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News briefs

ADELAIDE — The state Liberal government is planning to offer the management of South Australia's sewerage and water systems to one of seven international companies. State infrastructure minister John Olsen said that operations would be taken over

... and ain't i a woman?: Women and the pope

Women and the pope In January, Australians are to be treated to a visit from the pope. He's coming over for the beatification of the person expected to become Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop. It's an interesting turn of events,

Looking out: Standard operating policy

Standard operating policy By Brandon Astor Jones "Correspondence is prohibited with individuals outside the continental United States who are not related by birth, marriage, or legal adoption." — Warden A.G. Thomas To the dismay and

Interview: John Pilger

Australian journalist and film maker John Pilger was recently in Sydney on the way back to England from a trip to New Zealand. Zanny Begg from Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly spoke with him about the changing face of world politics. John Pilger isn't very

Poem: I Becomes We

Poem: I Becomes We By Denis O'Neill When I awake Who is there? I When I drink my tea Who is there? I When I take my walk Who walks? I I go home again Who is there? I again. Again I. Best I go To the Resistance

Kurdish newspapers bombed

Kurdish newspapers bombed The offices in Turkey of Kurdish daily Ozgur Ulke were bombed on the morning of December 3. The first bomb went off in Istanbul at about 3:30am. About five minutes later, the Ankara office was also bombed. The last bomb

Loose cannons

Cluck "Give a Chick a chance." — Election slogan of Kerry Chikarovski, new deputy leader of the NSW Liberal Party, during her first campaign for parliament, in 1981. New World Order at home "Every American now has a realistic chance of

Radio highlights

Time Is On Our Side — The Rolling Stones Story — This series is crammed with interviews, unique session performances and their music from the past three decades. Parts 2-3-4. ABC Radio National, Wednesday, December 14/21/28, 2.05pm.

The Cairo conference and reproductive rights

One of the more controversial events of 1994 was the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in September. GISELA DUeTTING, who attended from the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, based in the

What the Dickens? — a tale of two Scrooges

By Christopher Phelps "Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir." "Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons", said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

Write on

Consumers Tony Hastings (Write on #170) says that "the proletariat don't need their living standards raised any higher". Tell that to the majority of working people in Australia, whose standard of living has decreased in the last decade. Tell

On the box

About Us: My life as I live it — Aboriginal activist Essie Coffey's first film, My survival as an Aboriginal, was an immediate success at its release in 1978. This new documentary looks at what progress against racism has been made in Essie's home