Duty calls
"Cabinet members should be more deeply involved in issues, and some of them might care to stay in Australia and do some work. It's been hard to find them in Australia this year." — Federal Labor backbencher Peter Cleeland, MP for
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By Rohan Gaiswinkler
Unionists from unions covering the community, health and education sectors participated in a blockade of the Heemskirk Link Road on March 24, calling upon the government to stop the environmentally destructive development.
Serbs charged with war crimes
The Hague International War Crimes Tribunal issued its first mass indictments on February 13, charging 21 Serbs with 275 counts of war crimes, breaches of the Geneva Convention, crimes against humanity and
Outworkers' conditions revealed
By Sean Healy
Forty Australian fashion labels have been named in a recent report as super-exploiting women outworkers. Country Road, Pelaco, Adidas, Sportsgirl, Katies, Jag, Laura Ashley and Nike were all
Come Together: John Lennon in his Time
By Jon Weiner
Faber and Faber, 1995. 379 pp., $18.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
John Lennon angered all the right people. During the Beatles' first tour of the States in 1966, fundamentalist
The Canberra by-election
The establishment pundits regard by-elections as traditionally a way of letting off steam. But the result in the March 25 by-election for Ros Kelly's old seat of Canberra surprised everyone with its intensity. A swing of
By Emily Ross
The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Yellow Gate, is now embarking on its 14th year of direct action. Following the closure of the military base there, the focus is on fighting the newer Trident warheads, which are replacing
News From Nowhere and Other Writings
By William Morris
Edited by Clive Williams
Penguin. 430 pp., $12.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Dave Riley
William Morris was an extraordinary man. Today, a year short of the centenary of his death, perhaps a
Breaking Down Babylon — "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds" — From "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley. In his 50th anniversary year, Bob Marley's powerful challenge remains relevant not only for
Abortion information law goes to Irish court
By Kath Gelber
The Irish Supreme Court is to review a new "abortion information bill" allowing doctors and other professionals to give women the names and addresses of abortion clinics outside
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — November 11 is the 20th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, so we can expect to see considerable amounts of print space and airwaves devoted to analysing perhaps the most important event of
Twenty-four arrested in M2 blockade
By Sam Statham
SYDNEY — At 6am on March 29, police dispersed the "civil disobedience" blockade of the M2 Tollway, near Macquarie University in Epping, which had been costing the Abigroup-Obayashi
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