Forum discusses censorship
By Kathy O'Driscoll
SYDNEY — In response to a move by the chief censor to ban a film from the recent Mardi Gras Film Festival, festival organisers Queer Screen held a forum on censorship and the media on
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More action on racetrack
By Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — Seven hundred people braved the heat on March 4 to protest against construction of the Grand Prix racetrack at Albert Park. A fortnight earlier, 1000 protesters had stopped work on the
Vengeful goddess
Bandit Queen
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Starring Seema Biswas and Nirmal Pandey
At Sydney's Mandolin Cinema and Melbourne's Kino Cinema
Reviewed by Karl Miller
This film is based on the prison diaries of Phoolan
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — You've got a mountain of highly toxic industrial waste, which can't be reprocessed at a profit. It can be kept from contaminating the environment only if you're prepared to foot a heavy bill. What do you do?
Thank you
Back in December, the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center imposed a letter writing ban that prohibited all of Georgia's prisoners from writing letters to our contacts, friends and supporters overseas. On February 23, 1995,
By Chris Spindler
SYDNEY — Standing in the seat of Marrickville in the NSW state elections for the Democratic Socialists is prominent women's activist Karen Fletcher. Fletcher was centrally involved in the International Women's Day organising
Wearing of the Green — St Patrick's Day is remembered with special folk and choral music. ABC Classic FM, Friday, March 17, 7.05pm.
Sunday Concert: Rory McLeod — The multi-instrumental musical nomad brings his politically aware,
Huxley: The Devil's Disciple
By Adrian Desmond
Michael Joseph, 1994. 475 pp., $40.00 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Charles Darwin fretted for 20 years about publishing revolutionary materialist theory of the evolution of species. If all
St Patrick's Day special: The Chieftains — The Irish folk legends recorded live at the Grand Opera House in Belfast. SBS, Friday, March 17, 12.30pm.
Unearthing the Slave Trade — The excavation of sites in New York City have shed new light on
MELBOURNE — Fifty students from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and other campuses protested at the inauguration of Sam Smorgan (of Smorgan Smallgoods) as chancellor of RMIT on March 10. The rally was part of the preparation for the
Rank and file discuss woodchip crisis
By Andrew Hall
SYDNEY— A lively "jobs and environment" meeting organised by the Rank and File Alliance was attended by more than 50 people on March 4.
Gavin Hillier, the NSW secretary of the
Beyond Blood: writings on the lesbian and gay family
Louise Wakeling & Margaret Bradstock, eds
Blackwattle Press, Sydney, 1995. 151 pp. $14.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
Blackwattle Press promotes itself as "Australia's foremost gay and
The Simpsons
Channel 10, Wednesdays
Reviewed by Dave Riley
Confronted with The Simpsons, Walt Disney would turn in his grave. If Uncle Walt's subterranean crypt had access to network television, maybe he would (finally) feel remorse for what
By Pip Hinman
Energy Resources of Australia, the operator of the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu in the Northern Territory, announced on March 9 that it intends to release radioactive water into nearby Magela Creek. ERA has been given permission
By Chris White and Kamala Emanuel
One important fact which has not had much prominence in the woodchipping debate is that growing hemp could be a viable alternative to the woodchipping industry and would create more jobs. Philip Bamback from
Once Were Warriors
By Alan Duff
University of Queensland Press, 1994. 198 pp., $15.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Peter Riedlinger
It was with some misgivings that I bought a copy of Alan Duff's novel. I'd read an interview he'd given and heard him
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