Loose cannons
The marketplace
"We have a government which is fumbling and lurching its way through the corridors of business. It does not know how the marketplace works." — NSW Liberal leader Peter Collins, on the state Labor government's
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News briefs
Record profit for BHP
NEWCASTLE — Mining and steel production giant BHP is set to reach record profits again this year, announced within days of the confirmation that more jobs are to be slashed in the Hunter area Rod and Bar
Tank Girl
A Rachel Talalay film
Reviewed by Jen Crothers
In the future of Tank Girl, the world is struck by a comet, turning the whole planet into a desert. It hasn't rained in 11 years, and water is power. The Water and Power Company just
By Michelle Armstrong and Tony Iltis
CANBERRA — The French government's decision to resume nuclear testing in Moruroa Atoll has met an angry response here.
A rally on June 18 at the French Embassy attracted 1000 people. The crowd marched
Moving the Mountain
Directed by Michael Apted
Sydney Film Festival
Reviewed by Eva Cheng
The pro-democracy student protests in China in 1989 are the best-documented people's movement, audio-visually, in Chinese history.
This rich
James Baldwin: A Biography
By David Leeming
Henry
Holt & Co, 1995. 442 pp., $26.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
Australian censors, in their own perverse way, have guided many
Australians to good, challenging writers. James Baldwin,
On the box
Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
In a Time of Violence — The second part
Action updates
AGL strike
NEWCASTLE — Employees of the AGL natural gas company in the Hunter region struck from June 22 to 26 in response to company plans to shed 53 of its work force of 163 by June 30.
A redundancy plan offered by
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — The parallels with Russia in 1993 were uncanny. As the economy crashed, the president demanded a speeding-up of free-market reforms as the only solution. And if these reforms were to be implemented, an essential
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