Call to repeal 45D and E
By Dave Wright
HOBART — Noel Rafferty, state secretary of the Waterside Workers Federation, has called on the Keating government to repeal sections 45D and E of the Trade Practices Act.
A resolution
Issue 93
News
By Andrew Watson
PERTH — West Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court has signalled a Jeff Kennett style of approach to industrial relations, aiming to introduce new anti-union legislation when parliament sits in May.
The proposed
Handbook for activists
By Stephen Bavaro
SYDNEY — The Activists Defence Network (ADN) will soon be launching the Activists Defence Handbook.
A spokesperson for the ADN says that the handbook will be available by late March or early
Sean Kenan acquitted
Aidex protester Sean Kenan was acquitted of charges of assaulting police by the ACT Supreme Court on March 19, following failure by the prosecution to prove at least one key element of the alleged offence.
Kenan was
Rainbow Warrior visits Hobart
By Rohan Gaiswinkler
HOBART — The Rainbow Warrior visited Hobart from March 11. The launch of the Greenpeace "Cities and Coasts Campaign" took place on board on March 12.
The campaign targets
EYA pedals against pollution
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE — The next generation of young people faces tremendous problems of pollution and environmental destruction because of the neglect of the past, Phoebe Clark, a 13-year-old high school
Rally against police violence
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Wearing a variety of masks, a small group of people demonstrated outside the South Melbourne police station on March 11 to protest against bashings by police of people taken into
Union deal saves train lines but may cost jobs
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A deal struck between transport minister Alan Brown and rail unions has saved a number of rail services throughout Victoria, but about 5500 jobs will be shed in
Council attacks free speech rally
By Maurice Sibelle
BRISBANE — Brisbane City Council officers, with help from the Queensland Police, confiscated an information stall from free speech protesters in the Queen Street Mall on March 19.
Qld police slammed on Operation Trident
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The controversial Operation Trident car-stealing scam was poorly conceived, incompetently executed and tainted from beginning to end, according to the Carter report
When Paul Keating thanked the "true believers" in Labor for re-electing his government on March 13, he was met with a wild ovation from the loyal crowd at the Bankstown Leagues Club. But PETER BOYLE asks: what is the worth of his promise to
In Melbourne this week
By Bronwen Beechey
St Kilda Film Festival
Every year the St Kilda Film Festival presents an extraordinarily diverse program of new Australian short films and videos, made by students at film and TV schools and
Tasmanian teachers' bank accounts raided
By Shayne McCallum
HOBART — Outrage has erupted among Tasmanian teachers over revelations by a Tasmanian building society senior executive that money has been deducted from teachers' personal
World
Secret radioactive dumping in Pacific
WASHINGTON — Reports from the European press that the Soviet Navy secretly dumped nuclear reactors and radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan indicate a more damaging nuclear legacy of the Cold War
MARINA CARMAN's family left South Africa in 1977 and returned for their first visit in December. Here she describes what she found.
The one word that hits more than any other and around which everything else seems to circle is: change.
By Catherine Brown
Last year the Italian government announced plans for extensive privatisation of government-owned industry. Now, the prime targets for privatisation are in the thick of a massive corruption scandal. All major state companies
The government in Panama has banned the showing of a critically acclaimed documentary on the 1989 US invasion of the country, which put the present government in office.
The film, The Panama Deception, has been nominated for an Oscar as well
ANC condemn UNITA
By Frank Noakes
JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress national executive has launched a national campaign of solidarity and support for Angola, and is calling on the international community to take all
Campaign for jailed publisher
An international campaign in solidarity with South Korean publisher Ilbung Choe is being stepped up with the launch of an international petition. Choe was jailed for two years in October merely for publishing
South Africa fuels Rwanda civil war
Copies of two invoices received by the Oslo-based World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa reveal that arms and ammunition worth around US$6 million were sold to the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Amid anguished plaints from liberal ideologues and the indifference of the mass of the population, the Eighth Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation voted on March 12 to strip President Boris
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "What has occurred has been an attempt to concentrate power fully in the hands of the Soviets, to return the Communist nomenklatura to the levers of government, and to seize back the democratic conquests of August
By Igal Avidan
On February 28 exactly 50 years ago, a few hundred women began a historic demonstration in Nazi Germany — perhaps the only public protest against the Holocaust ever to be staged under Hitler.
Yet the demonstration is
Culture
Blood Moon
By Tes Lyssiotis
Directed by Robert Draffin
Cast: Nina Landis, Maggie Millar, Diedre Rubinstein, Mary Sitarenos
Theatreworks, Melbourne, until March 28
Reviewed by Bronwen Beechey
Blood Moon is Tes Lyssiotis' 13th play
Power and Money
By Ernest Mandel
London: Verso. 251 pp. $34.95
Reviewed by Jason Cheng
Readers familiar with Ernest Mandel's incisive and readable work will not be disappointed by Power and Money, in which he presents a Marxist theory
A habit of breaking new ground
The Times Of Zenia Gold
By Chris Jones
Black Wattle Press
Reviewed by Michael Arnold
Being at the forefront of new queerground is almost old hat for poet Chris Jones. Chris was involved in the
By Peter Boyle
Linn Van Hek and Joe Dolce presented Difficult Women, readings and songs celebrating "women who have dared to stand up and speak", to completely sold out seasons at Melbourne's La Mamma and Budinski's theatres last year. Then,
By Max Lane
The March issue of Australian Left Review is the magazine's last. The magazine was published for many years by the Communist Party. When that party dissolved, some ex-members backed ALR financially. According to editor David
Asia's booming economies
By Norm Dixon
Hong Kong-born SBS reporter Jane Hutcheon has spent six and a half weeks investigating Asia's fast-growing economies and the impact this development is having on ordinary people. She visited six
Poetry for the jobless
By Stephen Bavaro
SYDNEY — The Unemployed People's Embassy, based in the inner southern suburbs of Marrickville and St. Peters, has established the Poetry Party.
A spokesperson for the UPE said that the idea
Stay home, Soldier
The Crying Game
Directed by Neil Jordan
Reviewed by Reihana Mohideen
In the first few minutes, the contradictions dealt with in the film come at you thick and fast. A black English soldier (Forest Whitaker) on duty
Hollywood backlash
Scent of a Woman
Directed by Martin Brest
Written by Bo Goldman
With Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell
Greater Union
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
I was prejudiced about this film before I even saw it because of
One False Move
Directed by Carl Franklin
Written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson
With Bill Paxton and Lynda Williams
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
This is a powerful movie from a new African American director, Carl Franklin. It's
Power and Protest: Movements for Social Change in Australian Society
By Verity Burgmann
Allen and Unwin. 302 pp. $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Vannessa Hearman
Verity Burgmann, co-editor of the four volume A People's History of Australia
Editorial
Delivering
According to George Campbell, national secretary of the Automotive, Metals and Engineering Union, "we can never again allow the trade union movement to become so weak that large sections of it are dependent upon a Labor government