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ACT housing: 'Kickstart' to poverty

By Lara Pullin The 1996-97 ACT budget launched a new Liberal government program to move people out of secure and affordable public housing and into the private home-buyers market. The "Kickstart" program is the result of the suspension of the ACT

Chemicals linked to declining male reproductive health

By Peter Montague A lengthy new report from the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [NIEHS] describes serious deterioration of the male reproductive system in many regions of the world and suggests it may be caused by

Manning Clark smear exposed

By Bill Mason BRISBANE — The vicious smear campaign mounted by the Brisbane Courier-Mail newspaper against respected historian Professor Manning Clark over the past few months has been demolished by revelations from the Russian government that

Write on: Letters to the editor

CTBT Before replying to Allen Myer's "CTBT: don't be fooled" (GLW #252), might I just point out that I wrote that the fate of the Soviet Union (not the fact of the Soviet Union) should be enough evidence to show that nuclear weapons do not provide

Greens and immigration

Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's JORGE ANDRES spoke to Australian Greens Senator BOB BROWN about the renewed debate on immigration. Question: How do you see the issue of limits on immigration? The limits have to be set according to changing circumstances.

ALP wins another union

The defeat of the Bill Ethel leadership in the elections of the Western Australian branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is a blow to the already too small left wing in the union officialdom. The prize goes to the Labor Party,

Defeating Howard

By Dave Abbott A strategy to defeat Howard must involve as wide as possible an alliance of paid and unpaid workers, unions, community groups, academics, and others. The Senate can do little more than temper the extremes of Coalition ideology. The

Korean workers fight repressive laws

By Eva Cheng On November 4, president of the "illegal" Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Kwon Young-kil, began an indefinite hunger strike in protest at recent manoeuvres by the government and employer groups to finalise a year-long industrial

Support needed for 'people's reconciliation resolution'

Support needed for 'people's reconciliation resolution' SYDNEY — The National Aboriginal History and Heritage Council is proposing an alternative "people's reconciliation resolution" to the one which will be put to state parliament by Labor

Democracy

Two contests on the first Tuesday in November attracted a lot of media attention. While the Melbourne Cup results surprised a few, the outcome of the big race in the northern hemisphere — the US presidential elections — was never in doubt.

Strong textures

Second SkinGhostwritersPolygramReviewed by Marcus Greville The Ghostwriters have produced a very strong album, incorporating brooding vocals with a large variety of instrumental depth and melody within each track. Unfortunately, the depth of musical

International news briefs

ZANU-PF drops Marxism Zimbabwe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has formally dropped allegiance to Marxism-Leninism from its constitution, the party's newspaper announced on October 26. Party spokesperson Eddison