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By Eva Cheng Rampant corruption of Communist Party officials in China has been well known since 1949. But Deng Xiaoping's capitalist "reforms" since 1979 have given them new means of enrichment. Lavish banquets, bigger villas, consumer
By Kyla Slaven We all know about the railing, nasty and simplistic messages put forward by commercial radio, television and print media in Australia. News and current affairs are presented as objective, "natural" reporting of the "most important
By Peter Montague A new global environmental problem has emerged from an unexpected source: nitrogen. Nitrogen makes up 78% of Earth's atmosphere. In its atmospheric form, nitrogen is an unreactive gas, unavailable to most living things. Now a
By Michael Karadjis — NICOSIA, September 5 — The following declaration was signed by 58 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political, cultural, trade union, peace and women's organisations on the occasion of the International Day for
Blood on the FieldsWynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Centre Jazz OrchestraColumbia/SonyThree CDs, $49.95 Review by Norm Dixon The long-awaited release on CD of Wynton Marsalis' epic jazz odyssey about slavery was preceded by the controversy that
By Ian Jamieson ROSEBERY — Under the whip of a declining health budget, rural and regional hospitals in Tasmania are facing closure or a severe curtailing of services. The latest casualty is a 70-year-old hospital in St Marys on the east
A Midsummer Night's DreamBy William ShakespeareDirected by Noël C. ToveySydney Theatre Company in association with the Olympic Arts FestivalsWharf Theatre until October 4 Review by Allen Myers This excellent production is part of the
Rage Against Racism By Cassandra Pomroy SYDNEY — Following the huge success of the Rock Against Racism at the Harbourside Brasserie here, Resistance is now organising a Rage Against Racism. Several young bands will be performing between
NSW government fiddles as rivers die By Frances Kelly NSW's inland rivers are in crisis. Ask anyone in country NSW to describe their local river, and at best they will say in it was in a better state years ago. At worst they will
Left on-line Debate erupts on Young Liberal site — Recent articles in Green Left Weekly on the far right in the Liberal Party have provoked a lively debate on the web site of the Young Liberal Movement of WA. The YLMWA was identified by GLW
Steps toward ending radioactive dumping in oceans By Barry Healy On the final day of the meeting of the OSPAR Convention on September 5 in Brussels, the British and French governments for the first time agreed to moves to end marine nuclear
Get a job up ya! What a week we've had here at LORES. The Life of Riley Employment Service has been working with Channel Nine and other folk who so freely donated their time on the Jobs For Australia program. True blue, dinky-di,