Adelaide Festival 1994 — Two Worlds' Music — From Japan, this is the first half of a concert recorded on March 8 and features the magical sound of the sho, a 17-pipe mouth organ played by Mayumi Miyata. ABC Fine Music, Wednesday and Thursday,
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Sinn Fein's Ard Fheis (annual conference) was held in Dublin on February 26-27. Media attention focused on the party's response to a joint statement from the British and Irish prime ministers last December, known as the Downing Street Declaration.
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John Ross is an investigative journalist based in San Francisco. He is the author of a report titled "Smoking Gun? Tom Gerard, Death Squads and the Banality of Evil", on the activities of former CIA employee Tom Gerard in Central America and the
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The number of women in NSW prisons has increased from 133 in 1982 to 362 in 1993. Even though there has been a steady increase in the number of women imprisoned, they will remain a minority group within the
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ADELAIDE — A petition opposing the federal government proposal to increase the pension eligibility age for women to 65 has received an enthusiastic response here over the last few weeks. A national campaign has been launched by the Combined
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[Last May, Prime Minister Keating commissioned the Committee on Employment Opportunities to produce a discussion paper on "Restoring Full Employment". Made up of top-level officials and academics, the committee produced its Green Paper in December.
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[This is the edited text of a speech given to the February 26 Hobart rally against ocean dumping of Jarosite wastes by Pasminco Metals-EZ.] On hot days, I often think about going for a swim. I go down to the beach, but I
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US left Having friends in the U.S.A. with roughly the same politics as myself has meant that we regularly swap information about local and international events. The latest news concerning Cuba, El Salvador and Guatemala might be of interest
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A lively discussion is taking place in the republican movement on how to respond to the Downing Street Declaration. Reproduced here are comments from some respected republicans. Fr. Des Wilson, a Catholic priest active in the republican
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With his latest Looking Out column, Brandon Astor Jones appended a small note. It requested that his subscription to 91̳ Weekly be sent care of his attorney in future. It seems that Jones' column of February 2, entitled "The keepers and
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After 14 years, the landmark Jobs for Women campaign against BHP has formally drawn to a close. Each of the more than 700 women who filed sex discrimination claims against the company for its employment policies of the 1970s and '80s has received
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When the Australian women's cricket team travelled to New Zealand recently to compete in an international event, the only reason we got to hear about it was because a cricketer left out of the one-day team claimed that she had
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Positive women By March 1993, 721 women had been reported in Australia as diagnosed with HIV infection. This represented 4% of reported diagnoses in Australia. Yet more than a decade into the epidemic, women with HIV remain under-studied,
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Scenes from the Invasion Day rally in Meanjin/Brisbane
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Students at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean, occupied the office of the chief executive at the Kingswood campus on March 4. They were protesting against a new parking policy under which students, staff and visitors are required to pay a fee
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MELBOURNE — Recent cuts to the Victorian ambulance service has cost lives, according to the Ambulance Employees Association. Within one week there were three "avoidable" deaths of people in their 20s and 30s. Vince
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CANBERRA: A debate on the proposed amalgamation between the Public Sector Union (PSU) and the State Public Service Federation provided a lively focus for the first meeting of the ACT branch conference since the PSU Challenge
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Supermarket's cheaper "The idea that if you want a dentist or a doctor, you should scurry around to find the cheapest one, is quite inappropriate in a professional sense. The professional relationship is something quite different to buying goods at
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BRISBANE — Candidates for the Central Ward in this year's Brisbane City Council election debated local issues at a public meeting organised by the Red Hill/Paddington Residents Group here on February 27. Greens
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Qld students lose free transportBRISBANE — Public meetings were held last week in a number of schools over the state Labor government cutting access to free public transport for students travelling to school. The
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A large protest movement has sprung up in Tasmania in response to last month's extension of the permit allowing Pasminco Metals-EZ to continue dumping toxic waste into the ocean. Actions so far have included an angry march and rally
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MELBOURNE — Some 600 people rallied in front of the Brunswick Town Hall on March 5 to protest against racism and fascism. In recent months the heavily multicultural inner-city suburb has experienced instances of neo-nazi racist
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"The policy of detaining people seeking refugee asylum in this country harms those detained and cannot be justified", said Greens (WA) Senator Christabel Chamarette as she tabled her dissenting report on the Joint Standing
