By Catherine Brown
DUNDALK — Under the banner "Unity and Independence — For a Peaceful Future", Sinn Fein's 1993 Ard Fheis (annual conference) affirmed the centrality of the party's new thinking about its strategy for peace in Ireland.
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The government in Panama has banned the showing of a critically acclaimed documentary on the 1989 US invasion of the country, which put the present government in office.
The film, The Panama Deception, has been nominated for an Oscar as well
A habit of breaking new ground
The Times Of Zenia Gold
By Chris Jones
Black Wattle Press
Reviewed by Michael Arnold
Being at the forefront of new queerground is almost old hat for poet Chris Jones. Chris was involved in the
Union deal saves train lines but may cost jobs
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A deal struck between transport minister Alan Brown and rail unions has saved a number of rail services throughout Victoria, but about 5500 jobs will be shed in
Rally against police violence
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Wearing a variety of masks, a small group of people demonstrated outside the South Melbourne police station on March 11 to protest against bashings by police of people taken into
Stay home, Soldier
The Crying Game
Directed by Neil Jordan
Reviewed by Reihana Mohideen
In the first few minutes, the contradictions dealt with in the film come at you thick and fast. A black English soldier (Forest Whitaker) on duty
By Peter Boyle
Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce presented Difficult Women, readings and songs celebrating "women who have dared to stand up and speak", to completely sold out seasons at Melbourne's La Mamma and Budinski's theatres last year. Then,
Poetry for the jobless
By Stephen Bavaro
SYDNEY — The Unemployed People's Embassy, based in the inner southern suburbs of Marrickville and St. Peters, has established the Poetry Party.
A spokesperson for the UPE said that the idea
Council attacks free speech rally
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Brisbane City Council officers, with help from the Queensland Police, confiscated an information stall from free speech protesters in the Queen Street Mall on March 19.
In Melbourne this week
By Bronwen Beechey
St Kilda Film Festival
Every year the St Kilda Film Festival presents an extraordinarily diverse program of new Australian short films and videos, made by students at film and TV schools and
Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison
By Sylvia Porter
BRISBANE — Twenty-five people picketed the Brisbane Women's Prison on March 20, protesting against the imprisonment of women for offences related to domestic violence.
The action
Qld police slammed on Operation Trident
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The controversial Operation Trident car-stealing scam was poorly conceived, incompetently executed and tainted from beginning to end, according to the Carter report
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