BRISBANE — Crime waves make good copy. Journalists can spice up a story with charges of gangsterism and thuggery after stopping off at the media liaison section of the Queensland Police Force.
Regardless of the recent
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A special greeting to those readers who are reading 91̳ Weekly for the first time this week — especially to those who bought this copy at university O-Week, or received it on joining the radical youth organisation Resistance. You are
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SYDNEY — Liberal and National Party backbenchers in the state parliament are trying to stop the declaration of 350,000 ha of 11 remaining wilderness areas in NSW, or water them down. These areas were announced for declaration
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Greens announce candidate for FremantlePERTH — At a press conference on February 11, the Greens (WA) announced that Stephen Walker will be their candidate for the by-election on March 12 in the federal seat of
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It took desperate action by 23-year-old David Kang on Australia Day to bring to public attention the plight of some 50 Cambodian asylum seekers behind bars for over four years. Australia is the only Western country with mandatory
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Stephen Harris is an Australian citizen currently facing extradition to Argentina to serve a five-year prison sentence. His case goes to a NSW Magistrate's Court on February 25. In September 1987 Stephen Harris took a short
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Poisoning beautyThe so called "standards" for femininity, beauty and desirability in women, by and large, are dictatorially set by Caucasian men, most of whom the world over are of the sexist and racist persuasion.
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Generation gap? As the backlash outlined by Susan Faludi continues, there has been a rush of articles about the new feminism. Well known — or soon to be well known because they are well publicised by the establishment media and academic world
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ADELAIDE — This week the Magistrate's Court conducts another round of trials from last Easter's Nurrungar peace protest. More than 270 people were arrested and charged with trespass while protesting against the US base in the
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Jenny Craig Kath Tucker's grizzle about Jenny Craig and similar diet institutions (GL #128) fails to take into account the fact that many women wish to lose weight in order to feel better — the fact that they may look better is secondary.
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How difficult is it to be accepted as a refugee in Australia? Gek Buoi Minh, a 15-year-old Cambodian girl scratching out a living in Song Be refugee camp in Vietnam, has waited over five years for her migration application to be
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Marina Carman Population: no simplistic solutions We live in a world in crisis. A world plagued by pollution of air, seas, land, food and drinking water. A world of ozone depletion, deforestation and global warming. It's an international
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Open Learning — The Collapse of Communism — A Triumph for the West? — One for the early riser. A number of historians have declared the "end of ideology"; assessing this claim, the program looks at the role of the US as world cop in a more
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Television, radio and newspapers are filled with the floundering attempts of the "international community" to deal with the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Cease-fires and agreements never last. This is an ethnic feud over irreconcilable
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BRISBANE — Aboriginal organisations have slammed Queensland Premier Wayne Goss's decision to order the rewriting of a draft year 5 social studies source book. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Consultative
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Goss picket at UQBRISBANE — Due to a decline in the effectiveness of the ALP club at the University of Queensland, Premier Wayne Goss will be visiting the St Lucia campus on Wednesday, February 16, as part of a recruiting
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Protesters confront Indonesian ministerMELBOURNE — A picket was organised outside the World Congress Centre on February 8 by Environmental Youth Alliance, the Indonesian solidarity group Aksi and Resistance to highlight
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ADELAIDE — When state parliament convened on February 9, it started to bring home the dramatic changes the new Liberal government intends to make in favour of employers, at the expense of the public and workers. Along
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Ocean dumping slammedHOBART — About 100 people gathered outside federal Labor minister Duncan Kerr's office at lunchtime on February 11 to protest the against latest exemption granted to Pasminco Metals-EZ, which allows
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Stoned Week plannedBRISBANE — The focus of the University of Queensland's O-Week and Recovery Week in 1994 is the decriminalisation of marijuana. This will culminated in the organisation of a Stoned Week, including a
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Protests over Bougainville Around 30 protesters picketed the AMP building, home of the mining giant CRA, in Brisbane on February 10. The protest, organised by the Bougainville Freedom Movement as part of a national day of action, aimed to
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Youth graffiti BRISBANE — A Resistance "Graffiti for Youth Rights" action was held in the city mall on Friday, February 4. The stall and banner graffiti took up issues such as the Liberal candidate for lord mayor's proposed youth curfew in the
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Democrat "We don't have a problem with people coming from other sides. But if the ANC comes here I will order my people to kill them." — Katlehong Inkatha Freedom Party youth leader Jeffrey Sibiya, quoted in the Sunday Times, January 23.
