By Greg Miller
The tone of the front page article in the Australian of Friday, March 10, was exuberant. It splashed across three-quarters of available space and was supported by colour photos and diagrams. "$4bn pay TV plan world first",
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Cat's eye view of love
Seven Acts of Love (As Witnessed by a Cat)
Opening at Budinski's Theatre of Exile, Melbourne, August 9
Previewed by Bronwen Beechey
"I like to think that good theatre should operate as a kind of
By Eva Cheng
Beijing conducted another nuclear test in Xinjiang on May 15, two days after it had promised more than 170 countries that it would try hard not to do so before an agreement to ban nuclear tests is reached, which is scheduled
Voices of Aboriginal Australia: Past, Present, Future
Compiled by Irene Moores
Butterfly Books, 1995. 492 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Sujatha Fernandes
From the use of Aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman to advertise breakfast
Chirac I
@letter = President Jacques Chirac of France said, he will not budge from his decision to resume nuclear testing in Moruroa Atoll. The only other known creature with a reputation to never change its mind and stick to its position
By Peter Montague
After 30 years of scientific detective work, a picture has emerged strongly suggesting that US-style industrialisation is in fundamental conflict with living systems. Many common chemicals used in bulk quantities are now
@9point = Sunday Concert: Miriam Makeba — Makeba was in Australia in June for the first time in more than 10 years. Her concerts throughout the country were standing room only. She returned to her native South Africa in 1991 after 30 years exile.
By Adam Hanieh and Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Schools look set to enter the world of outsourcing and privatisation if the state Liberal government has its way. The South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) and the Public Service
By Norm Dixon
A large movement in opposition to the World Bank/International Monetary Fund-imposed structural adjustment program (SAP) is developing across Papua New Guinea. Of particular concern to the people is a plan to undermine the
Our right to choose
@column = The struggle to secure women's right to abortion
is ongoing. Access to abortion as a safe medical procedure
is a political issue in a system which stigmatises abortion
as a criminal act, and
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — An internal struggle in the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) culminated last week in a wholesale purge by the ISO National Committee of its Melbourne branch.
The expelled were members of an
By Dr Cathy Foley
The announcement by President Chirac that France will undertake a few quick nuclear weapon tests created a response in Australia that has taken many by surprise.
Since the end of the Cold War and the signing of
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