Loose cannons
Appropriate
"It's quite appropriate that we should be prosecuted. If these things occur, we should be prosecuted." — A spokesperson for Sydney Water, which accidentally poured more than 100,000 litres of undiluted
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By Philippa Stanford
The SA State Folk Festival is again being staged by the Folk Federation of SA, from September 29 to October 30 at Victor Harbour.The state's largest community arts festival has thrived in this location and has earned a
By Eva Cheng
Unemployment in China has exploded in recent years, with 170 million people, or 28% of its work force, estimated to be out of jobs. Since the 1949 revolution, the government has accepted the responsibility to provide jobs and
By Jennifer Thompson
Thousands of Kurdish prisoners of war have been on a hunger strike in prisons across Turkey. Hundreds more Kurds are on hunger strikes in cities around the world to support the prisoners — members of the Kurdistan
Women and peace
For the Love of Peace: Women and Global Peace Building
By Kaye Murray
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: 1995. 150 pp.
Reviewed by Connie Frazer.
For anyone curious about WILPF
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.
Movie Matinee: Rosa Luxemburg
By Vivienne Porzsolt
Why has Helen Garner's book, The First Stone, been so applauded by so many with so few feminist credentials? Why was the right-wing Sydney Institute so eager to give her a platform? Why has the debate been shifted from
Cocktail and exhibition night
ADELAIDE — Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party held a very successful cocktail and exhibition night on August 12 to raise funds for 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly.
Featured were the work of Jim Cane,
BHP drafted law, PNG admits
By Norm Dixon
Australian multinational mining giant BHP — the "Big Australian"' — has been exposed as the "Big Fibber". Following a week of smart talking, equivocations, legal mumbo-jumbo and
The stuff that dreams are made of
Movie Dreams
By Rosie Scott
University of Queensland Press, 1995. 152pp
Reviewed by Alex Bainbridge
Movie Dreams is the story of Adan Loney, a young person who finds the world a
Stop Chinese nuclear tests
The testing of a nuclear bomb by the Chinese government on August 17 is a stupid and reactionary step, one which is dangerous to the people of China and of the whole world.
While aggressive imperialist
By Dave Wright
While the movement against French nuclear testing in the Pacific continues to grow in Australia, the people of Tahiti, who are most directly affected, have staged large demonstrations opposing the resumption of testing at
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