The Culture of Complaint
By Robert Hughes
Oxford University Press, 1993
Reviewed by Bill Doyle
Robert Hughes is probably best known in this country as the author of the excellent The Fatal Shore, or perhaps as the cheeky, slightly lairish
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By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — 7000 public sector workers, including teachers and nurses, mobilised on May 24 in opposition to massive job cuts proposed in the SA government's audit commission report on state finances. The establishment media,
Meet the Taylors
By Brandon Astor Jones
On May 22, Precious enjoyed teething on my eyeglasses case; and while she has now gone back to Chicago Heights, Illinois, her scent permeates that case.
She was a full eight months old yesterday.
By Ray Smith
HOBART — The 1992 honours thesis of Alexandra de Blas, which studied the impact of the Mt Lyell Mining and Railway Company on Macquarie Harbour and Strahan, was published last week. Its appearance was delayed 16 months by threats
By Peter Montague
A white male of the baby boom generation is about twice as likely to get cancer as his grandfather was, and a white female of the same age has about a 50% greater chance of getting cancer than her grandmother did, according to
By Jill Hickson
SYDNEY — "Clearly, with the expansion of all forms of punishment in NSW, what we are seeing is not a crime wave but a punishment wave", states a review of prisons in NSW by the Inter-Church Committee on Prison Reform. The
By Phil Clarke
When Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it seemed likely to be the most viable of the ex-Soviet states aside from Russia itself. The country had a hugely productive domestic agriculture, enabling it to
Kumarangk Coalition fights bridge construction
By Stephen Baker
ADELAIDE — The decision to construct a bridge from the mainland to a small island near the mouth of the Murray River has been strongly opposed by local residents, Aboriginal
The following article is reprinted, slightly abridged, from the rank and file building workers' journal Back on Track.
When Juan Antonio Samaranch announced, "The winner is Sydney" on that Friday, September 24 1993, New South Wales rejoiced. And
Police harass Wilderness Society 'koalas'
By Bill Mason
"If the streets of Cairns are not safe for koalas, they're not really safe for human beings", responded Greg Sargent, branch secretary for the Wilderness Society, commenting on the
RACHEL EVANS and RAY FULCHER visited the Philippines for three weeks in April. Here they describe, in words and pictures, life in Payatas, the largest active rubbish dump in Manila.
The infamous Smoky Mountain proved too much of an embarrassment
Murri community targets skyrail
By John Nebauer
BRISBANE — The Djabugay community has claimed native title over the Barron Falls National park near Cairns to prevent construction of the $35 million Kuranda Skyrail.
The skyrail, for
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