By Nick Fredman
LISMORE — Student activists here kicked off the year with a lively protest on February 18 against tighter restrictions to Austudy eligibility and other attacks on education. A lunchtime speak-out was organised by the Student
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Arnott's workers the 'innocent victims'
By James Vassilopoulos
Contrary to last week's claim by Arnott's Biscuits' managing director Chris Roberts that the company is the "innocent victim" in the current extortion attempt, the real innocent
By Julia Bale
Amnesty International issued an urgent action demand last week on the case of Irish prisoner Roisin McAliskey. McAliskey, seven months pregnant and in bad health, is being held in a British prison awaiting extradition proceedings by
By Dave Riley
Satire, to be worthy of its name, generalises, exaggerates and distorts. Because it relies on its immediate impact and addresses topical vices and abuses, satire can rely on persistence in its struggle against hypocrisy, pretence and
By Iggy Kim and Peter Boyle
Racism is often presented as a deep-seated and "ancient" suspicion and hostility between people of different races — a "natural" if mistaken prejudice that is hard to eradicate but will eventually be banished through
By Dave Mizon
MELBOURNE — At a mass meeting held at Williamstown Hall on February 14, more than 400 workers, members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union, the Electrical Trades Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers
details = The Captive Republic: A history of republicanism in Australia 1788-1996By Mark McKennaCambridge University Press, 1996334 pp., $29.95(pb), $90.00(hb)
Review by Alex Bainbridge
For many people, the republic debate is simply a bore — a
Reith's 'compete-or-perish' plan for the public service
By Val Edwards
In November, industrial relations minister Peter Reith issued his paper "Towards a Best Practice Australian Public Service". It sounds like a discussion document, but don't
Life of Riley: Stiff bickies
The Arnott's extortion attempt has hit the innocent hardest: the company, its employees and shareholders. The day the story broke, Arnott's shares fell 25 cents; after only three days 300 casual employees were stood
Me Generation and the death of a nation
There was a time when most knew want and therefore understood,
That in this land across the sea, there was a chance for good.
Knowing adversity, they saw their fellows in that light
And so against
By Jon Lamb
A number of major oil projects in the Timor Sea have recently been approved by the Howard government. On February 14, BHP Petroleum and partners (Petroz, Santos and Inpex Sahul Ltd.) received permission to develop the Elang-Kakatua oil
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — During 1996, Russia's Ministry of Defence Industry reported in January, output in the country's defence factories fell by a further 27.1% to a mere 12.8% of its 1991 level. That's not so bad, you might say — every
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