Back of BeyondDirected by Michael RobertsonStarring Paul Mercurio and Colin FrielsScreening at Hoyts cinemasReviewed by Margaret Allan The promotional material for this film promises, "Back of Beyond — a journey you never imagined". Quite frankly
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Programs of interest on Sydney Community TV (UHF 31) — Perleeka, indigenous Australians' program, nightly, 7pm. Art Experimenta, Mondays, 8pm and 11.30pm, and Tuesdays, 3am and 6.30am. Bent TV, Gay and lesbian program, Thursdays, 10.30pm and
By Tom Flanagan DARWIN — Two visitors from Texas, US gave unexpected support to local protesters against the ERA uranium shipment on November 2. When George and Dora Mower, aged 68 and 71, bought two of the nine passenger tickets for a round the
By Doug Lorimer Confronted by a massive campaign of chauvinist propaganda and economic blackmail by the Canadian ruling class and its parties, a narrow majority of Québec voters on October 30 rejected a proposal for Québec
By Ben Courtice HOBART — Some members of the state Labor Opposition want to leave open the option of entering a new alliance with the Green Party after the next state election, due in February 1996. However, Opposition leader Michael Field insists
By Karen Fletcher and Chris Spindler SYDNEY — Around 400 nurses and patients gathered outside St Vincent's public hospital in Darlinghurst on November 1 to protest against the loss of at least 70 beds and several vital services as a result of
By Norm Dixon The announcement in late October by the South African safety and security minister, Sydney Mufamadi, that former apartheid regime defence minister General Magnus Malan and ten senior defence officers are to be charged with murder in
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Australian Meat Holdings and the meatworkers' union have agreed to re-open three Queensland abattoirs closed for almost a month by a dispute over enterprise bargaining. More than 1700 meatworkers returned to work under
Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex and HairBy Lisa JonesPenguin Books, 1994. 306 pp., $14.95 (pb)Reviewed by Carla Gorton Bulletproof Diva is a collection of street-wise, straight talking and opinionated articles by Lisa Jones. Jones is a staff
Tom Flanagan DARWIN — The actions of trade unions played a decisive role in the delay, and eventual success, of ERA's efforts to export a shipment of uranium from Fort Hill Wharf last week. The threat of union bans was one of the factors that led
Virtual morality "The university of Dallas, a Catholic institution, is considering a rule that would make sex in the dormitory rooms punishable by expulsion ... To avoid creating an incentive for abortion, the rule would exempt pregnant women from
By Joan Coxsedge ASIO recently tabled its annual report — more accurately, its annual fundraiser — in the federal parliament. This yearly caper is a ploy by senior ALP figures to claim that ASIO is now "open and accountable" and thereby block
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