Strawberry and Chocolate
By Thomas Gutierrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio
Showing in Sydney's Mardi Gras Film Festival, February 16-26
To be followed by seasons in Sydney and Melbourne
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Several recent movies have
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By Lisa Macdonald
In direct response to the battle over the federal government's woodchip export licences decision, the environment movement will be back on the streets of most of the nation's capitals over the next two weeks.
The plans for
Green Left Weekly has passed a further milestone in its publishing as an independent progressive newspaper. Recently, the millionth copy rolled off the presses.
Sometime late in 1994, Green Left entered a very exclusive club of progressive
An unprecedented development is evident in Israel. A challenge is being mounted to the founding ideology of the state, Zionism. A key factor in this challenge has been the writings of what have been called the new or revisionist Israeli historians.
Women with a message
Difficult Women
With Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce
At Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Carlton, until February 25
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Following successful seasons and the Edinburgh and Vancouver Arts Festivals,
By Boris Kagarlitsky and Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — During the Gorbachev years, the popular Russian journalist Alexander Kabakov published a science fiction story entitled The Non-Returnee, in which he described the horrors of life after
Women oppose new Criminal Code
By Kerry Vernon
Brisbane — A broad coalition of women's and legal groups has been formed to expose the inequities for women in the proposed new Criminal Code and to stop the Queensland government from
WA DSS delegates oppose redundancies
By Jonathan Strauss
PERTH — Community and Public Sector Union delegates in the Department of Social Security decided on February 7 to oppose redundancies proposed by DSS Area North (covering the
Movie: Indochine (1992) — The turbulent relationship between a French mother and her adopted Vietnamese daughter against the backdrop of the growing liberation struggle in the 1930s. ABC TV, Friday, February 17, 8.30pm.
Actively Radical TV —
The last dance
The Last Supper
Canada, 1994
Directed by Cynthia Roberts
Starring Ken McDougall
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
The Last Supper promises to be one of the highlights of the 1995 Mardi Gras Film Festival. It takes the
Arbitration in DEET dispute
By Paul O'Brien
CANBERRA — Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) staff in the ACT voted for a national delegates committee recommendation to lift all bans and other industrial action on
No exceptions
"Anything is available to be sold if the price is right." — Ron Ward, general manager of TNT Harbourlink, which owns the Sydney monorail, on suggestions that the eyesore might be removed by government.
Read my intentions
"We
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