Frida Kahlo: Between Passion and Pain — Tells the story of world-renowned Mexican artist and iconic figure Frida Kahlo, in her own words using extracts from her diary. SBS, Saturday, November 5, 3.05pm.
Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of
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Andrew Hall, Canberra
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) working in Centrelink are set to stop work nationally for several hours on November 15 to attend the ACTU's national SkyChannel broadcast and protest rallies against the
Liam Mitchell
Most of the people in the Howard government's TV advertising blitz for its planned new industrial relations laws are highly paid actors receiving $6000 each to appear in the ads, vastly above the standard rate. They were even given a
On October 26, Venezuelan ambassador Fermin Toro Jimenez told the UN Security Council that his country has begun processing an extradition request for Reverend Pat Robertson from the US. Robertson has publicly called for the assassination of
Sue Bull, Geelong
Trades halls and labour councils throughout regional Victoria are mobilising their members for big rallies in November against the federal Coalition government's proposed industrial relations laws.
There will be community
American Civil Liberties Union analysis has found "irrefutable evidence that US operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogations", according to ACLU attorney Amrit Singh. The ACLU studied the cases of 44 prisoners who died in US military
Andrew Martin, Brisbane
On October 19, workers at James Hardie's Meeandah concrete pipe factory arrived for their usual start time of 6.30 am to find factory's gates locked. The company had initiated a 28-hour lockout in response to workers holding
On November 5, 1855, the great US socialist Eugene Debs was born in Terra Haute, Indiana. Debs was to play a leading role in the formation of the American Railway Union (ARU), and was jailed in 1894 for his part in an ARU strike against the Chicago
WorkChoices
At an invitation-only BBQ in Canberra, Stephen Jones, assistant national secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union, eloquently outlined his battle plan to defeat the Howard government's WorkChoices legislation. Plan A:
On October 13, the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that the average global temperature for combined land and ocean surfaces for September 2005 was 0.63ø C above the 1880-2004 long-term mean. It was the
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