By Julia Bale
Amnesty International issued an urgent action demand last week on the case of Irish prisoner Roisin McAliskey. McAliskey, seven months pregnant and in bad health, is being held in a British prison awaiting extradition proceedings by
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By Dave Riley
Satire, to be worthy of its name, generalises, exaggerates and distorts. Because it relies on its immediate impact and addresses topical vices and abuses, satire can rely on persistence in its struggle against hypocrisy, pretence and
Campaign to save the Block heats up
By Chris Spindler and Jennifer Thompson
SYDNEY — The campaign to save Redfern's Aboriginal community has heated up amidst repeated denials by the Aboriginal Housing Company of plans to redevelop Eveleigh
By Norm Dixon
The anti-Mobutu rebellion in eastern Zaire has spread south into the strategic Shaba province — source of much of Zaire's copper, cobalt, diamond and gold wealth — and west towards the central African country's third largest city,
Review by Ben Courtice
More than 20 films and shorts were screened during the four sessions of the Wild Spaces Film Festival in Hobart on February 15 and 16. The films varied in theme and style, covering environmental issues from Canada to Nigeria
Reith's 'compete-or-perish' plan for the public service
By Val Edwards
In November, industrial relations minister Peter Reith issued his paper "Towards a Best Practice Australian Public Service". It sounds like a discussion document, but don't
Life of Riley: Stiff bickies
The Arnott's extortion attempt has hit the innocent hardest: the company, its employees and shareholders. The day the story broke, Arnott's shares fell 25 cents; after only three days 300 casual employees were stood
The WestAn eight-part documentarySBS TV, Sundays 7.30pm (7 in SA) beginning March 2. Review by Allen Myers
If you watch the first episode of The West, I strongly recommend turning off the sound for the first 10 minutes. That way you can enjoy some
'University of the year' to strike
By Helen Jarvis
SYDNEY — National Tertiary Education and Industry Union members at the University of NSW on February 19 voted not to begin teaching at the start of the 1997 academic year, but instead to strike
The People vs Larry FlyntDirected by Milos FormanScreenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry KaraszewskiNational release from February 20 Review by Jonathon Strauss
A movie of a man crucified, figuratively, in the US, or an excuse for an orgy of soft
Every day we are bombarded with news of the "free" market achievements of the newly industrialised countries (NICs) — the "miracle" economies of South-East Asia.
In the less industrialised countries, politicians who kowtow to the dictates of the
Swaziland democracy strikers hold firm
By Norm Dixon
Mass meetings of striking Swaziland workers in the vital sugar and forestry industries voted on February 16 to continue a general strike into its third week. The strikers, organised by the
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