As It Happened: USSR
SBS-TV, Thursday, March 17, 8:30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Paul Oboohov
The events in Russia of recent years have led to the growing availability and exposure of never-seen-before archival film footage, and this series
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Les Taylor
MELBOURNE — Les Taylor died from AIDS peacefully at home on March 8. Les, a long-time member of the Democratic Socialist Party (then the Socialist Workers Party), was an activist in the Hospital Employees Federation and Central
That's not rain
By Brandon Astor Jones
"The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it." — Orestes A. Brownson
Unbalancing act
It could be the start of a science fiction story; record floods in Europe, massive forest fires in America and Australia, unheard of drought in the North American prairies (over now), prolonged drought in Australia. Measurable
Comment by Jenny Goldie
I refer to your editorial "Population: no simplistic solutions" of February 16. I was the representative of Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population (AESP) speaking on Triple J recently with Paul Ehrlich.
By Michael Arnold
One of the strongest, most publicised messages from AIDS education campaigns has been that if IV drug users do not have their own clean fits, needles and syringes can be cleaned using the 2*water 2*bleach 2*water method.
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
ASIO
Regular readers will be aware of the running advertisement for Feminism and Socialism: Putting the Pieces Together. What you may not know, however, is that this is the most popular of Â鶹´«Ã½'s ads, based on the mail order response of readers.
BRISBANE — One hundred people attended a public meeting on March 6 organised by the Biala and Wacol support group to express disgust at the state government's slashing of services at the Biala alcohol and drug detoxification centre. Speakers
By Pip Hinman
Thousands of feminists took to the streets around the country on March 12 to mark International Women's Day. The biggest rally, 5000, was held in Sydney, and large numbers of women gathered in other capital cities as well as
Normal relations
"[There is] a full resumption of normal relations. I have not spoken to him since." — Former Liberal leader John Howard, on the "end" of a dispute with current leader John Hewson.
Spoilsport
"The [NSW] Police Commissioner,
Kennett's party votes him 'innocent'
By Karl Miller
Melbourne — Eighteen months ago, Victorians voted the Liberal Party, led by Jeff Kennett, into state government. Labor's disastrous record allowed the Liberals to win merely by claiming
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