By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For most of the world's people, arms manufacturers excepted, the end of the Cold War came as a relief. But for the Reverend Moon Sun Myung, the leader of a Korea-based religious sect, it was a disaster. Citizens of
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The Story of the Grameen Bank and the Idea That Is Helping the Poor to Change Their LivesUniversity Press Ltd, 1966 Review by Doug Everingham
Economics Professor Mohammad Yunus met a Bangladeshi village woman making
By Chris Latham
PERTH The first public meeting of the anti-racist national Justice Tour by Yaluritja (Clarrie Isaacs) and Reihana Mohideen was held here on May 22. The meeting was attended by more than 60 people, who reacted warmly to the
Aborigines occupy Lee Point
By Bill Day
DARWIN — On May 12, homeless Aboriginal people here reoccupied Lee Point, a camp site in Darwin's northern suburbs. The group erected a large sign saying: "We need shelter, water, not games —
By Steve Bloom
While Mumia Abu-Jamal sits on death row, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is considering his application for a new trial. His defence team is turning up more and more evidence that Mumia's original conviction for the 1981 murder of
By Lisa Macdonald
While electioneering in January 1996. John Howard pledged that his government would "make the largest commitment to environmental action by any national government in Australia's history". Howard was, of course, indulging in
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — On May 7, two fire emergency vehicles raced through rain and peak hour traffic to the inner suburb of Carnegie, where a semi-trailer had reportedly overturned, trapping its driver. Finding nothing, the crews
TartuffeBy MoliereTranslated by Christopher HamptonDirected by Barrie KoskyThe Sydney Theatre Company with Louise Fox and Jacek KomanDrama Theatre, Sydney Opera House Review by Brendan Doyle
When Moliere's Tartuffe or The Hypocrite was first
Release Mordechai Vanunu!
By Linda Kaucher
The Australian Campaign to Free Vanunu, part of an international campaign for the freedom of Israeli anti-nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, has proposed an international monthly faxing
By Norm Dixon
"We are starting the second phase of our revolution — the reconstruction phase", announced the foreign minister in the new government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bizima Karaha, on May 21. Immediately after
Support for those withoutSupport for those without
By Brandon Astor Jones
"[Be] like a tree grown in a meadow.It greens, it doubles its yield,It stands in front of its lord.Its fruit is sweet, its shade delightful." — Amenemope (c.
By Anthony Benbow
PERTH — Anyone driving down Harvest Terrace past WA's parliament lately has been greeted by a blaze of light and colour. Day and night there is movement and activity, music, people talking, a welcoming fire against the cold
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