The Da Vinci CodeDirected by Ron HowardStarring Tom Hanks and Audrey TautouScreening nationally
REVIEW BY ELAINE GRAHAM-LEIGH
The film of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code opened the Cannes film festival on May 17 to universal critical panning. The
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In countries around the world, demonstrations were held on May 20 to demand an end to US aggression against Cuba and Venezuela. Protesters called for an end to Washington's economic embargo against Cuba and for freedom for the Cuban
Niko Leka
Peace movement supporters turned out in their hundreds to public meetings around the country last week featuring US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and founding member of Doctors of Iraq Salaam Ismael.
Ismael witnesses the carnage day
Rohan Pearce
While not many details about the "security treaty" being negotiated between Canberra and Jakarta have been made public, the Howard government has indicated that it will include an Australian commitment to Indonesia's "territorial
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter, Caracas
The capitalist system headed by the US is like a "venomous snake", Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told an audience in the east of the country on May 20. "Capitalism is the science of the devil."
"The
Peter Boyle
On March 8, 1996, Michael Johnston, 19, a Wollongong University student, was killed while cleaning a stove at a McDonald's restaurant. He was just two weeks into the job.
Johnston had been instructed to carry out the daily cleaning of
Gillian Davy, Melbourne
Despite pressure from the local Union Solidarity group and other residents, and opposition from its two Greens' members, Moreland City Council voted on May 22 to put control of the Coburg Leisure Complex into the hands of
A recently published Attorney-General's department report shows that Australians are 24 times more likely to have their phones tapped than people living in the United States.
The report on the use of the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979
Gerard Morel, Melbourne
At a lunchtime rally outside the Liberal Party's Victorian head office on May 26, US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the Democrats' Senator Natasha Stott-Despoja called for an end to the US military's imprisonment of
Jim McIlroy, Caracas
The spirit of the Bolivarian revolution shone brightly in Plaza Bolivar on May 25 when several hundred people, mainly members of the local Colombian and Peruvian communities, rallied to support progressive candidates in the
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