Qld police slammed on Operation Trident
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The controversial Operation Trident car-stealing scam was poorly conceived, incompetently executed and tainted from beginning to end, according to the Carter report
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Power and Money
By Ernest Mandel
London: Verso. 251 pp. $34.95
Reviewed by Jason Cheng
Readers familiar with Ernest Mandel's incisive and readable work will not be disappointed by Power and Money, in which he presents a Marxist theory
ANC condemn UNITA
By Frank Noakes
JOHANNESBURG — The African National Congress national executive has launched a national campaign of solidarity and support for Angola, and is calling on the international community to take all
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — "What has occurred has been an attempt to concentrate power fully in the hands of the Soviets, to return the Communist nomenklatura to the levers of government, and to seize back the democratic conquests of August
Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison
By Sylvia Porter
BRISBANE — Twenty-five people picketed the Brisbane Women's Prison on March 20, protesting against the imprisonment of women for offences related to domestic violence.
The action
Hollywood backlash
Scent of a Woman
Directed by Martin Brest
Written by Bo Goldman
With Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell
Greater Union
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
I was prejudiced about this film before I even saw it because of
By Catherine Brown
Last year the Italian government announced plans for extensive privatisation of government-owned industry. Now, the prime targets for privatisation are in the thick of a massive corruption scandal. All major state companies
When Paul Keating thanked the "true believers" in Labor for re-electing his government on March 13, he was met with a wild ovation from the loyal crowd at the Bankstown Leagues Club. But PETER BOYLE asks: what is the worth of his promise to
Secret radioactive dumping in Pacific
WASHINGTON — Reports from the European press that the Soviet Navy secretly dumped nuclear reactors and radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan indicate a more damaging nuclear legacy of the Cold War
By Norm Dixon
The United States government is "a major and flagrant human rights violator" which is "perpetrating terror on its own citizens" through its frequent use of the death penalty, Rick Halperin, chairperson of Amnesty International
One False Move
Directed by Carl Franklin
Written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson
With Bill Paxton and Lynda Williams
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
This is a powerful movie from a new African American director, Carl Franklin. It's
By Karen Fredericks
The planned launch of War of the Sexes, a book on how to find and marry a Filipina woman, was thwarted by the angry response of Filipina women in Perth last month. The author of the book, Kenneth Morgan, was inundated with
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