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Red and green: too late to get together?

Red and green: too late to get together? In the face of a critical need for an ecologically sustainable and socially egalitarian society, too often many greens and much of the socialist left seem at loggerheads with each other, regularly drawing

Defeating voluntary student unionism

By Alison Dellit The campaign against voluntary student unionism legislation, introduced by the Kennett government in 1994, has entered another stage. With the cancellation of federal funding under the Coalition, many student unions have less than

Life of Riley: Little John

John Winston Howard, MHR (Lib) Bennelong: Get a load of that deficit! Phew! What a big 'un! You could have knocked me over with a feather. I said to my offsider — didn't I, Pete? — I said, "What we have here is a failure of big government". And

The continuing disaster of Chernobyl

Enjoying Life in ChernobylSBS, Friday, April 26, 8.30pm (8pm in SA)Reviewed by Pip Hinman Danish film maker Gyda Uldall first went to Chernobyl in 1988 and recorded the devastation caused by the nuclear disaster two years earlier in When the Wind

Noise 'shared' at Sydney airport

By Geoff Francis SYDNEY — On April 11, Sydney airport's east-west runway was reopened. According to Prime Minister John Howard, this fulfilled his pre-election promise to share around the burden of aircraft noise. This is far from true. Under the

Another look at porn

The Post Porn ModernistBy Annie SprinkleAthenaeum Theatre, MelbourneReviewed By Kim Linden Annie Sprinkle provides a thought-provoking look at pornography and new age erotica through the eyes of a woman who has made it BIG in the porn industry. The

Looking out: The family basement

The family basement "Prison guards beat a convicted thief and stepped on his penis during a search of the Wayne Correctional Institution last week, the inmate told his father." — Rhonda Cook, staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

... and ain't i a woman? Child abuse

Child abuse A royal commission into the NSW police has been investigating child sex abuse since the beginning of March. This has led to the media reporting on atrocities that have occurred over the last 10 to 20 years. A former state ward

Wages and working conditions under Hilmer

By Lou Gugenberger The Hilmer Report and the subsequent "competition policy reforms" are now law in both the Commonwealth and the states. They will have a greater effect on the lives of all Australians, it is suggested, than the Harvester judgment

Why the Paxtons were framed

By Natasha Izatt There has been a lot of media hype against the Paxton family. A bit of a response to the hype came from media monitors and probing journos, most notably in the form of Stuart Littlemore's critique of the media coverage on his TV

She'll be right, mate: the anti-environment backlash

By Dorothy Tumney There has been a barrage of anti-environment movement propaganda in the establishment media over the last 12 months. John O'Neill's article "Environmentalists and the Temple of Doom", published in the January 20 Sydney Morning

Philippine unions prepare for challenges

Philippine unions prepare for challenges MANILA — The Philippine labour movement, one of the most militant in Asia, faces a government zealously pursuing a policy of economic deregulation dictated by GATT and the structural adjustment programs of