Up close and pass the deodorant
Viewing Blue PolesBy Christos TsiolkasBelvoir Street Downstairs, SydneyUntil July 16 Review by Brendan Doyle
The 80-seat downstairs theatre at Belvoir Street, one of the few intimate theatre spaces left in Sydney,
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BY KATE CARR
SYDNEY — The march for reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on May 28, and the series of protests against the racism of the federal government which came before and after it, introduced many people to the newly formed
INDONESIA: Situation explosive as economic and political crisis deepens
The 10 years to 1998 was a decade of escalating mass protest in Indonesia, climaxing in the 1998 mobilisations of hundreds of thousands of people across the archipelago which
BY MICHAEL STRUTT
SYDNEY — As this city shivers through the long nights of its Olympics year, New South Wales parliamentarians have been working overtime to pass into law sweeping new police powers to collect and examine our DNA, laws which will
Community workers demand 'quality services, quality pay'
BY NICK EVERETT & TRISH CORCORAN
SYDNEY — In the largest mobilisation of community and welfare workers in years, 1000 workers went on strike and marched through Sydney's central
VIENNA — Austria's government — a coalition of the conservative People's Party (VP) and the extreme right-wing, racist Freedom Party (FP) — is showing its true colours. The FP managed to overtake the VP at last October's federal election by a
Bondi tenants fight back
BY DANIEL JARDINE
SYDNEY — Rent increases of 20-30% in the Bondi area in the last two years prompted 100 local residents to attend the June 21 launch of a new video from the Eastern Area Tenants Service (EATS), Against
ASIO stalks Burmese activists
BY SEAN HEALY
SYDNEY — The Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has been following Burmese refugees in Australia and phoning them every day to check up on their activities, Maung Maung Than,
Cubans discuss environmental sustainability
What can Australian environmentalists learn from Cuba, a country that still flirts with nuclear power, is besieged by many environmental problems typical of the Third World, and lags behind countries like
Around half a million jubilant Cubans marched in the eastern city of Holguin
on June 24 to celebrate a US federal appeals court in Atlanta statement
the day before that it would not reconsider its decision not to grant a
political asylum
Kosovars offer solidarity to indigenous struggle
BY LESLIE WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — A smoke ceremony was held by Aboriginal Tent Embassy activists here on June 23 to welcome members of the Kosova Freedom Network (KFN). The Kosova Freedom Embassy, a
Whatever the final results of the June 24-25 general election in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party's commanding political position has been deeply damaged. Under pressure from
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