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Baucau: another front in East Timor war &&

By John Martinkus and Daniel Pedersen EAST TIMOR — When five shots penetrated the body of the commandant of subdistrict Vermasse as he was on his way to work on July 27, it triggered — by afternoon — a violent and repressive response from

French crackdown in Tahiti

By Norm Dixon Gabriel Tetiarahi, leader of Tahiti's umbrella NGO organisation Hiti Tau, fears that he will be arrested by French colonial authorities when returns to Papeete after a brief visit to Australia. Tetiarahi's fears are well founded.

Janet Sheila Wakefield &&

By Max Watts SYDNEY — Janet Sheila Wakefield, a communist, was born in Patras, Greece, in 1915 and died in Sydney on September 18. Her family moved to New Zealand in 1925. In 1936, Janet came to Australia. Ten years ago, when I first met

Chinese women denied redress for war crimes

By Eva Cheng Seven former sex slaves and other victims of Japanese atrocities in China were recounting their wartime plight to reporters during a press conference in Hepingli Hotel in Beijing on August 7 when the police broke in. The meeting was

Lacking more than a clue

CluelessParamount PicturesWritten and directed by Amy HeckerlingReviewed by Roslyn Moloney "Sex. Clothes. Popularity. Is there a problem here?" This is how 16-year-old Cher (Alicia Silverstone) confronts the world. But the question really at

Parliamentarians protest against nuclear test on Moruroa &&

By Sid Spindler In the early hours of Saturday, September 2, 35 Australian parliamentarians arrived by plane in Tahiti. Most of us substituted a cup of coffee for sleep, and by 9 o'clock we were assembling at the Municipal Offices of the Faaa

Green vote changes face of council &&

By Liz Rene NEWCASTLE The NSW local government elections on September 9 registered a change in voting patterns that elected Green councillors across the state. The most resounding success was in Newcastle, where Greens now hold a quarter of the

Valuable imperfections

ZeldaBy Zelda D'ApranoSpinifex, 1995. 408 pp.Reviewed by Trish Corcoran "Working-class women very rarely write books because of our inability to write at the level required by male established literary standards. Nor are many books written about the

The creation of 'terrorists'

The Cutting Edge: The RaidSBS TelevisionTuesday, October 3, 8.30pm (8 SA)Reviewed by Jenny Long The debate around flag burning, and the implicit questioning of the rights of East Timorese to demonstrate against the Indonesian occupation of their

WA teachers: Still united and fighting

By Anthony Benbow PERTH — More than 8000 teachers, many of them from country schools, attended a mass meeting at Perth Oval on September 21. The huge turnout gave a clear message to the State School Teachers Union leadership: continue the

Near-meltdown at ageing nuclear plant &&

By Duncan Chappie Rather than stop valuable production, Britain's main state-owned nuclear power company risked a meltdown of a gas-cooled nuclear reactor for more than nine hours. Nuclear power is the next industry to be privatised by the

Mt Isa strike over union coverage

By Bill Mason MIM Holdings, Queensland's biggest company, was plunged into a new crisis on September 21 when more than 800 workers at Mt Isa went on strike in the ongoing dispute over union coverage at the company's giant mine there. The 24-hour