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CANBERRA — In what was dubbed by its leaders a "high risk strategy", coal miners from as far afield as Collinsville and Bowen in central Queensland marched on Parliament House on March 1 in protest at threatened job losses. The
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Support for Greens PERTH — "We are urging unions to lend their weight and support to the Greens in the by-elections", Perth Democratic Socialist Party secretary Stephen Robson told 91̳ Weekly. The by-election for the federal seat
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24-hour rail strikeMELBOURNE — Suburban rail guards struck for 24 hours on March 3. A well-attended mass meeting the previous day voted unanimously for industrial action due to the lack of consultation in the
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'Put people first', say socialist candidatesBRISBANE — "The Brisbane City Council, under the Soorley administration, has put the needs of private developers before people in our inner cities", Ana Kailis, Democratic
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Israel responsible for massacre Barukh Goldstein walked into the Tomb of the Patriarchs mosque in Hebron on February 25 and mercilessly gunned down 54 worshippers, young and old alike. In doing so, Goldstein exposed not only his own burning
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A high-spirited group of young South Africans, mostly in their teens, had spent the day campaigning in the southern Natal village of Mahehle. Keen to participate in South Africa's first democratic election, they had put up many ANC
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The four year battle over the St Patrick's Day parade has cost New Yorkers more than a few headaches and traffic tie-ups — now it will also cost them $150,000 in a settlement with the parade's sponsor, the Ancient Order of
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Death of a Nation, the new film on East Timor narrated by Australian journalist JOHN PILGER, has had a major international impact — and has been attacked by the Australian government even before it has been shown here. Pilger, in London, was
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MOSCOW — In the final days of 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov resigned as Russian President Boris Yeltsin's personal adviser on environmental matters. "I have resigned of my own will", the famed biologist told the paper
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JOHANNESBURG — The terrible prospect of a blood-soaked election campaign in the Natal/KwaZulu region may have receded a little following a meeting in Durban between African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Inkatha
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MEXICO CITY — The political violence in El Salvador intensified on February 24 with an attempt on the life of ex-Comandante Nidia Diaz. Diaz is a member of the national leadership of the FMLN (Farabundo
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Karen Lee Wald HAVANA — One of the pioneers in AIDS education/prevention in Cuba, Raul Llanos Lima, died in Havana on February 20 of cardiac arrest. He was 39 years old. He had tested positive for HIV in 1986 and had lived and worked in Cuba's
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JOHANNESBURG — Thor Chemicals is again at the centre of a major controversy, this time involving the import into South Africa of toxic wastes. Thor Chemicals is a British-owned company notorious for its callous treatment of black
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JOHANNESBURG — Throughout the negotiations process since 1990, the African National Congress has pushed hard for the post-apartheid constitution to proclaim South Africa a non-sexist state. That this was incorporated into the
Culture
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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,/ None but ourselves can free our minds", sang Bob Marley. Reggae is changing and adapting to the times. The roots of calypso and reggae reach back into slavery, where social criticism and
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Blonde AmbitionBefore You Were Blonde, Adelaide's wild, jean-clad choir, launched Blonde Ambition, its first three-track CD, at the Fringe on February 18 to an unusually sedate but appreciative audience. The vibrant
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Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women's Movements in East Central Europe By Barbara Einhorn Verso, 1993. Australian distributors Allen and Unwin 280 pp. $34.95 (pb) Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen "I think our East European
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Trauma and Recovery By Judith Lewis Herman Basic Books 1992 Reviewed by Chris Slee This book deals with the causes and consequences of psychological trauma, and how survivors can be helped to recover. Judith Herman is both a
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The Morning After: Sex, Fear, Feminism By Kate Roiphe Hamish Hamilton, 1993. 180 pp. $18.95 (pb) Reviewed by Zanny Begg From the ivory towers of Princeton, Kate Roiphe has let loose a tirade against the women's movement. Her book The
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Raining Stones Directed by Ken Loach Screenplay by Jim Allen Dendy Cinema, Sydney, from March 17 Reviewed by Claudine Holt Raining Stones is a funny and humane film portraying the life of one working-class family in Lancaster. It neither
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ADELAIDE — Trying to pack nearly 300 women into the Irish Hall on Friday, February 18, delayed the start of the second birthday celebrations of Women Performing, a regular cultural event on the alternative scene. It was
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In the Name of the Father Directed by Jim Sheridan Reviewed by Sean Magill First of all, do go and see In the Name of the Father. It is a powerful, harrowing and at times uplifting account of an unjust legal system. The dramatisation of