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
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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
ANC condemn UNITA
By Frank Noakes
JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress national executive has launched a national campaign of solidarity and support for Angola, and is calling on the international community to take all
Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided
By Shayne McCallum
HOBART — Outrage has erupted among Tasmanian teachers over revelations by a Tasmanian building society senior executive that money has been deducted from teachers' personal
By Norm Dixon
The United States government is "a major and flagrant human rights violator" which is "perpetrating terror on its own citizens" through its frequent use of the death penalty, Rick Halperin, chairperson of Amnesty International
Hollywood backlash
Scent of a Woman
Directed by Martin Brest
Written by Bo Goldman
With Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell
Greater Union
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
I was prejudiced about this film before I even saw it because of
When Paul Keating thanked the "true believers" in Labor for re-electing his government on March 13, he was met with a wild ovation from the loyal crowd at the Bankstown Leagues Club. But PETER BOYLE asks: what is the worth of his promise to
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