BY ALISON DELLIT
The headlines on February 12 said it all: "Lazarus in a floral frock", "One Nation's king hit" and "Hanson's One Nation on the loose again". Following One Nation's 9.6% showing in the Western Australian elections on February 10,
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SYDNEY — Alistair Hulett, former frontperson of the legendary punk-folk band Roaring Jack and long-time Newtown resident, now lives in Scotland. Hulett is back in Australia for a short solo tour. Hulett was well-known for his strong support for the
McNews: Would you like lies with that?
BY MARCEL CAMERON
For the past week Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's dedicated bands of street sellers in Melbourne have had competition from an unlikely source on this city's street corners. Scores of teenagers in blue
BY MARTIN ILTIS
MELBOURNE — The local Brunswick community has reaffirmed its support for workers at the Chef whitegoods factory, holding a solidarity demonstration outside the factory on February 14.
Despite being profitable, the factory faces
The January release of the Tiananmen Papers — the purported leaked documents and transcripts of important top-level meetings of China's leaders concerning the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre — appears to be aimed at discrediting President Jiang Zemin before he steps down from two of China's three most powerful positions.
BY SEAN HEALY
Under concerted attack from increasingly vocal protest movements on its left flank, the International Monetary Fund may now face a new threat from its right flank — in the form of the new US administration of President George W.
BY NORM DIXON
The Scottish Socialist Party's member in the Scottish parliament, Tommy Sheridan, was among the more than 370 anti-nuclear weapons protesters arrested at the Faslane navy base near Glasgow on February 12. Scottish Labour MP George
BRISBANE — Latin American entertainers came out on February 3 to support
the survivors of the January 13 El Salvador earthquake. The benefit was
organised by Australia Aid for El Salvador and supported by Committee in
Solidarity with
BY MARG PERROTT
WOLLONGONG — Peter Wilson, a local organiser for on the NSW Teacher's Federation, was elected unopposed as president of the South Coast Labor Council. Wilson replaced Mike Dwyer, who was forced to resign due to ill health.
The
But it does a good imitation
"... the US cannot condemn corruption abroad while allowing its own banks to make a fortune off it." — A New York Times editorial, noting that most corrupt government leaders launder their loot through US banks.
BY KATELYN MOUNTFORD
BRISBANE — Resistance's mailbox here held a nasty surprise recently: a letter from Edmund McMahon, Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate in the seat of Mt Gravatt in the February 17 state election.
McMahon acknowledged that
BY NORM DIXON
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) have escalated the violent harassment and repression of their critics. Mugabe faces a presidential poll in 2002. He will be
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