By Leon Harrison
PERTH — The annual gay art exhibition, which was to be staged at the Western Australian Museum during the 1995 Pride Festival, has been banned. The exhibition, entitled "Queer as Hell" and organised by That Way Inclined Gay
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By Helen Jarvis
HANOI, September 2 — September is the time for typhoons in Vietnam, and Hanoi has this week been lashed by the fifth typhoon this season, severely curtailing the preparations and rehearsals for the long-awaited 50th anniversary
By Carla Gorton
"It is now 50 years since the most devastating crime against humanity was committed, yet the leaders of the nuclear weapon states continue to sophisticate their weapons." This was the opening comment by peace activist Don Jarrett
Darwin uranium shipment delayeBy Tom Flanagan
DARWIN — Anti-nuclear protests have influenced Energy Resources Australia, the operator of Ranger uranium mine, to delay a scheduled shipment of uranium ore. On September 7 the mine's general
By Peter Montague
An industrial process for making glass fibres was first patented in Russia in 1840. At the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Edward Libbey exhibited lamp shades, a dress, and other articles woven from glass fibres. In
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of AmericaSteven Fraser (ed)BasicBooks, 1995. 216 pp., $16 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon In the last few months, you may have seen an imposing book glowering down at you from the new releases
By Sujatha Fernandes
After 17 years of rule by the right-wing United National Party (UNP) government in Sri Lanka, the People's alliance (PA) was elected to government in August 1994 on a wave of popular support. One of its main promises was to
By Sean Healy
MELBOURNE — Recent events at La Trobe University, where students managed to beat back a university attempt to cut Students' Representative Council (SRC) funding, have put the issue of the Kennett government's "voluntary student
By Lisa Macdonald
The 75th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Australia in October will be marked by a range of events being organised by socialists around the country. One of the features of these commemoration activities
"Why, I wondered, did no-one ask, 'Will the justice system survive?' after an all-White jury set free the White policemen who beat Rodney King? — Larry Conley
Recently I read the well-crafted essay of a very brave man. It was published in the
The following is an abridged message sent by women from the East Timorese resistance to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing on September 6. In the middle of the night amidst a great silence in Dili, I'm thinking of you all, and I imagine
By Jennifer Thompson
"We have to follow through on our commitment to protect Sarajevo and the other (UN-designated) safe areas", President Clinton said last week. "We cannot allow more innocent civilians to die there. This war has to end by
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