By Karen Fredericks
The Oscar-winning US documentary The Panama Deception will screen for the first time in Australia when it begins its run at the Valhalla cinema in Sydney on April 30. Green Left Weekly spoke to the film's producer and
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Silent protest against Stockdale
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A group of 60 people with disabilities and supporters of public transport gathered outside the Equal Opportunities Commission on April 23 to protest against the arrival of
By Catherine Brown
Anti-racist activists warned that the new right government of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur would step up attacks on immigrants. Within two weeks of its appointment, four young immigrants were shot by French police. Three
By Peter Boyle
The Australian Democrat-initiated independent parliamentary inquiry into tariffs and industry development has called for a 12-month pause in tariff reduction and an urgent reappraisal of industry policy.
The final report
Leader assassinated
This article had already been written when it was learned that DUNF leader Lalith Athulathmudali had been assassinated on April 23. No further information was available at press time.
By S. Piyasena
A critical election is taking place in Sri Lanka on May 17. While the vote is for seven of eight provincial councils, whose five-year terms end in June-July, the election is being viewed as a referendum on the country's
Exhaust fumes cleaner than London air?
LONDON — The following advertisement was displayed in the April 17 Guardian newspaper:
"This Saab refreshes the air other cars leave behind.
"Incredible but true.
"Proved by government
No conclusions
"No conclusions should be drawn from the fact that a ticket cannot be drawn from one machine while it's still in the testing phase." — Sydney CityRail spokesperson after a new automatic ticketing machine being demonstrated
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Russian President Boris Yeltsin has been readying another "presidential coup", to be launched immediately after the April 25 referendum. Unlike his preparations in March for the imposition of "special rule", there
Another mine to close?
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — Coal mining company Denehurst, owner of one of the oldest pits in NSW, has given a new meaning to the phrase "enterprise bargain". It has told 250 employees at the Metropolitan
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