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"It was a time when I thought, I've done everything, the $10 million deal, the $100 million deal and the billion-dollar deal, and you ask, where do you go from there?" — Corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley, describing a
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW, March 30 — Russians will have the chance on April 25 to vote in a referendum on President Boris Yeltsin's "shock therapy" economic policies. In other questions in the parliament-sponsored poll, voters will be asked
The Soundtrack of Malcolm X
Various artists
Qwest/Reprise through Warner Music
Available on cassette and CD
RCA: The 1st Note in Black Music
Various artists
BMG Music
Available on CD
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
"What we wanted to
Occupied school to resist closure
By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — The parents, students and community activists who are occupying and operating Richmond Secondary College (one of 52 schools official closed by the Kennett government last
By Kristian Whittaker
The Eighth National People's Congress (NPC) opened on March 15 in Beijing. The NPC is China's constitutional equivalent to a "parliament".
The agenda includes the approval of a new government line-up and the passing
People and Place
Australian Forum for Population Studies, Monash University
Subscriptions $25 (Australia), $30 (overseas)
Reviewed by Jeremy Smith
A new journal publishes research on migration patterns, labour markets, the urban sprawl
The recent visit to Australia by Amnesty International US chairperson Rick Halperin has focused attention on the death penalty in the United States. The case of radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania convicted for the
Goss to end royal trappings in Qld
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Queensland Premier Wayne Goss has entered the republican debate with plans to remove the oath of allegiance to the queen in state jurisdictions, and to remove references to the
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — A study of the effects of abortion on women in Australia indicates that the real trauma associated with the experience is suffered in trying to obtain information and access to abortion services, rather than as
Keeping the pressure on
By Barbara Struthers
ADELAIDE — The full court seems in no hurry to rule on the conduct of Justice Derek Bollen in the now notorious rape in marriage trial. The hearing was on March 15, and there has still not
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