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
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South Africa fuels Rwanda civil war
Copies of two invoices received by the Oslo-based World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa reveal that arms and ammunition worth around US$6 million were sold to the
By Andrew Watson
PERTH — West Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court has signalled a Jeff Kennett style of approach to industrial relations, aiming to introduce new anti-union legislation when parliament sits in May.
The proposed
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 Igal Avidan
On February 28 exactly 50 years ago, a few hundred women began a historic demonstration in Nazi Germany — perhaps the only public protest against the Holocaust ever to be staged under Hitler.
Yet the demonstration is
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
Power and Protest: Movements for Social Change in Australian Society
By Verity Burgmann
Allen and Unwin. 302 pp. $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Vannessa Hearman
Verity Burgmann, co-editor of the four volume A People's History of Australia
Blood Moon
By Tes Lyssiotis
Directed by Robert Draffin
Cast: Nina Landis, Maggie Millar, Diedre Rubinstein, Mary Sitarenos
Theatreworks, Melbourne, until March 28
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Blood Moon is Tes Lyssiotis' 13th play
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,
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "What has occurred has been an attempt to concentrate power fully in the hands of the Soviets, to return the Communist nomenklatura to the levers of government, and to seize back the democratic conquests of August
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