By Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — The National Maritime Museum has gathered together a collection of artworks produced by Sydney wharfies in a fascinating exhibition, "On the Waterfront: wharfies, artists and actors". The exhibition brings to life the
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Comment by Ruth Birgin
Why, in the present Australian federal and state governments, is there not one vocal politician with enough backbone to tackle the "drug problem", not as a legal, but as a socio-medical issue?
The overwhelming
Stevie
Nile dictates to Fahey
Until the last week, the lesbian and gay communities themselves have been divided about the anti-vilification legislation, but the unprincipled actions taken by Fred Nile, who forced the government to modify
September 11 marks the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Socialist president Salvador Allende by the Chilean military.
By Ana Kailis
The Queensland government agreed last week to buy back large tracts of land on the Cape York Peninsula from Queensland developer George Quaid.
The September 6 announcement came after months of intense campaigning by the
John Fahey's softly, softly budget
By Reihana Mohideen
SYDNEY — The NSW Liberal government's September 7 budget seems less harsh than the recent budget of the Goss Labor government in Queensland. The cutbacks to the public sector proposed
By Pip Hinman
"Bill Clinton's 'successful' operation in Mogadishu has led to an unknown number of civilian deaths, has undermined the entire relief effort, and alienated the majority of ordinary Somalis from the very people they had hoped had
By Ignatius Kim
While media freedom and objectivity have for long been an ideological cornerstone of liberal democracy, their actual practice is rare and often a focus of political tension.
This will be one of the issues tackled in an SBS
The Greens and the budget
Just before Prime Minister Paul Keating flew off to Washington, he dismissed the attacks on his budget in the Senate as "sport" preventing him from governing in the national interest. But the Green and Democrat
By Anthony Brown
In the federal House of Representatives on September 17, 1970, a young Labor MP, Paul Keating, described transnational mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc's (RTZ) financial control of Australia's natural resources as
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council has called for a "week of action" against the Kennett government's attacks on workers and public services.
Beginning October 3 and culminating in a city rally on October 6 as
By Stephen Marks
MANAGUA — Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro used her Armed Forces Day address on September 3 to announce that the head of the Sandinista Popular Army, General Humberto Ortega, will be sacked early next year, plunging the
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