On March 31, the East Timorese resistance received news from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that the Indonesian foreign minister, Ali Alatas, had asked for a postponement of the intra-Timorese meeting scheduled to be held in Salzburg,
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By Lisa Macdonald
Activists from the environment, women's, solidarity and workers' rights movements will be gathering at a Marxist Education Conference in Perth over the Easter weekend, April 15-17.
This conference, the first of its kind in
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — The short film, a poor relation of cinema for years, is experiencing something of a resurgence. Films like Ana Kokkinis' Only the Brave have won international awards and cinema distribution. Some of the more
The senator's skeletons
The WA senator with domestic violence skeletons in his closet was forced on April 3 to resign from his position as deputy president of the Senate, after his admission of having bashed his wife. Resignation was his only
By Tim Dauth
JOHANNESBURG — "Consolidate and advance": these are the tasks, delegates to the South African Communist Party Gauteng regional congress here decided on March 18-19. The congress recognised that the immediate task is to address the
Rob Roy
Starring Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth and Eric Staltz
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Robert Roy MacGregor was a Scottish clan chief whose life, mediated through a great romantic book by
Poor Super Man
By Brad Fraser
Sydney Theatre Company's New Stages
Wharf 2, Sydney, until April 29
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Q: Have you heard the rumour that Superman was gay? His obituary in the November 20, 1992, Sydney Morning Herald
Australia 1995
By John Tomlinson
As we woodchip our way towards a forest policy,
setting up bilby abattoirs in Pitjantjatjara country,
our journalists inquire of highly paid bankers
whether we should put up interest rates
in order to
Business as usual in NSW
The election of Labor right-winger Bob Carr to the NSW premiership has hardly created a ripple. The unanimous view, it seems, is that the Carr government's policies won't deviate significantly from those of its Coalition
Thirty-seven people — 22 civilians and 15 alleged guerillas — were killed by the Indonesian army in West Papua between June 1994 and February 1995, according to a report released by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) on April 5.
Victorian hospital jobs under threat
By Seetal Dodd
MELBOURNE — Jobs and job security are under threat at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, formed in a recent amalgamation between Heidelberg and Austin hospitals in Melbourne's
United States: Essays 1952-1992
By Gore Vidal
Abacus, 1994. 1295 pp., $19.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Gore Vidal has, for most of his 70 years, been writing novels, plays, essays and journalism in a brave attempt to hold back the
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