Watch out: here comes another 'reform'
We've had years of economic "reform" — deregulation and privatisation to benefit big business at the expense of the rest of us. We've had workplace "reform" — restrictions on workers' rights to organise
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Scam! Everything has a priceMusic and lyrics by Sean PeterBook by Barry LoweJunction Theatre CompanyQueen's Theatre, Playhouse Lane, AdelaideWednesday to Saturday, August 5 to 22$18/12 concession Review by Melanie Sjoberg
Corporate greed and
That word
In July I attended my first Network of Women Students Australia conference. Having been an active feminist (but not a student) for years, I was amazed to hear the words chick and girl — demeaning words for women — in common usage
By Jim Green
The ALP has been badly embarrassed by Gareth Evans, who has stuck his foot in his mouth yet again. Evans wrote to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) acknowledging that the ALP "opposition's" "opposition"
Democrats no alternative
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — Labor Party members and some media commentators are reporting that the Northcote by-election on August 15 will result in a high vote for One Nation. The by-election is taking place to allow high
By Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans
More than 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the US — the highest per capita incarceration rate in the history of the world. In 1995 alone, 150 new US prisons were built and filled. This monumental
By Peter Boyle
Resistance, the socialist youth organisation, has continued to receive widespread television, radio and newspaper coverage for its audacious campaigning against racism. Since Resistance called the initial round of high school
Victorian nurses take action
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Nurses at the Royal Melbourne Hospital voted on August 5 to begin an industrial campaign to force the Kennett government to fund adequate staffing levels and patient care. On August 6, the
Flushed with embarrassment
By Brandon Astor Jones
In prison, during shakedowns (cell searches), things like letters and such get misplaced and/or lost. The following bit of humour got separated from the envelope that it came in. I have no
New Jabiluka video
Keith Armstrong of Queensland Jabiluka Action Group has announced the release of his film, Interstate Ferals for the Planet: 3 Weeks at the Jabiluka Blockade (½ hr VHS). Armstrong said the video was made "straight after
TogetherWhiteville Apparel ChoirSend US$13 (cassette) to UNITE Choir Project, 1010 Tucker St, Greensboro, NC 27405, USAFortunes of the HighwayPhil CohenSend US$15 (CD) to PO Box 5208, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA Review by Norm Dixon
"We are the
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Fair go!
Your government wants to spend $10 million of taxpayers' money to tell you why we need a GST. What could be more appropriate than using tax money to raise new taxes?
But some selfish spoilsports are trying to stop
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