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Alice is Wonderland

BY AMANDA LEAHY ALICE SPRINGS — The "Alice in Wonderland" gay and lesbian festival was held here, March 10-17. Activities included a dance, a film festival, a pool night, a cabaret and a day at the races. In response, there were numerous

Bob Brown: M1 is an 'essential protest'

HOBART — On February 24, Greens Senator BOB BROWN endorsed the May 1 (M1) protests against corporate tyranny. The protests will be held around Australia and target the Australian Stock Exchange. "M1 is a way of expressing the need for us to close

Guerrilla Girls: coming to a cinema near you

BY ZANNY BEGG The Guerrilla Girls were formed in 1985 after the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a blockbuster exhibition of 169 of the world's "most significant contemporary artists". All the artists whose work was on display were white, and

Capturing the feel of a new movement

S11 DocoWritten, produced and directed by Charlie Hill-Smith, Cindy Elliot & Pat Stirling$8Order a copy by email at <charlie@cobweb.com.au> StruggleKineticDistributed by MGM Records BY SEAN HEALY I've spent most of the last six months

and ain't i a woman?: Pink tests for girls, blue tests for boys?

Imagine you are sitting your year 12 exam. Girls sit at the tables with pink-coloured test papers, while boys sit at the tables with the blue test papers. It may sound ridiculous, but this is exactly what is being proposed by the president of the

Mapoon residents return after 37 years' exile

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Some 37 years after they were forced from their homes at gunpoint by police acting on the orders of the Queensland National Party government, residents of the far-north Aboriginal settlement of Mapoon have achieved an

M1 Protesters tour corporate scumbags

BY DANNY FAIRFAX SYDNEY — After assembling in Hyde Park on March 17, 300 protesters set off on a tour of this city's most notorious corporate scumbags. The tour was organised as part of the build-up toward the May 1 blockade of the Australian

Reactor plans hits another hurdle

BY JIM GREEN The federal government's plan to build a new nuclear research reactor in the southern Sydney suburb of Lucas Heights hit another hurdle on March 15 when a French court banned a ship from unloading 360 spent fuel rods from the existing

ZIMBABWE: 'Only a new revolution will dislodge Mugabe'

BY DALE T. McKINLEY HARARE — For a man who might soon find himself facing the life-threatening wrath of a former comrade turned despotic head of state, Dzinashe Machingura shows amazingly little concern. Maybe that's because Machingura is better

Refugee activist detained in Greece

MELBOURNE — Feminist and socialist activist SURMA HAMID, from the Committee in Defence of Iraqi Women's Rights, has been active in the campaign to close Australia's immigration detention centres. In February, she was detained by Greek immigration

CHINA: Rising corruption challenges CP's legitimacy

BY EVA CHENG Public anger against escalating corruption, smuggling, tax evasion, fee extortions and other forms abuses of power by Communist Party officials found expression among the delegates in the traditionally uncontroversial annual sessions

M1 club censored at Tas Uni

BY SARAH CLEARY HOBART — Despite much interest in the planned M1 action from students, the University of Tasmania's clubs and societies council voted on March 12 to deny an application to affiliate from the campus' M1 Alliance group. While the