WA TLC dithers as attacks mount
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — A motion for a Trades and Labor Council-endorsed day of action involving a stop-work meeting and rally on June 17 was defeated 51 votes to 31 after a sharp debate at the TLC
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US gay activist harassed
US gay rights activists say that police and corporate harassment continues of participants in the historic April 25 March on Washington for Lesbian/Gay/Bi Rights.
On the day before the march, gay rights activist
Sexual harassment: legal in Tasmania?
By Joy McEntee
HOBART — Women are having their rage refurbished daily by the Mercury newspaper. Every edition carries a peep show style update on the case brought against Hobart City Council by a
By Jo Mountwinter
Dave Riley's article on food irradiation (GLW, March 17) issue was basically correct, though it overstated the effectiveness of food irradiation.
In fact, the process kills only some of the bugs, and slows down the
Against Therapy
By Jeffrey Masson
London: Fontana. 1990
Final Analysis
By Jeffrey Masson
London: Fontana. 1992
Reviewed by Chris Slee
Jeffrey Masson is a former psychoanalyst who began to question the theory and practice. He was
Orlando
Directed and written by Sally Potter
Based on Virginia Woolf's novel
Starring Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, John Wood, Lothaire Bluteau, Charlotte Valandrey, Quentin Crisp
Reviewed by Ulrike Erhardt
This is the most interesting
By Peter Boyle
Since the Australian High Court delivered its judgement in Eddie Mabo & Others vs the State of Queensland nearly a year ago, opinions on the meaning of this decision have multiplied. One sort of opinion, however, has had a
Strike-wave in eastern Europe
By Frank Noakes
On the eve of the settlement of a two-week strike by east Germany's engineering union, Romanian and Polish workers are walking out. Thirty thousand Romanian steelworkers began strike action on
Trovador
Africando
Stern's through Sandstock
Celebration — The Best of Osibisa
AIM Records through Larrikin
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
The development of modern African music is fascinating and complex. Indigenous African music
By Jana D.K. in Jakarta
and Mitchell Hamilton in Sydney
East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Indonesian court in Dili on May 21. The three judges found him guilty of separatism, rebellion,
The rich and their apologists
Business Review Weekly last week published its list of the richest 200 people in Australia, pleased to announce that their combined fortunes have increased in the past 12 months by 10.9%, to $21.3 billion.
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Among many of Russia's self-proclaimed democrats, the usual rhetoric of the need to defend "democracy" against "communist revanchism" was suddenly turned off in mid-May. In its place appeared an embarrassed,
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