SYDNEY — It is generally taken for granted that plays with a political message are as dull as dishwater. This generalisation could not be further from the truth when dealing with the works of Dario Fo, Italy's Nobel Prize-winning playwright.
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BY FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE
This an abridged version of a statement delivered by Cuban foreign Felipe Perez Roque at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, March 27, 2001. It has been lightly abridged.
We have come
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
ROSTOV — Among analysts, there is general agreement that the affair of Colonel Budanov should have split Russia. It should have split it into people who are sure that their country's army is always in the right, and that the
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — Tensions are rising in the central Queensland coalfields as mine workers hold firm in their strike against BHP over a new enterprise agreement.
Around 1500 workers at six coalmines are involved in the dispute, which
BY EVA CHENG
More than 150 farmers and students dumped onions, soybeans, garlic and other products on the doorstep of a secretive regional meeting of the World Trade Organisation held in the northern city of Chiang Mai on March 27-28.
The move
BY JIM GREEN
United States President George W. Bush and his administration have been condemned around the world for their March 29 announcement that the US will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions.
The decision was
BY ALISON DELLIT
"When I see people on TV who are starving, I just cry. I mean, I'd like to be that thin but not with all the flies and death and stuff." — Singer Mariah Carey, 1998.
Mariah Carey's sympathy for the hungry did not generate calls
BY ANDREW HALL
CANBERRA — Canberra Hospital and community care nurses again protested on March 27 as the stand-off with the ACT Liberal government and the independent health minister Michael Moore continued.
Australian Nursing Federation (ANF)
BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY In the days following the escape by 14 refugees from the
Villawood detention centre on March 26, more than 50 homes of people who
had visited detainees were raided by officers from the Department of
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
DARWIN — The M1 Alliance here launched its May 1 blockade of the Northern Territory Chamber of Commerce on March 23, drawing an overwhelming response from passers-by when they asked them to vote for who they thought should be
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