Arriesgaré la Piel (I Will Risk My Skin)By Inti-IllimaniXenophile Records through Festival
Review by Barry Healy
If Augusto Pinochet is the great survivor of Chilean right-wing politics, then surely Inti-Illimani rank with the great
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By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — An estimated 3000 people rallied on March 21 at the GPO to oppose the Howard government's 10-point plan. The rally was organised to promote a statement endorsed by a coalition of groups calling for the abandonment of the
By Margaret Gleeson
SYDNEY — A meeting of commonwealth and state housing ministers on March 27 failed to resolve the impasse over financing public housing beyond the current agreement, due to expire on June 30, 1999. Under the agreement the
Have play/will travel
By Al McCall
The New World Order Theatre is a new venture and, as it turns out, a rather unusual one. Instead of being tied to the normal paraphernalia and formality of main stage theatre, New World Order Theatre reckons it
Feminist revisionism
The anti-child-care propaganda emanating from politicians and "social commentators" ever since the Howard government launched its "back to the family" campaign in 1996 took a new twist a few weeks ago.
Until now, most of
By David Bacon
TIJUANA, Baja California — Norberto Cordoba sacrificed his job, trying to end conditions in his factory so dangerous he was afraid someone would die. Cordoba was employed at the Han Young plant in Tijuana, making truck chassis and
By Kathy Pinkus
HOBART — A Bed Of Roses, a women's writing exhibition, to open shortly, has been the long-time dream of women's refuge workers, Anne and Lilly. They feel it is a way of "opening doors into women's lives". The exhibition comprises
Editorial: Transport madness
Transport madness
In Sydney last week, haze from bushfires hung over the city, mixing with "normal" pollutants to produce a pollution index reading more than double the "acceptable" limit. Coincidentally, the Sydney
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The myth, peddled by the establishment press and politicians, that the public service is over regulated, an easy job for life and a haven for incompetent workers, is being pushed here in a new government report
The Wik bill: land rights for mining companies
By Jennifer Thompson
Since November 19, the mining industry has been publicly campaigning for the Senate to pass the government's Wik bill. Minerals Council of Australia president, Nick Stump, told a
By Norm Dixon
Soon after US President Bill Clinton departed from the tiny Ugandan town of Mukono, a poor peasant named Paladi surveyed his shattered two-room house and his meagre possessions strewn about the chook yard. A huge wind caused by the US
JAKARTA — From left to right: Jacob (Free West Papua movement, sentenced to 17 years jail); Wimandjaya (on trial for assisting in the publication of banned booklet); Nuku Suleiman (Pijar, sentenced to five years jail); Bungkus (Indonesian Communist
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