Tim Anderson
Wrongly convicted
Gregory Brown, convicted of killing six people in the 1989 "backpackers fire", is innocent. He was wrongly convicted in a juryless trial before Justice Peter McInerney late last year, and will be sentenced
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By Sue Humphries
WOLLONGONG — Wollongong Resistance had no hesitation in recommending that young people vote for Greens or the Democratic Socialists in last weekend's federal election. This recommendation was announced at a
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — The names of Juan Dávila, Xiomara and Alma Nubia will never be registered in any US State Department "Human Rights Reports". Juan Dávila was shot in the chest by recontras when he answered a late night
Vietnamese statement
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry replied promptly to the charges regarding the three former Vietnamese soldiers.
A spokesperson said that "UNTAC itself and Prince Norodom Sihanouk himself have more than once confirmed
IRA
In response to Norman Taylor's letter (GLW Feb 24), I find it incomprehensible that someone could say National Action and the IRA are similar with their "policy of unending violence".
It is obvious that Mr. Taylor has no knowledge of
MELBOURNE — Young people lined up to "limbo" under a symbolic "poverty line" at a special street theatre organised by the youth group Resistance in Bourke Street Mall on March 10. Paul Keating and John Hewson, in full electioneering mode, kept
By Max Lane
A recent Newsweek poll found that 84% of African-Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 consider Malcolm X a hero. Spike Lee's film is obviously meant to reinforce this view. In too many ways, however, it fails.
Most radical
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — When perestroika began, the environmental movement in the USSR grew strongly. But the movement has tended to die away as anger at the damage wrought by the old order was swamped by the difficulties of surviving
Of Mice and Men
Screenplay by Horton Foote
Based on the novel John Steinbeck
Directed by Gary Sinese
With Gary Sinese, John Malkovich, Sherilyn Fenn, Ray Walston, Joe Morton
At Greater Union Pitt St, Sydney
Reviewed by Max Lane
A
Indonesia defeated over East Timor at UN
The Indonesian government suffered a major defeat at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva on March 11, as 22 member states voted in favour of a resolution on East Timor.
The
Women in prison
Convicted
SBS documentary in the Cutting Edge series
Tuesday, March 23, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Kath Tucker
"When you imprison a woman, you imprison her children." Eighty per cent of women in
Call for independent monitor on custody
The National Committee to Defend Black Rights has called for two strategies dealing with black deaths in custody to be immediately implemented by the government.
NCDBR wants full and immediate
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