The Mardi Gras Film FestivalAcademy Twin Cinema, SydneyFebruary 15-28, 1996Organised by Queer ScreenPreviewed by Philippa Marsden The Mardi Gras Film Festival, organised by community-based arts organisation Queer Screen, is being held again at the
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By Jen Crothers The federal government has allocated $2.795 million over three years for an additional 175 undergraduate places at Southern Cross University (SCU) in Queensland. All places are funded under the Commonwealth Industry Places Scheme
BRISBANE — "The Fight for Land Rights" was the topic of the first Resistance meeting for 1996, held here on January 27. Speakers addressed the topic of how to create a society in which Aboriginal people have justice, in a country where 208 years of
By Alison Dellit The launch of the ALP's youth initiatives on January 29 continued the federal government's trend of encouraging low youth "training" wages and government subsidies to business. Sounding much like an earlier Labor PM's pledge that "no
Resources "The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant." — Lord David Cecil Many readers have written to me seeking various kinds of information. In large part I have not been able to answer those letters because there are too few
By Dave Riley "It's started, hasn't it? I thought so. There'll be no peace until it's over." "Come on, Mum, "I said, "It's only election time. Over the next few weeks, we get to compare one party's wares with another." "Ummmph!", she said, and went
By James Vassilopoulos CANBERRA — Campaign Against Nuclear Testing has decided to support the Democratic Socialists in the March 2 election. CANT is the group which last year organised actions opposing French nuclear testing and Australian mining
By Sean Moysey CANBERRA — ACT Greens lead senate candidate Deborah Foskey launched the Australian Greens' work and employment policy outside the CES office in Civic on February 2. Foskey said that the "solution to unemployment is linked to sound
Coalition leader John Howard has pulled out all stops to buy the votes of environmentalists on March 2. His four year "green plan", costed at $1 billion, is more than double the amount promised by Labor. However, there's a poisoned chalice in its
By Nick Fredman SYDNEY — Relations between the NSW Teachers Federation and the Carr Labor government have further soured over a dispute involving forced transfers from Lurnea High School. This is the third time the union has been at odds with the
Three anti-nuclear activists from Melbourne walked 1000 kilometres from Kiev in Ukraine, through Belarus to Smolensk in Russia. They were taking part in an anti-nuclear walk that began in Brussels in January and ended in Moscow on October 13, 1995.
Call for East Timor day of solidarity Last week Jose Ramos Horta, special representative of the National Council for Maubere Resistance (CNRM) called on all people in Australia to add their support to the campaign to demand a withdrawal of the
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