By Sean Healy
In the United States today, 37 million people (8.3 million of them children) are completely without medical insurance. The UN children's agency UNICEF ranks the US 21st among nations on children's health — behind China, India and
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By Steve Rogers
CANBERRA — One hundred and twenty thousand members of the Public Sector Union will be sent ballot papers in the coming week in a national election which is crucial for the union's future. For the first time, the incumbents are
Wu Kui (The Wooden Man's Bride)
Directed by Huang Jianxin
Reviewed by Peter Boyle and Pip Hinman
Sydney Film Festival director Paul Byrnes says that this year's program reflects the fact that Asia is where the action is, filmwise. But if we
The Politics of Pain: Torturers and their Masters
Ronald D. Crelinsten and Alex P. Schmid (ed.)
Leiden: Centre for the Study of Social Conflicts. 1993
Reviewed by Brian Martin
What is there to know about torture, aside from that it's a
Unusual, anyway
"I think there's a unique West Australian style of entrepreneurialism." — Laurie Connell in 1988.
Great something
"I believe I'm in the presence of greatness." — One of a not very large crowd at a New York bookshop where
BARBARA EINHORN is the author of Cinderella Goes to Market, a book on the experiences of women in eastern and central Europe following the collapse of the Stalinist regimes there. She is based at Sussex University, principally in the Women's Studies
Specific measures
$11.6 million over three years to protect the Daintree area, conditional on matching funds from the Queensland government.
$19.4 million over four years for a Comprehensive Regional Assessment Program for forests.
In an upcoming publication, "Reshaping European Education", the European Round Table of industrialists, a highly influential lobby organisation of 45 leading European industrialists, urges a radical change in education policy in European Union member
Ozone conference wants change in forest practices
A major conference of scientists and environmentalists meeting at the University of Victoria in Canada April 27-29 has called for the re-evaluation of current forest practices in light of damage
Ninni
Bangarra Dance Theatre
Enmore Theatre, Sydney until May 22
Reviewed by Kath Gelber
The Bangarra's Dance Theatre's latest production is a colourful, evocative and energetic story told through a combination of narrative, song and
True Stories: Hunger Strike, A Hidden History — In March 1981, republican prisoner Bobby Sands began a hunger strike in Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, seeking political status. He died 62 days later despite demonstrations and public outcry. His was
Police abduct Aboriginal children
BRISBANE — Three Aboriginal children aged between 12 and 14 years say that they were abducted by six police officers in the early hours of May 10. The Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) has complained to the
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