The Brisbane Home Front, 1939-1945
Exhibition, Brisbane City Hall
Seven days per week until August 20
Reviewed by Dave Riley
After a life in the shadow of my parents' memories of "the War" (as though there have been no others since), the
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Campaign to stop the Scarborough tunnel
By Sarah Harris
WOLLONGONG — Fifty people at a meeting called by the Wombara Preservation Group (WPG) in Scarborough on May 28 decided to continue the struggle to stop the NSW State Rail Authority
Nice effort, but why?
People: Hard Hitting Women
SBS TV
Friday, June 9, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
"People enjoy seeing the excitement of a fight" in any sport, claim the organisers of the first women's British boxing championships. Those who
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Simon de Faux, a Victorian nurse sent to East Timor as a volunteer for the Catholic Church, was warned by the Australian government not to go public with his first-hand experiences of human rights abuses in East
Unionists, environmentalists form coalition
By Lisa Macdonald
On June 5, World Environment Day, the Building Division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Conservation Council of SA (CCSA) formalised links
The Cutting Edge: Hostage of Time
SBS, Tuesday, June 20, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson
This documentary, made in Lebanon in 1994, traces the experience of a young doctor, Leila, who returns with her eight-month-old son to
By Lisa Macdonald
The arrival of 18 East Timorese boat people in Darwin on May 30 has created a major headache for the ALP federal government.
Several thousand East Timorese have fled to Australia by various means since the brutal invasion
By Pip Hinman
"Tougher punishment for serious and juvenile crime will not solve the problem of crime in our community", said Professor Ross Homel at the Coalition for Crime Prevention's campaign launch in Brisbane on May 18.
Homel, from
Win for Maritime Union
By Jane Kelly
FREMANTLE — The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) won a victory on June 2 against the Western Australian government and anti-union contractor Len Buckeridge, with the Stateships vessel, the Sina, was
By Mireya Castaneda
The only thing missing was the confession of the criminal. And now it's here. The German magazine Stern has published extracts of the unedited Memoirs of Captain Waldemar Pabst, the man who organised the arrest and murder of
Anzac Day
By Karl-Erik Paasonen
I've seen the diggers marching under flapping flags
Flanked by police on repression-trained nags
And when I think of what it means my jaw just sags
And I want to march on Anzac Day
Cos I've done
By Jason Wehling
Since the last US election, the political left has been sent reeling. We have been told that this victory spells a new revolution, a revolution for the right. Interestingly, a Rand Corporation researcher, David Ronfeldt, argues
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