Public cinema for Newtown
SYDNEY — The third in a series of screenings to highlight the need for a public cinema in the inner suburb of Newtown takes place when the community newspaper Newtown Bridge presents Riding the Gale, a poignant
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By Jon Land
Two East Timorese were sentenced to prison for three years on June 27 for raising the flag of Fretilin in Dili on July 17 of last year. The peaceful protest marked the date that Suharto signed a bill declaring East Timor part of
ADELAIDE — The state Liberal cabinet has approved in principle a plan for businesses to employ prisoners. The proposal, prepared by the Department of Correctional Services, would allow companies to employ inmates as factory workers in remote
Wednesday Special: The Gadfly — This dramatised documentary is the story of Francis James, one of the most colourful and mysterious figures in Australia's recent history: air ace, journalist, publisher, agitator (an early and vocal opponent of the
Lesbians and gays rally in Brisbane
By Nick Everett and Ana Kailis
BRISBANE — 1500 people rallied on July 2 to support lesbian and gay rights. The rally, which commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, was followed by a
Southern Sky, Western Oval: A Year Inside League Football
By Martin Flanagan
McPhee Gribble, 1994. 191 pp., $14.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Footscray, in the western suburbs of Melbourne, has the highest unemployment rate (24%) in
Comment by Ray Hayes
Steve Rogers and June McKay in their article "Jobs at Risk in DEET Proposal" (Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, June 15) miss the point completely. Their analysis is unworthy of inclusion in the pages of a paper that attempts to play a
She can wear the pants
By Michael Boswell
PERTH — The trivial farce over women workers wearing trousers in the WA parliament ended on June 30 when the speakers of both the Legislative Assembly and Council indicated that women could now
By Peter Montague
For three years, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been reassessing the toxicity of dioxin and other dioxin-like chemicals, including dibenzofurans and some PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls).
PCBs are
By Tom Kelly
A breakthrough in solar energy technology at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) means that clean energy from the sun can now be cost-competitive with energy produced by the combustion of fossil fuels. This breakthrough,
By Sujatha Fernandes
Theatre, music, song and humour have been used to raise political consciousness in countries where dictatorships censor most forms of political expression. In India, a society in which women are still heavily subordinated
Humans and animals
Laura Bahnisch (Write on, #149) accuses Dave Riley ("Becoming Human", GLW #147) of speciesism for pointing to the fundamental distinction between human nature and animal nature.
Whilst it is often commonplace to compare
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