By Trish Corcoran
SYDNEY — On May 12, members of the United Residents Action Group blockaded bulldozers that were about to begin work on a new development in the Berowra Valley. Landcom — the NSW government developer — had put in an
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Good karma
Last Stop Heavenly HeightsKarma CountyTWA Records Reviewed by Iain Clacher
Last Stop Heavenly Heights is a striking debut CD for Sydney band Karma County, a strange bar-band which seems to inhabit its very own original space in
Southern Journey, Vol. 5: Bad Man BalladsVarious artists, recorded by Alan LomaxRounder Records through Festival Review by Norm Dixon
Bad Man Ballads: Songs of Outlaws and Desperadoes is just one of a monumental series of recordings of folk
ANU activists commit to NUS referendum
By Martin Iltis
CANBERRA — Australian National University student activists are busy collecting the 800 signatures necessary to force a referendum on affiliation to the National Union of Students
By Peter Montague
In the early 1990s, British researchers at Brunel University in Uxbridge noticed that male fish living downstream from a sewage treatment plant near London had testes laden with eggs. The male fish had become hermaphrodites
Outback thriller
Kiss or KillDirected by Bill BennettWith Frances O'Connor, Matt Day, Chris Haywood, Barry OttoSydney Film Festival Review by Brendan Doyle
Slick as an inner-city haircut, this thriller road movie has a plot with as many
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "Young people in Australia will overwhelmingly reject Pauline Hanson's attempt to set up a One Nation youth wing", according to Zanny Begg, Brisbane organiser of the socialist youth organisation Resistance. "Hanson's
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Workers in one of Russia's main industrial regions are organising themselves for a day of coordinated protest action, in what could be a landmark development for the rise of a broad, militant labour opposition to the
WA unionists prepare for a fight
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Richard Court's Coalition government and its mates in the Building and Construction Industry Taskforce (whose main "task" consists of attacking construction unions) are trying to
By Tom Flanagan
DARWIN — The Aboriginal traditional owners of the site of the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine have taken their struggle to stop the mine to the Federal Court. The validity of the Jabiluka mineral lease is being challenged by