Dismantling the Bomb
The Cutting Edge
SBS, Tuesday, July 25, 8.30pm (8 in SA)
Previewed by Lisa Macdonald
"From day one, when we first produced plutonium in this country, we never had an option for its disposal. The notion always was that
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In October occurs the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Australia. Over coming months, Green Left Weekly plans to mark this occasion with a series of historical features and interviews on the CPA and the left from 1920 to the
Mapplethorpe exhibition in Perth
Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective
WA Art Gallery until August 6
Reviewed by Leon Harrison
Robert Mapplethorpe, a famous and controversial gay US photographer, died in 1989 leaving a legacy in his mainly
By Afrodity Giannakis
SYDNEY — Teachers at the Adult Migrant English Service (AMES) in Auburn and Parramatta are campaigning to stop a threatened closure of English for migrants classes at Auburn.
AMES is administered by the state
By Lisa Macdonald
The taking to the streets of tens of thousands of Australians on July 14 to protest the French government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific was the first clear signal to the federal ALP government that the
By Anthony Brown
The resumption of French nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific has once again drawn public attention to the issue of Australian uranium exports to France.
Although the federal government announced that it had placed
Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport
By Colin Tatz
UNSW Press, 1995. 408 pp., $39.95 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
If sport is a "litmus test" for racism in Australia, as Colin Tatz argues in his new book, the results are pretty damning.
Australian gunships in action again on Bougainville
By Norm Dixon
At least one of the four Iroquois combat helicopters supplied to the Papua New Guinea government by Australia in 1989 is in action over Bougainville again, says the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — The typical Russian murder: the door of a Jeep Grand Cherokee swings open, cartridge-cases from an assault rifle spray onto the pavement, and a strongly built, crew-cut young man in a strawberry-coloured jacket
Sydney
Up to 40,000 people rallied, marched and picketed here on Bastille Day, July 14, to condemn the proposed French nuclear testing in the Pacific, write Amy Phillips and Chris Spindler.
A day-long picket was held at the French
Mina Tannenbaum
Directed by Martine Dugowson
Starring Romane Bohringer and Elsa Zylberstein
Opens in late July at the Pitt Centre, Sydney
Reviewed by Pip Hinman
This story of the friendship between two girls, Mina and Ethel, who both
South Africa grapples with apartheid's environmental legacy
By Eddie Koch
JOHANNESBURG — Rainbows have become emblematic of the Republic of South Africa's shift from apartheid to non-racial democracy. Since Nelson Mandela used references
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