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Dismantling the Bomb The Cutting Edge SBS, Tuesday, July 25, 8.30pm (8 in SA) Previewed by Lisa Macdonald "From day one, when we first produced plutonium in this country, we never had an option for its disposal. The notion always was that
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm. Movie Matinee: Stalin's Football (1991) — Based on
An open letter By Brandon Astor Jones Liberation is a dialectical movement ... women's liberation in the revolution is inseparable from the liberation of [men]. — Angela Davis. Your letter arrived yesterday. Thank you. I am glad to
Obstacle Race: Aborigines in Sport By Colin Tatz UNSW Press, 1995. 408 pp., $39.95 (hb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon If sport is a "litmus test" for racism in Australia, as Colin Tatz argues in his new book, the results are pretty damning.
By Afrodity Giannakis SYDNEY — Teachers at the Adult Migrant English Service (AMES) in Auburn and Parramatta are campaigning to stop a threatened closure of English for migrants classes at Auburn. AMES is administered by the state
By Anthony Brown The resumption of French nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific has once again drawn public attention to the issue of Australian uranium exports to France. Although the federal government announced that it had placed
Sydney Up to 40,000 people rallied, marched and picketed here on Bastille Day, July 14, to condemn the proposed French nuclear testing in the Pacific, write Amy Phillips and Chris Spindler. A day-long picket was held at the French
Mapplethorpe exhibition in Perth Robert Mapplethorpe Retrospective WA Art Gallery until August 6 Reviewed by Leon Harrison Robert Mapplethorpe, a famous and controversial gay US photographer, died in 1989 leaving a legacy in his mainly
South Africa grapples with apartheid's environmental legacy By Eddie Koch JOHANNESBURG — Rainbows have become emblematic of the Republic of South Africa's shift from apartheid to non-racial democracy. Since Nelson Mandela used references
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — The typical Russian murder: the door of a Jeep Grand Cherokee swings open, cartridge-cases from an assault rifle spray onto the pavement, and a strongly built, crew-cut young man in a strawberry-coloured jacket
Mina Tannenbaum Directed by Martine Dugowson Starring Romane Bohringer and Elsa Zylberstein Opens in late July at the Pitt Centre, Sydney Reviewed by Pip Hinman This story of the friendship between two girls, Mina and Ethel, who both
By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — The result of the Queensland state election hung in the balance on July 16, following a huge swing against Labor. The swing of 5.5% statewide shocked observers, who had generally predicted a moderate protest vote