By Sarah Nicholson
SYDNEY — On the evening of April 8, Vibe Tribe's free community party, "Freequency", in Sydney Park, St Peters, was attacked. The party had been in progress for over two hours, when numerous police squad cars and paddy
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Left wins Italian regional vote
By Robynne Murphy
ROME — On April 24, the first day after the regional elections in 15 regions out of 20 in Italy, the headlines of the communist journal Liberazione read: "The French teach: the left wins
By Peter Montague
Somewhere between 2.6 and 3.8 million US men and women served in Vietnam during the years 1965 through 1971, the years when chemical herbicides were being used to denude the jungle and destroy enemy crops.
Alongside the
ZR Rifle: The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro
By Claudia Furiati
Melbourne: Ocean Press, 1994. 183 pp., $22.95.
Reviewed by Allen Myers
Conspiracy is not the cause of history, but history often creates conspiracies. In the three decades
The meeks are gathering
Blessed with the opportunity to meet with the GLW reading public over the recent Easter break, I am pleased to announce the founding of a new third force set to shake up electoral politics in this country. Mrs A. Meek of
Protests greet Goss mega-dam plans
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Protests have begun over plans announced by Premier Wayne Goss on April 19 for two huge dams in central Queensland. The dams, part of a major pre-election economic package, would
RMIT students oppose smart card
By Lisa Farrance
MELBOURNE — Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is intending to collate information on student spending habits and movements. The university is proposing to introduce magnetic
Adelaide campaign for East Timor takes off
By Jon Lamb
ADELAIDE — The campaign in support of a free East Timor is well and truly under way here, with several successful meetings and events over the past month.
On April 7, Resistance
Kind Hearted Woman
Michelle Shocked
Self-produced
Reviewed by Jen Crothers
Michelle Shocked has not had an easy road in the music business. It started with the unauthorised release of what she now calls the "Texas Campfire Thefts" (The
By Sandra Eager
SYDNEY — Bulldozers have moved into bushland at the North Ryde and Beecroft sections of the M2 tollway, but the campaign to stop the construction continues. A blockade has been in place at Terrys Creek, North Ryde, since the