By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — For a brief but dramatic period in mid-April, Russia was without a government. On April 13 first deputy premier Yegor Gaidar and his ministers marched indignantly from the chamber of the Congress of People's
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The story not told on ANZAC Day By John Tognolini Another ANZAC Day is past, but it's worth considering these words of one veteran who never marched on April 25: "I never went one step. My son has never forgotten or forgiven me for not taking
By Tracy Sorensen It should not be surprising that a central motif in the television images of the burning of Los Angeles is the car: run down, stopped, its driver hauled out and bashed or even shot, in a furious re-enactment of the original
Brisbane free speech campaign By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Supporters of free speech held a speak-out in the Queen Street Mall on May 1 to oppose city council plans to restrict activities in the area. ALP Lord Mayor Jim Soorley, under
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Following the decision of the Western Australian government to restrict the distribution of People and Picture magazines to outlets registered for the sale of "adult publications", the Victorian government announced
By Irina Glushchenko MOSCOW — Repeatedly in the past few months, the Russian media have carried reports detailing the sombre news: women in this country are no longer willing to bear children. The reports have noted social causes —
By Steve Painter Canadian environmentalists are fighting plans by the New Brunswick provincial government to spray the region's forests with insecticide for the 40th year running. Opponents of the plan say this is probably the longest sustained
By Peter Gellert MEXICO CITY — Mexico city's air pollution crisis continues to occupy the attention of the 20 million inhabitants of the worlds's largest city. In recent weeks, record-breaking ozone levels brought the issue to a head.
Australia shirks nuclear insurance issue As the danger of nuclear accidents increase in the wake of the break-up of the former Soviet bloc, unsafe practices in many Third World countries and the ageing of reactors in all nuclear power states,
Not an American cowboy Trooper Bohan: The Shooting of Ben Hall, With Other Stories and Ballads By Colin Newsome Reviewed by Denis Kevans Good to meet an old bushman who's not an American cowboy. Colin Newsome was a shearers' delegate and
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