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Open Learning — Journals and Letters of Colonial Women — Voices not often heard in colonial literature were those of women. Most women's writing was in the form of letter or journal, rather than in the public arena. This program considers a

Indian homeland in Nicaragua threatened

Indian homeland in Nicaragua threatened By Darwin Juarez A 720,000 hectare forest reserve in north-eastern Nicaragua, home to 95% of Central America's Sumu Indians, is under attack by a Canadian mining company, Nicaraguan

Looking out: Any suggestions?

Looking out: Any suggestions? By Brandon Astor Jones Some readers may have heard about John Crawford, the top US spokesman for the British luxury car maker Jaguar. Recently, he addressed a group of journalists at an automobile

Strong opposition to DSS agency bargaining agreement

By Afrodity Giannakis Social Security members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) recently voted on the DSS "in-principle" agency bargaining agreement for 1995. Although the agreement was accepted on a national level, in NSW it

Progress report

Progress report "Prince Ranariddh claimed the King [Sihanouk] told him that he would only retake political power on three conditions: that there be one party, no media freedom, and no human rights organizations." — Sue Downie in the September

Indigenous festival in Sydney

Indigenous festival in Sydney The second annual Nambundah festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, to be held in Sydney September 26-October 9, aims to present the talent and diversity of indigenous artists to the Aboriginal

Health and the 'new world order'

By Karl Miller Last year the World Health Organisation (WHO) released its eighth report on world health. The document, which evaluates WHO's global strategy, "Health For All by the Year 2000", in place since 1981, measures its success by a

A powerful assault on stereotypes

The Politics of Belly Dancing: A choreopoem By Paula Abood Reviewed by Rosanna Barbero The Politics of Belly Dancing has concluded at the Performance Space in Sydney, and is now on its way to Wollongong and Canberra. It combats

Reactionary to the bootstraps

Dateline: Menzies' Legacy SBS, Saturday, October 1, 7.30pm Reviewed by Frank Enright It is rare that "elder statesmen" and good mates Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser disagree nowadays. The historical record of twice prime

Racist hysteria follows Newman murder

By Michael Karadjis English migrant Bernadette Wallace was stabbed to death in her home during a "home invasion" on August 20. The killers were described by her husband as having "short blond hair". On September 5, the state ALP member for

Caught up in the coils of bureaucracy

Ladybird, Ladybird Directed by Ken Loach Screenplay by Rona Munro Showing from mid-October at Dendy Cinema, Sydney Reviewed by Peter Boyle This is a sad tale of injustice at the hands of the British welfare bureaucracy.

Rising unemployment in Russia signals new conflicts

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — By the standards of most countries in most epochs, the Russian government, led for almost two years by Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, should have perished long ago. It has survived largely by resorting to