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
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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
By Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — Victoria's first "illegal" picket since the promulgation of the Employee Relations Act on March 1 proved interesting for two reasons. Firstly, the workers won the dispute. Secondly, the political intrigue behind
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
By Roger Raven
Job creation has been given nothing like the attention that it deserves. No green/democratic/socialist political force will seriously threaten the conservative parties until we can offer credible economic policies to the
PERTH — Activists from various humanitarian and political organisations paid their respects to popular Communist leader Chris Hani, and showed their support for the democratic movement in South Africa, at a memorial meeting on April 17 organised
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government will soon present legislation to parliament to give police greater powers. Police will be able to take fingerprints regardless of whether the person objects.
Under current law, police
John Pilger's Cambodian film
Return to Year Zero, award-winning journalist John Pilger's new documentary on Cambodia, has been screened in Britain. But it will apparently not be seen in Australia in the immediate future. According to a report
From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences
Edited by Connie Barlow
The MIT Press, 273 pp.
Reviewed by Dave Riley
There seems to be a frustrating paucity of informed debate within the environment movement. A
MADELEINE BLACKWELL, the director of Matebian Nia Lian (Voices of Souls), a play by the East Timorese Cultural Group currently being performed in Melbourne's Theatreworks, believes that the story of East Timor reveals ugly truths about the nature
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