Cognac for some, Claytons for others
Porsche sales are up: evidence, surely, of the the much eulogised economic recovery. Good news too on profit margins: they are forecast to rise 20% this year. And by year's end unemployment is expected to ...
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Women-only facilities
In recent years we've heard claims by men that facilities for the use of women only are discriminatory against men, and therefore should be stopped.
In 1990 a senior officer in the Commonwealth Department of Health, Dr
The Boys in the Band
Directed by Kevin Jackson
New Theatre, Newtown, until March 19. $16/11
Reviewed by Tom Flanagan
The Boys in the Band is a play dealing with gay issues that dates from the pre-Stonewall era. First performed in New York
Adelaide
By Melanie Sjoberg
Nineteen waterside workers at Port Adelaide were sacked on March 17 after refusing to work "double header shifts" in protest over the sacking of 55 workers in Sydney.
Daryl Grey, South Australian branch
What to do on a Saturday night in any major city in Australia? You could always sit in front of the TV and watch the winter Olympics. Perhaps a video is more your style. Anything to avoid mixing it with the crowds at the local pub band night.
By Gyorgy Scrinis and Peter Lyssiotis
When the Compact Disc first emerged in the 1980s, it participated in the undermining of one of our most long-held assumptions. With the C.D., the whole distinction between Side A and Side B of the old vinyl
By Malik Miah and Rich Lesnik
By mid-year the largest airline in the country, United Airlines, could be "controlled" by its union employees. Leaders of the machinists' and pilots' unions say an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) is the best
Dick Nichols
Solidarity with the Sydney wharfies!
With the intervention of industrial relations and transport minister Laurie Brereton into the Sydney wharf dispute, the grounds are being laid for an outcome that would not only make it very
By Peter Montague
The United States is losing its war on cancer, according to a long article in the January 1994 Scientific American. The basic measure of success or failure — the age-adjusted cancer death rate — continues to climb slowly
Today Hanoi, tomorrow Havana?
By Pip Hinman
According to the February 17 San Francisco Chronicle, many US businesses are keen to open trade relations with Havana. The dollars-and-cents argument is gaining some momentum.
In early
By Frank Enright
Speaking on Radio New Zealand's Morning Report program on February 15, Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Paias Wingti turned truth on its head.
"Paias Wingti claimed that there was no blockade of Bougainville, that PNG troops
By Frank Enright
"'All these years we've given our kids everything they've wanted. All of a sudden we felt like an insect that was going to get walked on — he hit the bottle. We fought, the kids got upset, I walked out with a black eye.' —
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