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The Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare Bell Shakespeare Company Directed by John Bell Footbridge Theatre, Sydney, to July 30 Reviewed by Peter Boyle Bell Shakespeare Company is touring Australia with a version of The Taming of
By Phil Shannon To listen to the Business Council of Australia (BCA), one could be forgiven for thinking that the greenhouse effect is just a load of hot air. At the high profile summit meeting on June 16 between representatives from
By Norm Dixon JOHANNESBURG — Hopes that the African National Congress-dominated government of national unity (GNU) will rapidly move to redistribute wealth and economic power have begun to fade with the presentation of its first budget in Cape
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Responding to pleas from terrified business people and urgent demands from Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Russian President Boris Yeltsin on June 14 issued a decree permitting tough action against Russia's vast and
ADELAIDE — More than 100 information technology workers, members of the Public Service Association, struck for one day on June 30 to protest against the proposed privatisation of the state government's computer networks. Computer giants IBM and EDS
It's been three and a half years since Green Left Weekly hit the streets during the anti-Gulf War protest movement. Our first issue demanded: "Stop the War!". By the third, the war had ended, but GLW didn't stop its coverage of the war's aftermath.

If a presidential election were held in Russia in the near future, the winner would very likely be a populist candidate pledging strong action against corruption and crime; opposing privatisation and promising a

Federal government to fund student organisations By Alex Bainbridge MELBOURNE — The federal government brought legislation before parliament on June 30 to override the "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation enacted by the
The Campaign to Oppose the Return of the Khmer Rouge (CORKR) in the United States has called on the US government to suspend military aid and training projects to Thailand. Sections of the Thai military are actively involved in supporting and arming
Is there a connection between sexism and racism? What role, if any, should the women's movement play in the fight against racism? Questions such as these will be among the issues taken up at the National Organisation of Women Students Australia
From Soweto to Perth By Tamara Desiatov PERTH — A Cultural Dissent program for youth, "From Soweto to Perth", was held here on June 18 to draw the international links in struggles by young people for freedom and justice. Eighteen

ADELAIDE — A new student group is campaigning to stop the Brown government from implementing cuts to education recommended in the recent audit report. Secondary Students Against Cuts, a Resistance-initiated campaign, was launched at a teachers' protest rally in May.