University life in the '90s
UniA four-part documentary by Simon TargetFirst episode screens on The Big Picture, ABC, November 6 Review by Marina Carman
In this new documentary about student life in the 1990s, Simon Target and crew follow three
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Terra Australis Proprietary Limited
The Reserve Bank in conjunction with the federal Treasury is making arrangements for turning the whole country into a limited liability company. Every Australian citizen will be offered shares in the float.
ARCO
[This poem was written by one of the sacked miners from the Gordonstone coal mine in Queensland. It was read to an October 17 rally of miners and their families in Emerald.]
So you're sacking all the workers, that's such a bitter pill.You're
Huge cutbacks in funding for documentaries under the Howard government have left the independent film industry on its knees, according to film maker David Bradbury. Bradbury claims that last year's federal government budget cuts, which he described
By Norm Dixon
Peter Mokaba — a former president of the African National Congress Youth League, a member of the ANC national executive and presently deputy tourism minister in the South African government — has issued a thinly veiled call for
Strength in numbers
The spectacle of hundreds of thousands of African-American women massed in the centre of Philadelphia on October 25 was truly inspiring.
Organised by community activists in Philadelphia, and a year in the planning, the
A short story by Craig Cormick
Oh shit! It can't be. Robert-Bloody-Menzies! He looks just like Robert-Bloody-Menzies. Right down to the eyebrows and turned up collar. I stare real hard, but try not to look like I'm staring. You know what it's like
Burke's BackyardChannel 9Fridays, 7.30pm Reviewed by Al McCall
Since Australia missed out on feudalism, any new chum arriving in the antipodes was surely keen on a piece of land to call their own. Aside from the fact that the previous owners
'Marcos is gay'
Some time ago, in an attempt to discredit one of the Zapatista leaders in southern Mexico, Sub-comandante Marcos, government officials there tried to put forth the idea that Marcos was gay. In a region where machismo still runs
By Boris Kagarlitsky
On the topic of the Russian Revolution, it might appear that everything worth saying has already been said. Throughout the Soviet decades, leftists repeatedly cited Trotsky and his biographer Isaac Deutscher on the bureaucratic