South Korea celebrates May Day
By Michael Chong
South Korean workers and students celebrated May Day this year for the first time in 35 years. Until now, any ceremonies relating to May Day were legally banned.
In the Seoul region, a
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Sydney's newest community radio station — 2CCR 90.5 FM — has begun broadcasting. If you want to get involved or find out program details, write to 2CCR FM, PO Box 977, Baulkham Hills NSW 2153.
Green and Practical — Broadcasting from the
France to renew N-tests?
There are indications French nuclear testing may resume in the South Pacific. The head of France's Atomic Energy Commission is urging the government to end its moratorium on nuclear weapons testing, saying the arsenal's
By Bronwen Beechey and Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — The day after a large May 5 march and rally against the Kennett government's budget cuts and attacks on superannuation benefits of public sector workers, a $2 million "audit" of the state's
Declaration of the Party of Labour
The brutal assault on the May Day demonstration showed that the Yeltsin regime is interpreting the results of the referendum in its own distinctive fashion: as a mandate to use clubs and water-cannons
Medea
Composed by Gordon Kerry
Libretto by Justin MacDonnell (adapted from Seneca)
Arias
Written and composed by Caroline Wilkins
Together at the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne, until May 16
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
The
By Sean Moysey
Oil is toxic to humans, animals and plants. Using it does incredible damage to the environment. To gain control of it, horrific wars have been fought, such as the 1991 Gulf War.
Oil is a major contributor to the
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — Victoria's already beleaguered public transport system is in for a further battering. More cuts to rail services are to take effect in the next two months, despite warnings from environmental and public
No progress in talks on Timor
By Max Lane
The Indonesian and Portuguese foreign ministers and the UN secretary-general met in Rome on April 27 to discuss East Timor.
The first round of these talks, held in New York in December,
Legal sexism
Women suffer sexual harassment and sex discrimination daily, to varying degrees. Many of us make it a principle to object, at least to the perpetrator, in every single instance. The sheer volume of inappropriate sexual innuendos
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