By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — While participants can "expect the unexpected" at a one-off "happening" at the Pod Gallery in Darlinghurst on September 19, artist Cat Miller can name some things that will definitely be there: a recycled fashion
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What ever happened to the MFP? End of the ride on Japan's dream machine "It is the image of a hill. At the top is standing the statue of Plato. In the middle of the hill there is the statue of Archimedes and at the foot of the hill are statues
Reappraising ockerdom Following the success of last year's inaugural festival, the 1992 Australian Film Festival opens around Australia on July 23. Each state has its own program of public screenings and events between July and September.
In the gutter "Our democracy is lying in the gutter waiting for us to give it a second breath of life." — US Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate Al Gore, speaking to the party's convention in New York. After his speech, Gore waltzed
By Sean Malloy MELBOURNE — "There is a real sentiment of seriousness amongst young people today. We know we can't play at politics, because it really is our lives and the lives of many others and the future of the planet at stake", said Kylie
By Katrina Newton and Loretta Asquini MELBOURNE — It's no secret that our society has a very contradictory attitude towards young people. On the one hand, youth is idealised and revered by the mainstream media, yet in reality, young people
By Tracy Sorensen SYDNEY — Training people for jobs that don't exist is a "cruel game", says the social justice group Young Christian Workers. Labor's claim that the economy will turn around, creating the need for highly skilled young
By Peter Boyle "It looks like it is going to be more hot air", said Resistance spokesperson Francesca Davidson about the Keating government's July 22 "Youth Jobs Summit". "Young people have been told that it is a summit about us, but we are not
On the box By Dave Riley The drought may be over. In a week of transitions, we lost the Doug Anthony All Stars — and good riddance to them, I say. There is no pleasure in the nihilistic egotism of these boys left over from a brown shirt
By Norm Dixon LONDON — Britain's Ugandan community has appealed to international aid donors not to be taken in by "the fallacious propaganda of the government of Uganda". John Obwona-lanana, chairperson of the Ugandan Community in the UK,
National parks celebration SYDNEY — The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service will celebrate its 25th anniversary in October with a number of walks and other events. About 5% of the state is covered by the service's 76 national parks and
By Michael Karadjis The Republic of Macedonia could be the next target in Serbian warlord Slobodan Milosevic's campaign against his neighbours. On June 26, the European Community caved in to Greek demands and decided to refuse recognition of
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