The best police force money can buy Generally the wallopers and I don't get on. During my many activities of daily living I want nothing to do with them. Their thin blue line, mustered to hold barbarism at bay day in and day out, fails to impress
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Jose Ramos Horta is the special representative of the National Council for Maubere Resistance (CNRM). Along with other members of the East Timorese Diplomatic Front, he was in London during the recent meeting between the Portuguese and Indonesian
By Jeremy Smith MELBOURNE — Upping the tempo of its campaign against the Kennett government, Save Albert Park (SAP) declared January 20 a "Day of Defiance". New regulations introduced in December further restrict both public access to the park and
EclipseWritten and directed by Jeremy PodeswaOpens February 15, George Cinemas, St Kilda, Melbourne and Verona Cinema, Paddington, SydneyReviewed by Margaret Allan Canadian film makers have produced some good films in recent years with successes like
Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and
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ACT Greens I welcome the comment piece by Jonathan Millar, an adviser to the ACT Greens, in response to my article, "Can the ACT Greens stop the Liberals' cuts?". A discussion/debate is certainly needed to decide
intro = Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the presentBy Neil MillerVintage, 1995, 657 pp., $17.95 (pb)Reviewed by Kath Gelber To write a gay and lesbian history from 1869 to the present is no small task, but Miller has put
By Norm Dixon A general strike by the Congress of South African Trade Unions was narrowly averted after talks with African National Congress government ministers. The 24-hour strike, scheduled for January 16, was suspended by COSATU's leaders after
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — A Townsville woman who was sacked as a casual hotel receptionist because she was pregnant won a landmark award in the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal on January 22. Kerri Skellern was awarded nearly $14,000 and a
PARIS — The French government confirmed on January 23 that it knew about, but did not release information concerning, radioactive contamination from its 1995 nuclear testing program in the South Pacific, according to Greenpeace. Greenpeace has