Media intrusion: crossing the dividing line
Comment by Peter Reid
Is Cheryl Kernot becoming the media rat pack's No. 1 quarry? In just three months since she quit the Democrats for Labor, she's had to endure more critical sniping and intrusive
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"I guess there are very few new ideas in journalism." — Sydney Sun-Herald editor Alan Revell after his paper and the Sunday Telegraph both front-paged an "exclusive" beat-up claiming there is widespread issuing of fraudulent medical
Tasmanian Waffle
Waffle Tall StoriesSunday, February 8, 7.30pmCinema After Dark, HobartWednesday, February 11, 8.30pmCafe Who$8.50/$6 concession (slightly more at the door) Review by Kathy Pinkus
HOBART — Waffle Tall Stories are back. There are
Return of a reggae pioneer
Wash Over GoldWinston Grennan and Ska Rocks BandSwegway RecordsSend US$20 to 2400 Poplar Drive, Baltimore, MD 21207, USA Review by Norm Dixon
Winston Grennan is not a household name among reggae enthusiasts, but he
Black folks do
"Racism was a form of madness, a pathological hatred and cruelty that took its most despicable form in outright murder. Lynching — which took the lives of hundreds (though not, as has often been alleged, thousands) of blacks
Telstra unfair dismissal case adjourned
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — The Industrial Relations Commission hearing of the unfair dismissal case of Mervyn Vogt has been adjourned to April 14. Vogt, a Community and Public Sector Union delegate at
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Department spokesperson: Some person who has the time should set about making a collection of the many pronouncements made about our near neighbour to the north by professional scribes of one kind or another. I do not suppose that
Graphic evidence of East Timor's plight
Review by Jon Land
Human Rights Violations in East Timor, a magazine-style booklet produced by the East Timor International Support Centre, contains photographic evidence of torture and murder by the
TB spreads in Russia as government chops health funds
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — At about 2.5% of GDP, health spending in Russia last year compared poorly with western European levels of 7-8%. That was before the cost-cutters lopped another
Telling it like it is: Land rights and the pastoral industry
Bludgers in Grass Castles: Native title and the unpaid debts of the pastoral industryBy Martin TaylorResistance Books, 1998$3.95 from Resistance Bookshops (addresses page 2) or send
Hands off Iraq!
The government of the United States is openly planning still another military attack on the people of Iraq. Once again, the most powerful military machine in history is to be turned against helpless civilians, whose murder will be
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