Charlotte Mutoro Archive

Lisa D’Amour’s dark comedy Detroit, which opened at the Eternity Theatre on July 22, is a profoundly humorous, if rather disturbing, critique of the decaying economic and social structure of middle class America. The work was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize and …

An ill female health worker has been admitted to Canberra Hospital this week and is being treated in isolation under the hospital’s Ebola protocol after returning from West Africa. The results of the Ebola test are not yet known for the woman who …

  Waitakere Council in west Auckland, New Zealand, in partnership with the Weedfree Trust, has declared a war on weeds. Its annual campaign, designed to save native bush, ran all through March. Phil Rasmussen, pharmacist and practicing New Zealand phytotherapist, said many …

    Australia’s oldest complementary medicine association, the National Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA), held its ninth international conference on herbal medicine last weekend in Sydney. Three keynote speakers from the US, Sweden and Australia, Dr Joe Pizzorno, Jonathan Treasure and Dr …

Former nurse Lucy Haslam, who organised the Inaugural Medicinal Cannabis Symposium in Tamworth last month, has welcomed NSW Premier Mike Baird’s announcement on December 21 that up to $9 million will be allocated to conduct three or more clinical trials to look …

Kenya has hit it rich. In May this year multinational oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil discovered additional oil reserves worth US $10 billion in the South Lokichar basin of arid Turkana land northwest of Nairobi. A World Bank interest free …

Roberta is a classic A type personality. Hitting the kitchen with the jitters after a nauseating day, she opens the fridge desperate for anything that will raise her blood sugar levels. “Hello Roberta, how was work”? “Ghastly,” she replies. “There’s that last …

Precious antiquities and treasures that traverse 3000 years of Chinese history are on display for the first time at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Sydney’s CBD. This once in a lifetime opportunity to see rare antiques, many never exhibited before, ends on …