Issue 163

Bigots invited into Tasmanian high schools By Katrina Dean HOBART — Tas-Alert, an anti-gay group campaigning against gay law reform in this state, has been allowed space to display its message on secondary school

Aborigines occupy Qld national park By Bill Mason BRISBANE — More than 30 Aborigines are occupying the Lawn Hill National Park, about 240 km north-west of Mount Isa, in support of their demand for involvement in the management

By Wendy Robertson Hundreds of people rallied in capital cities on October 14-15 to protest against Australian government and business complicity in the 19-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Activists highlighted the fact

Residents rally to save fig trees By Susan Price BRISBANE ... One hundred residents and supporters tied yellow ribbons around two historic Moreton Bay fig trees in a protest called by the Herston, Kelvin Grove Residents Group

By Jen Crothers Theatre performances in Canberra and Hobart are well worth seeing if you get the chance. In Canberra, at the National Festival of Australian Theatre, October 18-22, the Burnie, Tasmania, youth theatre group Rip

Circus protest By Stephen Bull ADELAIDE — About 100 animal rights supporters braved the rain and wind at Bonython Park on October 1 to protest against the use of animals in circuses. Animal Liberation used the occasion of the

TIM MARSHALL is a university student in San Francisco and a member of the US socialist organisation Solidarity. In Sydney in July to attend the Resistance conference, he was interviewed for Green Left Weekly by REIHANA MOHIDEEN. What is it

By Liang Guosheng In his excellent summary article, "Chinese workers challenge 'market Stalinism'" (GLW, August 10) Phil Clarke writes that the "general economic model promoted by Deng Xiaoping's regime is 'market Stalinism' — market

By Jennifer Thompson Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears to have lost a desperate gamble. Despite the sickening hypocrisy which portrays Iraqi troops in Iraq as a "threat" and US troops half way around the world as "peacekeepers", the

Loyalist cease-fire Six and a half weeks after the Irish Republican Army laid down its arms and declared a cease-fire the Unionists of Northern Ireland have followed suit. On October 13, the Combined Loyalist Military Command,

How Are We To Live? By Peter Singer Text Publishing. $24.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley It's been one helluva century! No sooner are we free of the placenta than we are sentenced to our role in history. But what does it all

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover By Anthony Summers Corgi Paperbacks. 621 pp. $16.95 Reviewed by Sean Lennon J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. Publicly, he was feted

The Exposurist By P.P. Craney Junction Theatre, cnr George St & South Rds, Thebarton Until November 5 $15/$10, group bookings available. Phone (08) 43 6200. Reviewed by Chris Spindler Set in the Philippines, The

Poem: Fist By Connie Frazer Because Grandma grew old twiddling thumbs, hands clasped, eight fingers locked together neat as a carpentry join; thumbs barrelling round and round, over and over