Controversial daily launched in PNG
By David Robie
A controversial new daily newspaper, published by an associate company of the Malaysian logging corporation which dominates Papua New Guinea's timber industry, appeared on November 11 —
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By Felicity Arbuthnot
In a small Baghdad grocery store, a child of perhaps five came in, clearly proud to be doing an important errand. He was clutching a five dinar note — approximately 9 British pence at the official rate of exchange.
The Wedding Banquet
Directed by Ang Lee
Brighton Bay, Kino cinemas, Melbourne
Reviewed by Wendy Robertson
The Wedding Banquet deals with a mixture of issues, including the everyday pressures of family and tradition that are faced by gay
By Anne O'Callaghan
Professor Manuel Amador is vice-director of the Cuban Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene. He was in Australia recently to attend the 15th International Conference of Nutrition, held in Adelaide from September 26 to
Some of Robyn Archer's best
Ancient Wonders
By Robyn Archer
Larrikin Records
Reviewed by Melanie Sjoberg
It is a reflection of the high level of seriousness that Robyn Archer pays to political issues and her home town, that she sent
Too much power
Canadian publisher Conrad Black's need to feed his enormous ego by revealing personal and political exploits (exploitations) in his self-important autobiography has lifted the lid once more on the shady dealings between leading
The Naked and the Dead
By Norman MailerWith an Introduction by John PilgerFlamingo 1993. 717 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon
In 1948, Norman Mailer published one of the best novels to come out of World War II. This 1993 reissue of
By Karen Fredericks
"In Mabo the High Court finally removed terra nullius [the premise that Australia was uninhabited at the time of its "settlement"] from Australian common law. I don't want to be part of a 1993 terra nullius, and I'm far from
Greenpeace and the Ningaloo Preservation Association on Exmouth on November 26 staged a protest against an oil company which is about to start exploration drilling next to a marine park of world significance off the WA coast.
Two Greenpeace
By Nicole Ernst
BRISBANE — Environmental activists protested in the early hours of the morning at the Hamilton wharves on November 22. The aim of the protest was to raise awareness about destructive logging operations in Malaysia.
MELBOURNE — The Australia Cuba Friendship Society organised a well-attended barbecue on November 21 to mark the completion of its latest project, which raised $4000 to pay for an electric power generator for a medical clinic in Cuba. The 80 people
C.D.s and Other Things
By Peter Lyssiotis and Gyorgy Scrinis
Masterthief Enterprises, 1993. 52 pp., $7.50
Reviewed by Anthony O'Donnell
"Only connect." This injunction of E.M. Forster's (I think) is as good a fulcrum as any from which to
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