By Grace Eliot
Just six companies (Sony, EMI, BMG, Time-Warner, Universal and Polygram) control over 90% of the world's commercial music business. But this figure, based on sales volume or dollar turnover, does not reflect an increasing swell of
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By William Thomas
As Energy Resources Australia (ERA) prepares to mine uranium at Jabiluka in the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park, violating Aboriginal land rights, producing waste that remains radioactive for 250,000 years and fuelling
Loose cannons
And private hands
"Monopolies are acceptable if they are in the public interest." — Suharto crony "Bob" Hasan, head of the plywood cartel.
Chile's Howard
"Chile's General Augusto Pinochet ... kicked off the first mass
Wag The DogStarring Robert De Niro, Dustin HoffmanDirected by Barry Levinson Review by Dave Riley
If you believe that allegations of sexual misconduct by a US president is a reasonable excuse for war on Iraq to distract people from the scandal,
By Alex Bainbridge
ROSEBERY, Tasmania — The second annual Rosebery Miners, Axemen, Bush and Blarney Festival was held here over the long weekend February 27-March 1. It attracted hundreds of people — from Rosebery and other towns on Tasmania's
WA Parliament debates abortion laws
By Angela Luvera and Sarah Stephen
The public galleries of both houses of the WA parliament were packed during the opening of debate on abortion law reform on March 18. Pro-choice advocate Hazel Hawke and Right
Another death in Port Phillip prison
MELBOURNE — A 34-year-old man was found dead, hanging in a cell at the Port Phillip private prison on March 19. This is the sixth death at the prison since it began operating six months ago.
This death
... and ain't i a woman?: Cover-up
The huge headlines, reams of articles and hours of TV commentary devoted to the accumulating accusations of sexual harassment against US President Bill Clinton are becoming boring.
This is unfortunate
Revenge on a coconut
By Brandon Astor Jones
"I have had a 'call' to literature, of a low order — i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit ... seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures."
Hidden in the wind
By Carmela Baranowska
"There's history remaining in the grass, or hidden in the wind, or tossing behind the waves" — from Eyewitness: Protest Stories from Indonesia by Seno Gumira Ajidarma. In March 1995, I returned to
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