Lonely Planet Six Degrees: Havana — Travel show explores Havana, Cuba from the viewpoint of the people living there. SBS, Friday, September 30, 7.30pm.
Sex 'n' Pop: It Ain't Necessarily So — Hits the gay dance floor and traces the history of
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Doug Lorimer
In a September 19 statement accompanying his latest report to a meeting of the 35-country board of governors of the UN's nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed ElBaradei declared that "Iran
Rohan Pearce
On March 1, 1991, after the defeat of Iraq in the first Gulf War, US President George Bush senior told the American Legislative Exchange Council: "By God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all!" Since George Bush junior
The following is an abridged version of the address given to the 60th UN General Assembly on September 15 by Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's revolutionary socialist president.
This UN does not work. We have to say it. It is the truth... [T]he dream of an
Jim McIlroy
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) employed by Centrelink, the federal government's main social security agency, have voted at workplace meetings around the country to reject management's offer on a new industrial
Jac Taylor, Melbourne
On September 21, Dr Elspeth McInnes, convenor of the National Council of Single Mothers and their Children, criticised the Howard government's changes to its proposed "welfare-to-work" package as still failing for protect
South Australia
The sometimes out-of-control private security industry is being reined in a little in South Australia, with fingerprint and drug tests to be introduced for security personnel. There are about 150,000 private security guards in
Combatting depression
Iggy Kim (Write On, GLW #641) offers up Cuba's continued use of anti-depressants and electro-shock therapy (ECT) to bolster his argument that drugs, used in combination with community-based psychiatric methods, are the best
Tim Gooden
The Howard government's Building Industry Task Force is using the "freedom of association" provisions in the Workplace Relations Act (WRA) to take legal action against the Victorian Labor government. It is trying to prove that the latter
Alex Miller
The Scottish Socialist Party is contesting two parliamentary by-elections to be held on September 29. Its candidates — long-time local activist Ronnie Stevenson, standing in the Scottish Parliament seat of Glasgow Cathcart, and trade
Lourdes Garcia Larque is a solidarity activist and graduate of Latin American studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which has 300,000 students. She will be speaking at the Third National Conference in Solidarity with Latin
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
Sixty workers employed at Australian Envelopes in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Notting Hill — all members of the printing division of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) — have been on
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