The hole in Kennett's 'safety net'
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government's Employee Relations Act purports to establish a "safety net" of minimum conditions for the new employment agreements being forced on many workers.
Issue 91
News
90,000 Victorian workers take to the streets
By Roberto Jorquera
MELBOURNE — March 1 marked the death of the state award system here. Some 80,000 people marched in Melbourne and several thousand more rallied in regional centres to
Here is the complete list of seats in which green and left candidates are standing in the March 13 poll.
House of Representatives
Australian Democrats
New South Wales
All seats except Berowra, Calare, Chifley, Eden-Monaro, Fowler, Hunter,
World
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — It could have been any of a series of meetings called in recent times by the outlawed Communist Party. The venue was kept secret until the last moment. Would-be participants were required to appear on the morning
By Norm Dixon
SYDNEY — Australian human rights lawyer Rosemarie Gillespie, just returned after four months living and travelling in rebel-held areas of Bougainville, has dismissed claims by the Papua New Guinea government that it is in
Suharto still silent on vice-president
By Max Lane
The Indonesian People's Deliberative Assembly (MPR) began meeting on March 1. It is expected to re-elect Suharto as president and to choose a new vice-president sometime between March 9
'Gross human rights violations' in Sudan
Alarming reports of gross human rights violations continue to emerge from Sudan, said Amnesty International in a report issued on February 19.
"There are especially disturbing reports of mass
By Frank Noakes
JOHANNESBURG — Filling in for a physically exhausted Nelson Mandela, African National Congress chairperson Oliver Tambo addressed 900 delegates from five continents at an international solidarity conference here on February
Culture
Close My Eyes (R)
A film by Stephen Poliakoff
Starring Alan Rickman, Clive Owens, Saskia Reeves
Cinema Nova and Brighton Bay, March 1993
Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti
This second feature by writer-director Stephen Poliakoff (Hidden
By Michael Tardif
"We have a responsibility to pass down the history to our children ... It has to be more than just a hat, more than just a T-shirt", said Spike Lee, director of Malcolm X, on a recent JJJ interview. With LA still smouldering
Davis rescues a formula
On My Own
Directed by Antonio Tibaldi
With Judy Davis and Matthew Ferguson
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
On My Own is a teen coming of age film with a difference. At the edge of 15-year-old Simon's fairly
An unlikely tour de force
Punch me in the stomach!D>
By Deb Filler and Alison Summers
Directed by Alison Summers
Performed by Deb Filler
Anthill at the Gasworks Theatre, Melbourne, until March 21, then Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney, from
By Dave Riley
The rise of fascism in Germany and then the war produced the first major break in European cabaret tradition since its beginnings in the years after the 1871 Paris Commune.
While some cabarets were formed by exile German
>Trainspotting socialist from hell
668: Neighbour of the Beast
Attila the Stockbroker
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Nick Fredman
Attila the Stockbroker (AKA John Baines) is a stand-up comic, performance poet, singer, folk musician
Editorial
Economy and environment
A not uncommon comment during this campaign has been that "the election has been fought on the economy, not the environment".
In reality, it has been fought on neither the environment nor the economy. The ALP and