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'We need to change the way people think'

By Anne Pavy PERTH — It is not just a matter of getting people into parliament: "We need to change the way people think and view and operate within the world", Stewart Jackson, secretary of the WA Greens, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. The

... and ain't i a woman?: Sisters in suits

Sisters in suits Australia is famous for its femocrats — feminists who work for structures like women's advisory boards, women's units and equal opportunity offices. We have more such pinstriped sisters per head of population than any

Call for Hilton investigation

Call for Hilton investigation "We believe it is necessary to launch a campaign on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Sydney Hilton bombing. On February 13, 1978, three innocent people were horribly murdered and others were mutilated

Wind power increases

Wind power increases European wind turbines, for the first time, exceeded 1 billion kWh in electric power output in 1992. Production within Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands alone reached 1.25 billion kWh. Worldwide wind

An intriguing interview with Fidel

Can Cuba Survive? By Beatriz Pages Ocean Press. 105pp. $14.95 Reviewed by Sean Malloy Can Cuba Survive is an inspiring and magnetic interview with Cuban President Fidel Castro by Beatriz Pages, editor of the Mexican weekly magazine

Summer forest campaign

Summer forest campaign By Natasha Simons HOBART — The slogan "Yes to EIS" (environmental impact statement) was chalked on every corner pavement in Hobart on January 18, as the Wilderness Society launched its "long hot summer" campaign

Loose cannons

Business as usual "It's true I expect controversy. But on the other hand, we have capitalism now. We're in business. This is money." Polish entrepreneur Ryszard Stunzo, who plans to open a restaurant in Gierloz (the site of Hitler's Wolf's Lair)

Waking up to a nig.htmare

Light Sleeper A film by Paul Schrader Reviewed by Mario Giorgetti A student of French film-maker Robert Bresson's work, whose favourite subject was the lone outsider, US writer-director Paul Schrader develops and redefines in Light

Rush to build reactors in central and eastern Europe

Rush to build reactors in central and eastern Europe WASHINGTON — More than twice as much government-backed money from the West has been directed at expanding nuclear power in central and eastern Europe as has been spent on either making

Indebted for an interesting series

The Sharp End ABC TV, 8.30 p.m. Tuesdays Reviewed by Tony Smith During the great depression of the '30s, according to my grandfather, it was common to see families evicted from their homes by the "bailiffs". During the supposedly lesser

Storyteller with a message

Storyteller with a message Body of Glass By Marge Piercy Penguin Books, 1992. 583 pp. $12.95 Reviewed by Steve Painter Marge Piercy's latest is set in a ruined world made largely uninhabitable by the effects of atomic war and the

Politics after the Labor decade

By Peter Boyle It wasn't very long ago that we listened with horror to reports on the so-called "New Zealand experiment". The Australian equivalent could turn out to be worse. Jeff Kennett's "radical" program of labour market deregulation and