Ready or Not: Stories of Young Adult SexualityEdited by Mark McLeodRandom House, 1996308pp., $14.95Reviewed by Jen Crothers Being a young adult is never easy. There are the inevitable conflicts with "old adults" about school, work, drugs and
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"If 14% of Russians trusted [Alexander] Lebed, we may consider he has passed the exam giving him the right to work professionally in big politics." — Russian President Boris Yeltsin on the defeated presidential candidate
KATY TYRRELL, a member of British Militant Labour and leader in UNISON, the biggest trade union in Europe, visited Australia in May. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's LISA MACDONALD interviewed her in Sydney. Question: What will the election of a Blair-led Labour
The Pol Pot regime: race, power, and genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79By Ben KiernanNew Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 477 pp., $63 (hb)Reviewed by Helen Jarvis As rumours circulate once again about the death of Pol Pot, the
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — With shouts of "Sack the government" and "We'll fight to the end", more than 1200 angry people packed into St George Leagues Club in Kogarah in Sydney's west on June 27 to protest against the ALP state government's
The Life of GalileoBy Bertolt BrechtIn a new translation by David HareDirected by Richard WherrettWith John Howard as GalileoSydney Theatre CompanyOpera House, Sydney until July 20Reviewed by Allen Myers This new production of Brecht's Galileo has
Regular readers of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly will have noticed one or two photos in every issue taken by Ken Bansgrove. Ken is one of the many supporters of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳.
A keen photographer, Ken attends many of the progressive events and demonstrations in
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 4-7pm.
Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
By Alana Kerr
The proposals in the National Commission of Audit that Commonwealth funding of higher education be replaced by a system of "scholarships", student fees and loans sounds very familiar to those who campaigned against the Coalition's
By Mairi Petersen
SHELLHARBOUR — Since 1983, the right-wing ALP-controlled Shellharbour Council has been determined to build a marina at Shellharbour Beach, about 20 km south of Wollongong. Despite the conflict of such a scheme with stated ALP
By Amrita Baumann
A young woman lies dead on a flattened bed of grass, dressed in only a flimsy, open under skirt. Her ankles and knees are bruised, as if from being held. "White, female, age 17, death by strangulation", reads the caption in the
By Doug Lorimer
The Port Arthur massacre and the decision by the May 10 meeting of state police ministers to endorse Prime Minister John Howard's proposals to ban the possession by civilians of automatic and semi-automatic firearms and establish a
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