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The Vatican Vatican City is an independent state with a population of roughly 1000 people, who are principally Vatican employees, including a large number of priests and nuns. The pope is the monarch for life of the Vatican. The state is
By David Robie PORT MORESBY — A manoeuvre by Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis. The move follows growing unrest about Wingti's plans to abolish the nation's provincial government
By Holly Hammond and Tamara Desiatov PERTH — It's Artrage time again, Perth's annual arts festival. Artrage has become a predominantly mainstream arts festival, with a lack of dissenting art and hence a lack of "rage". Artrage has
John Albert debut solo Through a Mirror John Albert Sunset Music through Larrikin Reviewed by Ignatius Kim It's not exactly easy listening, but this debut solo album from Aboriginal singer/songwriter John Albert (used to front for
Referendum on voting system By Kim Linden UCKLAND — There are two votes for New Zealanders on November 6, one to elect a government and the other to decide how governments are elected in the future. The choice in the referendum is
Cuban film fest SYDNEY — The Fairfield School of Arts will host a video festival of films from and about Cuba on Sunday, October 31, at 2 p.m. The films are presented by the Australia-Cuba Friendship Society. Proceeds from the event will
By Catherine Brown The past year has been a bad one for the Catholic Church hierarchy. In the Catholic heartlands, in so far as there are any these days, popular support for the "moral fads" which Pope John Paul II attacks in his new encyclical
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Since tanks of the armed forces finally blew away Russia's parliament on October 4, President Boris Yeltsin has moved swiftly to suspend, disband or intimidate the major potential sources of opposition to his rule.
A year ago the British government of John Major announced a massive coal mine closure plan that within months would have closed 30 pits with the loss of 30,000 jobs. The announcement produced an outcry from the broader community which culminated in a
Aboriginal march in Adelaide By Tully Bates ADELAIDE — One hundred and fifty people marched from Parliament House to the Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Institute on October 13 to show their opposition to the proposal to scrap the Racial
We are not a 'target market' Oh goody, just what we need — another "women's interest" magazine. The New Weekly, launched on October 14, is the latest offering from the man who brings us Woman's Day, Women's Weekly, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, Dolly

Tina: What's Love Got To Do With It? Directed by Brian Gibson Written by Kate Lanier from the book by Tina Turner Reviewed by Col Hesse It has always been a project fraught with difficulty to make films which seek to trace the rise of