By Tony Smith
The rugby test series between Australia and the Springboks might not have settled much about the relative skills of the two sides. One thing the television coverage did decide, however, was "Guess which beer I'll never buy? Never
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Sam Wainwright
Playing games
On Friday Sydney — parts of it — went on an orgy of celebration. The establishment press declared triumphantly, "Our Sydney wins games". Fireworks and parties burst into the night. Sydney had been given the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW, the "White House", September 24 — As the rouble crashed and opposition newspapers were shut down, Russians on the fourth day after President Boris Yeltsin's coup d'etat were pondering a future of shattered links
In contrast to the Australian government aid, there are many non-government and community groups trying to help the poor within poor countries achieve real and lasting change.
International Women's Development Agency
The IWDA is an
By Sean Malloy
The vast majority of Palestinians in the occupied territories support the agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Israeli government, says Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab. Green Left Weekly spoke to
By Joan Coxsedge
For those of us who have spent the last few decades in the Labor Party and watched the revolting machinations of the machine boys — they were and are nearly all boys — wheeling and dealing away hard fought-for policies and
By Pip Hinman
One of Australia's leading jazz musicians, Vince Jones, has condemned the logging of East Gippsland's old growth forests. What the so-called selective logging really amounts to, he told Green Left Weekly, is mass destruction. And
By Peter Boyle
Paul Keating's visit to the US put a crack in the myth that the uncompleted Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade talks was really about bringing in a new era of global "free trade". His discussions with US
By Zanny Begg
In the Bihar region of India, the village of Mangardaha teeters 60 metres from the edge of an open pit coal mine. The houses groan and shake from the blasting of the mine, which operates 24 hours a day. Malaria, dysentery and
Comment by Sean Malloy
The right of nations to self-determination is not a universal, abstract concept applicable to every nation. It is a formula for overcoming the oppression of one nation by another in a concrete historical context.
On September 15 a PNG police riot squad detained, interrogated and severely beat Gewai Dusty Zamunu, a village leader and project manager working for a joint Rainforest Information Centre and Village Development Trust community development and
Radiance
By Louis Nowra
Directed by Rosalba Clemente
With Rachael Maza, Lydia Miller and Rhonda RobertsBelvoir Theatre, Sydney, to October 17. Reviewed by Zanny Begg
Radiance is a play about the search for self identity. Set in North
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