Voluntary student unionism push in NZ
By Marina Carman
In an attempt to weaken student opposition to the privatisation of higher education, Â鶹´«Ã½ of the New Zealand government are making a renewed push to legislate for voluntary student
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Appropriate technology in Guatemala
BRISBANE — West End's House of Freedom was packed to hear Patricia Morrow present a talk and slide show on two projects in the highlands of Guatemala as part of the Australian Volunteer Abroad Program organised
By Max Lane
In response to media questions on the morality of the government's promised US$1 billion loan to the Suharto regime, PM John Howard claims the money is for the Indonesian people — not the Suharto family. The loan has become
He Plays Zeus From Olympus
I work the phones, where the raw stuff's on tap,a million soap operas bottled and trapped,and think how apart from boosting the ratings ofradio personalities,this is quite the best line for the developing poet,about how
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — For several months from mid-1997, the message in the mainstream Russian press was unanimous: the bad times were ending. The collapse that had almost halved the size of the country's economy since 1990 had bottomed out.
In the name of humanity
By Yvonne Francis
[This is the text of a letter sent to the judge who will hear the appeal of Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly columnist Brandon Astor Jones against his sentence to execution.] In June 1995 my brother, William George
The Victory — (The Inside Story of the Takeover of Australia)By Pamela WilliamsAllen & Unwin, 1997, 370 pp., $24.95 (pb) Review by Melanie Sjoberg
The Victory is a gripping tale of intrigue, dubious financial deals and dynamic interpersonal
The Landlord of Oz
Synopsis, being a summary of what has gone before for the benefit of those who have just joined us:
At a time, not too far away, the WICKED WIK OF THE NORTH cast an evil spell over the Wonderful Land of Oz. Fearing that
The latest in Barbie-mania has hit the Australian airwaves. Now we have not only the Barbie house, the Barbie horse and the Barbie car, but also the Barbie song.
By Jennifer Thompson
On October 29, Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council announced that US citizens and aircraft working for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) on Iraq would be banned. However, the Iraqi leadership's hope of forcing a
Defining terrorism in Sri Lanka
By Ana Pararajasingham
The bomb blast that shook Colombo's financial centre on October 15 killed 13 people and injured scores of others. The Sri Lankan government promptly blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE).
The National Union of Students is the peak umbrella organisation of student unions in Australia. Whilst it has generally been subject to a conservative and careerist Labor leadership, it has also been the scene of struggles between Labor and more
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