Write on: Letters to the editor
Head On
I refer to the review of the film Head On ("Ethnicity, class and sexuality collide head on", GLW September 30) by Conrad Barnett and Natalie Wood: "Ari (Alex Dimitriades) takes us on a 24-hour bender and
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Election of One Nation senator condemned
By Peter Robson
BRISBANE — The Democratic Socialist Party organised a speak-out of 50 people in the Queen Street Mall on October 9 to protest the election of One Nation member Heather Hill to the Senate
Poor conditions for unpaid carers
MELBOURNE — A five-year study has exposed the poor conditions of unpaid carers in the home in Victoria. The study by health professionals reveals that most carers are women, and a large number are on duty
Love, booze and social justice
Upstairs @ Lamberti'sThe Hooligans Review by Barry Healy
The Irish folk tradition is a broad church. It includes everything from the respectable, squeaky-clean Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem through to the
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — The long-awaited decision on Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly distributors' right to use public space was made by Adelaide City Council at its meeting of October 6. The council supported the recommendations of a report stating that
By Michael David
When ordinary people claim they want "tax reform", what they want is an end to tax rorting, legal and illegal and quasi-legal. They want equity in the tax system. During the federal election campaign, Liberal and Labor both
Review by James Vassilopoulos
As it happened: the Greek Civil War SBS TVFriday, October 16, 8pm (7.30pm SA) A far greater tragedy than the ancient Greek playwrights Euripides, Aeschylus or Sophocles could ever have written befell the Greek people
No less than 599 million
By Brandon Astor Jones
Like silent precious gems harnessed tightly to a speeding stallionEach second's passage is shouldered as a yoke of eternal weightStrapping down the wretched's limbs, condemned before hell's
'Free Burma, boycott Pacrim!'
By Adam Baker
BRISBANE — "Free Burma, boycott Pacrim!" was the demand of a small but lively group of picketers outside the head office of Pacrim Energy Australia (PEA) in the inner-city suburb of Spring Hill on
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) lists the basic rights and freedoms that every person is entitled to. December 10 will be the 50th anniversary of the document's drafting. Many Australians are probably unaware of the existence of this
By Dick Nichols
SYDNEY — The implementation of the deal which ended the dispute between Patrick Stevedores and the Maritime Union of Australia has hit serious snags here. MUA central NSW branch deputy secretary Jim Donovan has claimed in an
International news briefs
Korean bank strike aborted
A planned strike led by South Korea's Federation of Bank and Financial Labour Unions (KFBU) to defend 18,700 jobs was called off on September 29, the day it was scheduled to take place.
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