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Multicultural Australia The January 29 by-election in the safe Labor seat of Werriwa, vacated by John Kerin, witnessed the emergence of the latest front group of the xenophobic extreme-right. That Australians Against Further Immigration did
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As the Bosnians in Sarajevo bury their dead from the recent massacre by Serb gunners, NATO has called on the Bosnian army within the besieged city to lay down its heavy weapons along with the Serbs surrounding the city. Both
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Luciana Castelina, a leader of the Italian Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) and a member of the European parliament, spoke with 91̳ Weekly's Kate Shannon about the coming national elections. Castelina will be a speaker at the
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NZ Alliance wins union backingThe Alliance, after a strong showing in New Zealand's November general election, is beginning to win union backing previously reserved for the conservative Labour Party. A round of talks with
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MOSCOW — How democratic is a country in which a person who reveals breaches of an international agreement can be put on trial in a closed court, under secret laws and in violation of the constitution? That is the question
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Boycott over whalingGreenpeace Australia is urging a boycott of Norwegian products because of the Norwegian government's defiance of an international moratorium on whaling established in 1986. In recent months
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By Lamoin Werlein-Jan The December 20, 1989 US invasion of Panama was not about Manuel Noriega's involvement with the drug trade, protecting US lives or restoring democracy. These were only the excuses used to justify Washington's gross
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In the face of escalating protests, the Ramos government of the Philippines was forced to suspend an unpopular oil price rise on February 7. This followed a week of militant protests and the formation of the
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MOSCOW — According to statistics issued by the Russian Federal Employment Service at the end of January, there are now only 835,000 jobless people in the country — barely 1% of the work force. However, statistics can
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Settlements threaten Middle East peace On December 20, three countries voted against the UN General Assembly resolution which expressed support for the Middle East peace process and called for a final settlement under which Israel would withdraw
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"The role of sport in our country has become a priority because it is the first phase of unifying the youth in our country. We see sport as the beginning to implement all of our policies, through the youth and other organs in
Culture
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Art in Australia Imagine SBS TV Fridays at 7.30 p.m. (7 Adelaide) beginning February 18 Reviewed by Jill Hickson Sponsored by the Australia Council of the Arts, this new series on Australian art and culture will combine a range of
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The Mardi Gras Film Event Feb 25 to March 3, at the AFI Cinema, Paddington Presented by Queer Screen in association with Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Previewed by Kath Tucker The Mardi Gras Film Event, being organised in conjunction
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My Mother Said By Xenos Distributed through Larrikin Entertainment Reviewed by Ian Jamieson The release of their second CD marks Xenos as a formidable band in traditional folk circles. Xenos — the name is a Greek word meaning "foreign
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Adelaide Fringe/Festival During the next few weeks Adelaide will be inundated with a variety of cultural forms. Listed here are only a few of many highlights. Aboriginal and Islander Music Festival — Warumpi Band, Mixed Relations, Seven
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Cuba — Talking About Revolution: Conversations with Juan Antonio Blanco By Medea Benjamin Ocean Press, 1993. 105 pp. $14.95 Reviewed by Jill Hickson Described as a reformist, a hard-liner, a radical, an idealist, a pragmatist and a
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Blowpipes and Window Frames Dateline, SBS TV Saturday, February 19, 7 p.m. (6.30 Adelaide) Researched and produced by Matthew Carney Reviewed by Jill Hickson This film, on the devastation in Sarawak caused by the logging of the
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SYDNEY — Songs of Protest, Songs of Struggle is a benefit concert for 91̳ Weekly and Actively Radical TV. It will be held on Saturday, February 19, from 8 p.m. at Burland Community Hall, King Street, Newtown. Following are brief