The measure of success
What is the measure of a successful internet company? Some would say
vision — the ability to bravely present the future in a world struggling
with the present. Others would suggest flair — having a style that
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BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — Members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) employed in power stations in the Latrobe Valley stopped work for several hours on the night of November 2, causing power blackouts in many parts of
BY GAIL LORD
SYDNEY — A group of pro-public education activists, including members of the Democratic Socialist Party and the Internationalist Socialist Organisation, demonstrated outside the Kings School in North Parramatta on November 2 to
The efforts by the West Papuan people to garner international support for self-determination have taken a number of leaps forward recently. But despite growing international concern at Indonesia's repressive policies in West Papua — including a ban
Reality bites
“MAKING LOVE LAST: How couples use illusion to maintain a happy marriage”
— page one headline for a Bettina Arndt article in the October 28-29 Sydney
Morning Herald.
Self-made millionaire
“The man behind
The Palestinian people are rebelling against the past 52 years of occupation and injustice. They have been betrayed by a false peace process that did little more than readjust the terms of Israeli occupation of their land.
The Palestinians have
The following appeal was made by Rahman Hoseinzadeh, secretary of the Kurdistan Worker-Communist Party of Iran, on November 1.
Mahmood Salehi, president of the Bakers' Syndicate in the city of Saqez, Kurdistan in Iran, was arrested for the second
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PERTH — Before the 1998 federal election, Western Australian Liberal Premier Richard Court described the One Nation party as having "racist policies which have no place in the Australian political system". One Nation was placed
The Art for a Change web site (<http://www.primenet.com/~mvallen>) has just published an emergency Palestine solidarity issue that documents art activism in support of a just and lasting peace between the Palestinian and Israeli people.
BY MAXINE CARON AND GARETH SMITH
BYRON BAY — About one hundred people gathered at the Great Northern Hotel here on October 29 for a fund-raising meeting organised by Byron Friends of East Timor and the Helping Ordinary People Exist(HOPE).
Isa
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV,
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — Feminists and socialists have opposed the appointment of a male women's officer at Tasmania University's Launceston campus, calling it a step backwards for women.
"Whichever way you look at it, having a man as
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