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
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
Foreign minister
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
By Tom Flanagan
MELBOURNE — More than 200 people attended the 1995 Queer Collaborations conference, held at Melbourne University July 10-14. The conference brought together lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenderist students (and many
TERESITA CARPIO works in the Midas garment factory in the Philippines where, in 1986, she was a founder of the first workplace trade union. Since then she has held the position of union secretary. She is also an executive committee member of the
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