Indonesia defeated over East Timor at UN
The Indonesian government suffered a major defeat at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 11, as 22 member states voted in favour of a resolution on East Timor.
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Of Mice and Men
Screenplay by Horton Foote
Based on the novel John Steinbeck
Directed by Gary Sinese
With Gary Sinese, John Malkovich, Sherilyn Fenn, Ray Walston, Joe Morton
At Greater Union Pitt St, Sydney
Reviewed by Max Lane
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Women in prison
Convicted
SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series
Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Kath Tucker
"When you imprison a woman, you imprison her children." Eighty per cent of women in
Youth report 'misses the mark'
By Sean Malloy
A recent report titled A Living Wage by the Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition and State and Territory Youth Affairs Councils and Networks (STYACN) has angered young people in its
Call for independent monitor on custody
The National Committee to Defend Black Rights has called for two strategies dealing with black deaths in custody to be immediately implemented by the government.
NCDBR wants full and immediate
Students arrested as Suharto accepts Try
Forty students demonstrated outside the Indonesian parliament on March 10 to protest against the nomination and election of ex-general Suharto as president.
The demonstrators, carrying placards
By Nick Johnson
PHNOM PENH — The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) recently made public the presence in Cambodia of three former Vietnamese soldiers. One is an ethnic Khmer from southern Vietnam now in the Cambodian
Two Interpretations From Central Park
By Graeme Merry
Visions and Voices Publications
Reviewed by Peter Salisbury
It will probably not be very long before the death of poetry is announced, in the same way as the death of the novel was
Hoffa
Written by David Mamet
Directed by Danny DeVito
With Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante
Showing in Hoyts city and suburban cinemas
Reviewed by Max Lane
Hoffa is a disappointing film — annoyingly so, given the
Following bilateral discussions between the African National Congress and the National Party government in February, a multiparty preparatory conference was held on the weekend of March 6-7. The 26 political organisations present agreed to open
By Sean Malloy
The release of February labour force figures on March 11 showed unemployment still rising. The Australian Bureau of Statistics put the seasonally adjusted figure at 11.1%. This was a rise of .1% on the January figure, which the
By Dave Riley
Food irradiation is back on the menu. Australia's three-year moratorium on it expired on December 12. The National Food Authority will soon develop "standards on the process of treating food with ionising radiation to increase
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