By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — Ask any Muscovite what there are most of in the city, and he or she will probably answer, "Commercial street kiosks". These are ugly structures, often with steel bars on the windows, which trade in a
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Nick Tucker
Government by council?
Queensland currently faces one of its most serious challenges to civil liberty in over three years. A local council is trying to make laws preventing free speech and peaceful assembly.
Brisbane
Unforgiven
Written by David Webb Peoples
Directed by Clint Eastwood
With Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris
Showing at Village, Greater Union and Hoyts Cinemas
Reviewed by Max Lane
Unforgiven is a very
Bill Hathaway
MELBOURNE — Prominent AIDS activist Bill Hathaway died on February 6, aged 27. He had been living with HIV since 1989.
Hathaway worked as HIV education officer with the Victorian AIDS Council and was an activist in
By Chris Benner
A strike by Johannesburg taxi drivers, which crippled the city for three days in the second week of February, has been settled with an agreement of intent.
Signatories include the major taxi union, political parties,
Death penalty in the Philippines
By Emlyn Jones
After six years of bitter debate and opposition, the death penalty has been reintroduced in the Philippines. The House of Representatives Committee on Justice, headed by Pablo Garcia,
By Norm Dixon
Bougainville's struggle for independence will continue despite the occupation of parts of the embattled island's capital, Arawa, by Papua New Guinea Defence Force troops last week, the Bougainville Revolutionary Army has
By Kevin Healy
The week of the great debate, full of excitement and political relevance and ... stretch ... yawn ... snore. Actually, I was sitting there only half asleep, and a friend said, "Look at that worm on the telly", and I said,
By Karen Fredericks and Anne Casey
In his "maiden" speech in federal parliament, in 1970, Paul Keating expressed grave concern at the number of women entering the work force. They should be at home, making babies, he said, because an
Brisbane mall protests continue
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Brisbane City Council and police adopted a low-key approach at a rally in Brisbane's Queen St Mall on February 19. The rally was the third such action to protest against the
'Mitterrand approved Greenpeace bombing'
It has been alleged that French President Francois Mitterrand approved the bombing of the environmental organisation Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in 1985.
Two French agents
West backs down on deportations
By Sean Malloy
The United Nations, the European Community and the United States have tacitly supported Israel's deportation of Palestinians to Lebanon by accepting a "compromise" proposal to return 100 of
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