The collapse of the socialist bloc has led to an estimated 85% drop in total external economic relations — that is exports, imports and foreign aid. The US trade embargo has been strengthened through the passage of the Torricelli Act, making it impossible for the West to make up for the bulk of the loss in trade with the socialist bloc.
Union takes anti-woodchipping stand
The construction division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has distanced itself from the recent activities of the union's forestry division in the woodchip debate.
Martin
By Lisa Renfrey
Penny Arcade's Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! was welcomed back in Sydney on February 4 by a packed and enthusiastic audience.
Written during the 1990 US arts censorship crisis to "stick it up the National Endowment for the
Hundreds of students at the Australian National University occupied the chancellery building for nine days last September in a battle to prevent the introduction of up-front fees for a postgraduate legal course. This struggle led to the holding of a
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