Supportive
"Those people, including senior Federal Labor ministers, have all been very supportive, many expressing their disgust at the attacks on me and urging me not to resign as Deputy President [of the Senate]." — Wife-basher Senator Noel
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By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Arthur Tunstall
Timorese student killed
According to Portuguese press reports, on May 18 East Timorese student Filomeno dos Santos, 26 years old, died in prison in Dili after being tortured for several hours by three Indonesian intelligence agents.
Family
ROTTERDAM — Greenpeace has found alarmingly high levels of a highly toxic organochlorine chemical in sediments along the eastern edge of the North Sea in the Wadden See, the environmental group said on May 15.
The chemicals, chlorinated
JAKARTA sources have revealed that Lt Gen Herman Mantiri, recently retired chief of the general staff, may be appointed Indonesian ambassador to Australia. Six months after the Dili massacre, he said in an interview: "We don't regret anything. What
By Max Lane
On May 14 the Indonesian press reported that the prison memoirs of the country's most popular and respected novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, had been banned. The banning order for Silent Song of a Mute had been signed by Attorney
By Peter Montague
New research on loss of species indicates that extinctions are occurring now at a rate 100 to 1000 times as fast as "natural background" rates of extinction. (Stuart Pimm, "Seeds of Our Own Destruction", New Scientist, April 8,
By Jim McIlroy
BRISBANE, May 21 — As we go to press, a return-to-work recommendation is to be put to a mass meeting of Mt Isa workers on Monday, May 22. Whatever the vote at the meeting, it is clear that the workers face an ongoing struggle to
The Nicotine War
The Cutting Edge, SBS TV, Wednesday May 31, 9.30pm (8 in SA)
Previewed by Lisa Macdonald
Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known. Despite this, in the US, tobacco is defined as an agricultural product and so
The Aryan Nation: A Cross to Burn
SBS TV
Monday, May 29, 11.55pm (11.25 in SA)
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
This short report, produced for a Utah news program, kicks off a week of programs on SBS that look into racist and far right groups and
Racial Hatred Bill
Lisa Macdonald's "Issues" story (GLW 19th May 1995) "What's wrong with the Racial Hatred Bill", is spot on.
Whilst not wanting to get up the nose of a group of people who seem to take great delight in bashing the shit out
By Dave Riley
When I left school at the end of 1966 I had two passions — theatre and politics. But they seemed contrary to one another. While I was able to indulge my dramatic bent at university, my political commitment was much more
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