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
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Barefoot Student Army Produced by Open Channel in association with Lyndal and Sophie Barry Screening on True Stories, ABC TV, at 8 p.m., Sunday, May 10 Reviewed by Anthony Thirlwall and Bronwen Beechey In March 1988, Burmese students took to
By Norm Dixon South Africa is facing a health crisis of massive proportions if the spread of AIDS is not bought under control. Estimates from three recent studies agree that a post-apartheid South Africa may find itself losing between 150,000
The Master and Margarita By Michail Bulgakov Translated by Michael Glenny Collins. $16.95 Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet poet who died in prison in 1938, divided literature into that permitted and that written without
Timor book launched By Maurice Sibelle BRISBANE — "The Western world has a moral and political obligation to tell the truth," East Timor community representative Lucia Corte-real told a gathering here to launch a new book, East Timor: A
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
Comment by Scott MacWilliam There are currently two matters which draw media attention to politics in Papua New Guinea. The first is the revolt on Bougainville and the second the impending national election. Central to both is the political
Resistance Is Defence Mzwakhe Mbuli Virgin Earthworks through Larrikin Records Available on CD and cassette Reviewed by Norm Dixon Through the mid-'80s South African police were constantly embarrassed and infuriated by the phantom-like
By Poul Funder Larsen CHELYABINSK — After picketing the city administration building for 10 days, health workers in this city in the Urals region of Russia went on strike on April 20. There were predictions that their stoppage, called in
Ethnic vote I am a researcher in Arabic and teach Arab history at Deakin University's Toorak campus. Your sympathetic attitudes on Afro-Asian causes are building up an increasing readership for GL among Arab Australians, who combine political
The Away Game em = By David McCartney Thank God the match is over. Long drawn out batting ... Like England playing for a draw, What a bore. All aboard! Back on the bus, home again, yes. Whoever left behind will have to clean up all the
By Paul Adams MELBOURNE — There are many problems with relocating Coode Island's hazardous chemicals facilities to the west side of relatively remote Point Wilson, as recommended by the official investigators. The government is yet to
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