By Nick Johnson
PHNOM PENH — The decision by the Khmer Rouge leadership to close its headquarters and move out of this capital in mid-April is a further indication that the terrorist organisation will do everything possible to prevent the
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Nuclear ships
Protests at Nurrungar during Easter drew attention to the ongoing struggle against US bases and nuclear weapons. Another danger is presented by the visits of nuclear vessels.
Local medical staff in Darwin were recently
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Anger has exploded against the major banks in the past two weeks here as the Australian Bankers Association director Allan Cullen called for farmers to leave the land now or face eviction later on.
The
Adelaide ambushed in local elections
By Penny Saunders
ADELAIDE — Residents go to the polls again on May 1, this time to elect local government representatives. Adelaide's only professional street theatre company, Ambush Street Theatre
By Gyorgy Scrinis
In his review (GLW, March 31) of an SBS documentary on the "Macedonian issue", Michael Karadjis once again uncritically expresses a "Slav-Macedonian" nationalist position and a fairly naive understanding of the construction
By Allen Myers
Australian government funds for "human rights" activities in Cambodia are providing direct support to the political project of a right-wing Chilean Australian who is an "honorary member" of a Khmer Rouge front.
As Green
Kevin Gilbert, Aboriginal artist, poet, playwright and activist, died on April 1, in Canberra, after a long battle with emphysema. Kevin's daughter, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, prepared the following tribute to her father, in poetry and prose.
Kevin
-2>MELBOURNE — The Hazardous Materials Action Group (HAZMAG) is seeking help in raising funds to send two of its activists to the national convention of the United States Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, to be held in Virginia May 15-17. The
By Ignatius Kim
SYDNEY — In marked contrast to the country's "leaders", who failed to notice the environmental crisis during the recent federal election, concern is alive and well among young people.
Demanding environmental justice for
The Crying Game
Directed by Neil Jordan
Reviewed by Catherine Brown and Frank Noakes
Reihana Mohideen's favourable review of the The Crying Game (GLW #093) asks whether Jordan's film does a disservice to the Irish struggle in his
By Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — In Premier Jeff Kennett's April 6 mini-budget, state education funding was cut by a further $244 million (6.4%). This follows an $86 million cut, closure of 55 schools and sacking of all school cleaners, after
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Russian officials have confirmed that plutonium salts were among the radioactive materials blasted into the atmosphere when a nuclear fuel reprocessing installation in western Siberia exploded on April 6. Although
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