The Demidenko FileJohn Jost, Gianna Totaro, Christine Tyshing, (eds)Penguin, 1996, 300 pp., $14.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Helen Darville's prize-winning novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, is an anti-Semitic apology for the Holocaust. Yet
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Right credentials "He has shown more than most politicians a good understanding of how business works and would certainly have most of the credentials that a board would look for." — A representative of an "executive search" company on the further
By Jorge Jorquera PERTH — The West Australian's editorial on February 29 epitomised the media's efforts throughout the federal election campaign to direct protest votes to the Democrats rather than the WA Greens. It argued that the "Australian
By Susan Price MELBOURNE — Hoping to capitalise on the Howard Liberal/National Coalition victory and the spin-off from the Grand Prix, Premier Jeff Kennett has called a snap state poll for March 30. The Democratic Socialists are all geared up with
AIDS: Is the Cuban strategy working? By Karen Wald [This article is a response to a letter in GLW #215 from Ken Davis, criticising an article by Karen Wald in issue 214.] I wish I had time to answer individually and promptly all the people, like Ken
Palimpsest: A MemoirBy Gore VidalAndre Deutsch: 435 pp.Reviewed by Dave Riley On the final page of this book, Gore Vidal informs us that the actor Paul Newman has just rung and proposes dinner with the Clintons. Why not? "Since no one else is talking
By Peter Montague In 1978, a small group of biologists studying the Elevenmile Creek in Escandia County, Florida, were "startled" to find a population of tiny mosquitofish that all appeared to be males, even though some were pregnant and were bearing
On February 26, Cuban Television interviewed JUAN PABLO ROQUE, a pilot from the anti-Cuban US group Brothers to the Rescue. The following transcript of the interview was translated by MERRI ANSARA. Question: In the last few hours the Cuban Foreign
By Phil Hearse LONDON — The February 15 publication of the report into the "arms for Iraq" scandal revealed what everyone already knew. In defiance of UN guidelines, Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s, and then John Major's in the 1990s,
Ballot Measure 9ABC TVWednesday, March 20, 8.30pm (8 in SA)Reviewed by Jen Crothers Coming two weeks after the ABC's coverage of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Ballot Measure 9 is a reminder that the fight for equal rights is yet to be won.
By Alex Bainbridge NEWCASTLE — CRA subsidiary, Novacoal, rejected an offer on March 7 by miners' union, CFMEU, to guarantee its profits to the tune of $250,000. The Vickery mine near Gunnedah has struck for almost seven months over compulsory 12
By Nikki Ulasowski WOLLONGONG — Fifty women attended the year's first women's collective meeting at Wollongong University. The meeting discussed ideas of what the collective should be and what campaigns should be organised. Ideas flowed, such as
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