Inside Out By Sowaddayawant Women's Theatre Company and Patricia Cornelius Directed by Lisa Dombroski At the Anthill Theatre, South Melbourne, until October 27. Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey Sowaddayawant Women's Theatre Company began drama
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Over the last few months a new organisation has appeared in the Jakarta social movements. Yayasan Perempuan Mardika (YPM — Foundation for the Liberation of Women) has been instrumental in organising women workers in the Jakarta area. YPM holds
By Norm Dixon Cuba is facing its most serious threat since the revolution. The effects of the United States' 30-year economic embargo are being compounded by the disruption of Cuba's vital trade with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Congress
Anti-Nile demo Re: Action Updates (GLW no. 31) Well, even the Sydney Morning Herald said there were 500 anti-Nile demonstrators. Channel 9 said the police were "brutal". Neither of these reports were accurate. There were approximately 600
By Peter McGregor The Vietnam News Agency (VNA), based in Hanoi, has recently expanded its English-language publications. Previously it had been producing only the 16-page weekly bulletin, Vietnam Weekly. In mid-June, VNA began its
MELBOURNE — About 170 journalists from the Age newspaper picketed the headquarters of the ANZ Bank (receivers of the troubled Fairfax newspaper empire) to protest against increased concentration of media ownership and the threat this poses to
By Tom Flanagan HOBART — In the wake of the rejection of gay law reform by the upper house of state parliament in July, the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group (TGLRG) has announced that it will takes its case directly to the United Nations
Solidarity activists are mobilising for a major international campaign called "East Timor: It's Time to Talk". The proposal is for round table talks between the East Timorese resistance and Indonesia under United Nations auspices. The offer has been
Fallout from the Yugoslav civil war and the failed Soviet coup is currently dominating Hungarian politics, benefiting the ruling rightist Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF), reports LASZLO ANDOR from Budapest. Eighteen months after national
By Peter Poynton TOWNSVILLE — Since 1967, when the road to legal equality for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders was cleared by 90.2% approval in a federal referendum, things have been far from smooth. Consider the 14 Queensland
500 years committee launched By Martin Mulligan MELBOURNE — Exactly 499 years after Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas, a Melbourne Working Committee on 500 Years of Indigenous and Popular Resistance held a public launch to
Brewery ruling threatens Aboriginal heritage By Leon Harrison PERTH — In a setback to Aboriginal plans to demolish the old Swan Brewery, the full bench of the Supreme Court has upheld an appeal by the WA Development Corporation and the state
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