Adelaide's big laugh
By Bronwen Beechey
ADELAIDE — Music lovers here had their treat with Womadelaide; now it's the turn of comedy fans to indulge themselves. The Adelaide Festival Centre is presenting The Big Laugh — two weeks of comedy
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Chimps, AIDS and the environment
By Louis Proyect
In the February 1 New York Times, Lawrence K. Altman reported that scientists have discovered the origin of the AIDS virus in a subspecies of chimpanzee called Pan troglodytes troglodytes. The
By Damien Bradley
HOBART — On the Parliament Lawns on February 20, Resistance organised a speak-out against the Jabiluka uranium mine. The speak-out was chaired by Edwina Foster; speakers included Huw Lockwood, Ema Corro and Alex Bainbridge, all
The heroin problem, and the other one
In English writer Samuel Butler's 19th-century satirical novel Erewhon, the inhabitants of the mythical country attempt to breed a race of healthy and beautiful people by punishing sickness and infirmity as a
Lesbian and gay organising in Indonesia
By Orie Nalcagawa
SYDNEY — Indonesian society has become more accepting of homosexuality since the fall of former president Suharto, a leading Indonesian gay activist said on February 19. Speaking at the
By Stephanie Roper
SYDNEY — The NSW health system is failing to meet the needs of a large group of women. One in three to four women will have been sexually assaulted by the time that they turn 18. Yet there is only one specialised service for
Crew strikes against BHP cutback
By Jonathan Singer
SYDNEY — Maritime Union of Australia members aboard BHP's Iron Flinders struck on February 25 against the company's decision to withdraw its ships from the trans-Tasman route. The workers
Timbarra: Stuttering frog joins the fight
By Olivier Maxted Important new witnesses have been called in the legal battle against the Timbarra gold mine in northern NSW. Stuttering frogs, palmer wallabies and glossy black cockatoos are the
Taking on the system
A few weeks ago, the NSW ALP organised a $1000-a-head fundraiser at one of Sydney's most exclusive seafood restaurants — hardly a function for the "battler". And who won the 12 bottles of Grange Hermitage (worth around $3000)
Never again: women's experiences before the '70s
By Sarah Stephen
PERTH — Denise White was the honorary secretary of the WA Association for the Legal Right to Abortion during the 1970s and early '80s and a founder of the Abortion Information
My meeting with GA
Here I am, in the full term of my mature years, after years of this and that, and I'm turning Celtic. I've seen it happen to others. I've watched as some of my best friends have crossed over. Out go rhythm and blues, reggae
Italy's Communists move forward after split
By Eva Cheng
ROME — Last October, Italy's Rifondazione Comunista (Party of Communist Refoundation — PRC) brought down the government of Romano Prodi by using its balance of power to reject the
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