By Bill Mason BRISBANE - Several hundred Aborigines and supporters rallied in the Ipswich Mall on March 7 to condemn the newly elected independent MP for Oxley Pauline Hanson for racism during her successful election campaign in the Ipswich-based
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By Nicolle Berell SYDNEY — On March 7, NSW teachers struck in support of their demand for a 12% pay rise with no productivity trade-offs. More than 2500 teachers packed Town Hall in one of several strike meetings that took place across the state to
By Lisa Macdonald The right-wing National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) is sponsoring an end of the month visit to Australia by former Greenpeace campaigner Patrick Moore. Since 1991, Moore has been working for the British Columbia Forests
By Susan Price MELBOURNE — Hoping to capitalise on the Howard Liberal/National Coalition victory and the spin-off from the Grand Prix, Premier Jeff Kennett has called a snap state poll for March 30. The Democratic Socialists are all geared up with
What's so super about super? By Chow Wei-Cheng Superannuation assets in Australia are estimated to be $230 billion, or about 53% of GDP. They are expected to grow to between $450 billion and $600 billion by the year 2000. Coverage of employees has
By Allen Myers Step right this way, ladies and gentlemen, and I'll introduce you to your new parliament. In here is the House of Representatives. Let's start with the opposition. It's easier to deal with them, because there are so few. In fact, it's
The following is extracts from a speech given by Sinn Féin president GERRY ADAMS in West Belfast on February 15, just days after the ending of the IRA's cease-fire. For many years, Sinn Féin has sought through patient but intense
Economic Fundamentalism: The New Zealand Experiment — A World Model for Structural Adjustment?By Jane KelseyPluto Press, 1995. 407 pp., $34.95Reviewed by Eva Cheng Economic Fundamentalism is a well-documented and substantial attempt to evaluate
Right credentials "He has shown more than most politicians a good understanding of how business works and would certainly have most of the credentials that a board would look for." — A representative of an "executive search" company on the further
Solidarity? Traditionally, progressive activists from all the social movements use election campaigns as an opportunity to raise the profile of the issues we're concerned with and strengthen our various campaigns and organisations. They also often
The Demidenko FileJohn Jost, Gianna Totaro, Christine Tyshing, (eds)Penguin, 1996, 300 pp., $14.95 (pb)Reviewed by Phil Shannon Helen Darville's prize-winning novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, is an anti-Semitic apology for the Holocaust. Yet
By Peter Montague In 1978, a small group of biologists studying the Elevenmile Creek in Escandia County, Florida, were "startled" to find a population of tiny mosquitofish that all appeared to be males, even though some were pregnant and were bearing
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