Tongan democrats seek support
Leading Tongan democracy activist Akilisi Pohiva has indicated that the pro-democracy movement is changing its strategy.
Pohiva said on April 28 that, instead of pushing for more democracy solely from within
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Rape Crisis Centre to close
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — Workers at the Rape Crisis Centre learned of its end in a blunt fax from the minister for family and community services, Martin Evans, on May 12. The centre will be amalgamated
Gay man murdered in Adelaide
By Alison Dellit
ADELAIDE — A homosexual man was murdered here last week, exactly 21 years after the infamous drowning of Dr George Duncan.
Duncan, a gay professor at Adelaide University, was bashed and
Taking up the Breast Cancer Challenge — A special presentation, conducted in three languages, aims to inform and educate women from all ethnic backgrounds about a cancer that kills six women a day in Australia. Between 70,000 and 80,000 women
The North East Forest Alliance is calling for a full investigation into the operations of the NSW north coast woodchipping company, Sawmillers Exports Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Boral Timbers P/L, following the revelation that the company has
By Norm Dixon
A firm date for South Africa's first non-racial general election is to be set by June 3. After a week of discussions beginning on April 30, representatives of South Africa's key 26 political organisations agreed that a
Apartheid
Two part special on SBS Television screening Sunday, May 23, and May 30, 8.30 p.m. (8 p.m. Adelaide)
Previewed by Norm Dixon
This French-produced two-hour documentary starkly recounts the evolution of one of this century's most
The Best of Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
Dolphin through BMG
Rhythm of Healing
West Nkosi
Earthworks/Virgin through Larrikin Records
Favourites
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Dolphin through BMG
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
By Jonathan Strauss
May 3
Nanterres University in Paris was closed by its administration to stop a second day of "anti-imperialist study". In the courtyard of the Sorbonne, the university in central Paris, 500 left-wing students rallied
Anti-union laws retained
Fiji's finance minister, Paul Manueli, says the country's controversial labour reforms will not be revoked. The laws, introduced by the previous interim government in 1991, severely curtail trade union rights.
Nurses impose bans
By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — Nurses at Western General have imposed bans on elective admissions and internal transfer of patients due to an increasing strain on midwifery staffing levels.
The closure of the midwifery
By Helen Jarvis
With barely a week left before the Cambodian elections (scheduled for May 23 to 27), the Khmer Rouge are escalating their acts of terror in an attempt to disrupt the polls — if possible to have them cancelled or at least to
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