Arson at PNG Forest Authority
By Jon Land
Fire on the weekend of June 5 destroyed extensive records of the Papua New Guinea Forest Authority. The PNG police are treating the case as arson. It comes in the midst of attempts by logging
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Child-care meeting warns of changes
By Sean Moysey
WOLLONGONG — On June 16, 80 people met at Wollongong Town Hall to discuss proposed changes to child-care assistance.
David Guy, manager of the Illawarra Child Care Services Action
L'Ombre du Doute (A Shadow of Doubt)
Directed by Aline Issermann
Starring Mireille Perrier, Alain Bashung, Sandrine Blancke
Opens at the Sydney Academy Twin, June 30
Reviewed by L. Pradhan
Issermann says that all of her films deal with
NOWSA conference at Macquarie Uni
By Kathy O'Driscall
SYDNEY — "NOWSA has provided a fantastic networking opportunity for women student activists since it first began in 1987. Hopefully, this year we'll be able to have more concrete
True Stories: The Real Jurassic Park — This documentary asks, Was Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park fiction, or is it possible? The film by David Dugan involves molecular biologists, palaeontologists and embryologists in answering questions such as,
Changes in Brazil's election law, voted in by the conservative majority in the Congress, have put new restrictions on opposition parties' rights to broadcast and disseminate their views.
The original law, enacted before the 1989 election, gave
Lagman freed
By Sonny Melencio
MANILA — Filemon Lagman, the underground leader of the Manila Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was released from detention on bail of 100,000 pesos on the evening of June 17.
Ear to the Ground — Burra: Transitions — Continuing a feature series on South Australian history, this program looks at the former copper mining town of Burra in the state's mid-north. Cornish miners, Chilean muleteers, pigeons in the mine
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — Delegates and officials from the main unions in the oil industry met with ACTU secretary Bill Kelty on June 14 to discuss a campaign in response to the massive attack by Caltex on the wages and conditions of Kurnell
Health insurance should be unnecessary
Recent reports to the federal health minister have once again raised the perennial problem of Australian politics — health funding. For ideological and self-interested reasons, the debate is unlikely to
By Gareth W.R. Smith
CANBERRA — Gareth Evans, speaking of the November 1991 Dili killings, described them as "horribly aberrant behaviour ... rather than a deliberate, centrally directed act of state policy". However, the experience of
'Armed and Dangerous': My Undercover Struggle Against Apartheid
By Ronnie Kasrils
Heinemann, 1993. 374 pp., $15.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
When Ronnie Kasrils touched down at Johannesburg airport in 1989, he had chalked up 30 years
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