New magazine launched Story and photograph by Norm Dixon SYDNEY — One hundred people squeezed into the back bar of Sydney's Paragon Hotel for the launch of the monthly Modern Times, the newest addition to Australia's alternative media, on
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By Norm Dixon A senior Filipino church leader, Bishop Gaudencio Rosales of Malaybalay diocese in Bukidnon, Mindanao, has called for a complete ban on logging in the Philippines. Describing the situation in the country as "critical", he has
Action updates ADELAIDE — One hundred Flinders University students protested the proposed replacement of Austudy with a student loan scheme here on February 28. The demonstration coincided with the opening of a building by federal minister of
By Bill Hannon ADELAIDE — Premier John Bannon's minority ALP government may be forced to an early election by the resignation from the party of one MP and the threatened resignation of another. Labor emerged from the last state election
Thousands of women around the country celebrated International Women's Day on March 7-8. About 5000 marched in Sydney, reports Tracy Sorensen. Themes included the right to choose abortion, opposition to the closure of Royal Women's Hospital,
By Nigel D'Souza "Lock them up and throw away the key" is the logic of the new legislation on young offenders in Western Australia. It is likely to increase greatly the number of young Aborigines in prison. There is a process of
Campaign to save D'Entrecasteaux park By Miles Hitchcock PERTH — Project Sandcastle — the campaign to prevent exploration of D'Entrecasteaux National Park for mineral sands — has begun in earnest. In January WA environment minister Bob
By Craig Cormick More than one-third of the world's population depends on rice to sustain life. Yet the world is only just able to produce enough rice to feed these estimated 1.75 billion people. The rice-consuming population is growing each
Cannibalism just for laughs Delicatessen Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro and Gilles Adrien Starring Julie Clapet, Dominique Pinon and Jean-Claude Dreyfuss Reviewed by Ulrike Erhardt
October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan By Gary Sick Times Books, Random House, 1991. 278 pp. US$23 Reviewed by Mark Delmege In 1980, the Reagan-Bush campaign team conspired with Israel and Iran against
Photographs by Lisa Iley SYDNEY — A record crowd of up to 40 000 people jammed the route along Oxford Street in inner city Darlinghurst on the night of February 29to watch the 1992 Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The
By Leslie Warne WOLLONGONG — "Macedonia has a long and proud history and has been instrumental in the development of European culture, yet Greeks say we don't exist. I exist, I am here, I am flesh and blood", says Kiril Jonovski of the
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