FlirtDirected by Hal HartleyStars Martin Donovan, Bill SageDendy FilmsOpens nationally September 12Reviewed by Margaret Allan It is unusual for the characters in a film to start discussing amongst themselves whether or not the film maker has
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Cuts of $314 million to public hospitals and $2.6 billion to Medicare over the next four years ensure that the public health system will be a lot sicker as a result of the August 20 budget. Combined with the Coalition's subsidies to the private
By Con Costa
Changes to health care in the recent budget include the usual attacks on the sick and weak — more pressure on bulk billing, prescription costs to go up for all and attacks on dental care for health care card holders. Coalition health
Heat on APEC energy ministers
By Jonathan Strauss
SYDNEY — In an international appeal signed by 64 community groups from around Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) urged an Asia Pacific Economic
DR DAVID LEGGE is a lecturer in public health at La Trobe University. JENNIFER THOMPSON, interviewing him on the effects of cuts to the health budget, began by asking about the $314 million cut to state hospital grants over the next four years,
Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly asked the Democrats, the Greens and the Democratic Socialist Party for their views on the threat to the public health system. The three questions asked were:
The government has tried to sell its changes to the health budget as
Michael Lapsley, Priest and Partisan: A South African journeyBy Michael WorsnipOcean Press, 1996. 167 pp., $19.95Reviewed by Marina Cameron This book, about the life of prominent ANC activist and Anglican priest Michael Lapsley, provides some
Indonesian struggle for democracy — The Suharto regime has launched a major crackdown against the democracy movement in Indonesia. Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) has launched an emergency campaign to win the release of
By Peter Reid
Not content with having financially kneecapped the ABC, the Howard government now seems hell-bent on reducing the public broadcaster's role to a shadow of its former self as the controversial Mansfield inquiry begins in earnest
By Iggy Kim
HOBART — The Labor Party responded to the state budget with opportunist posturing. On August 19, its MPs puffed out their chests, stated they would vote against the budget and proposed extending the state debt by $120 million in order
Over the weekend of August 23-25, protests were held calling for an end to Australia's de jure recognition of the Indonesian annexation of East Timor. Actions in Darwin, Newcastle and Hamilton were reported in the last issue of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. In
Waiting for Lefty
Here we are together again. It's been a week since we last met. So how's it been?
You may be a regular, then again you may not. At least you have the paper within your grasp — now turning the pages to see what catches your
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