Mothers' Day this year, again, was a bit of a horror. According to the commercialised tradition, it's a day when we are supposed to buy appliances, lingerie or flowers for mums who're overworked, underpaid and unrecognised.
Particularly revolting
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BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
The South Australian Liberal government believed that it was on a winner when it privatised the state's electricity supply. However, it now looks like the move will be a major factor in the government's defeat at the next state
SAN FRANCISCO — Consider the irony of two events that occurred a couple days apart last month. On May 23, the first Chinese American ever to be elected to the US Congress was denied entry to the Department of Energy offices in Washington, DC. The
Ruddock 'greeted'
NEWCASTLE — Federal immigration minister Phillip Ruddock attended a citizenship ceremony here on May 28. With only two hours notice, 20 protesters outside greeted the "Minister for Racism" outside the Town Hall. The
BY SEAN HEALY
A funny thing happened on the way to the third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries in Brussels: the representatives of the rich nations suddenly discovered that their restrictions on market access for poor
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — "East Timorese must ask themselves, why are we still divided? We can't go on holding other countries to blame", the new country's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta told a public lecture at the University of New South Wales
BY ROWAN CAHILL
A selective and mythologised account of the past draws young people to Anzac Day celebrations. The chief of the armed forces is the Australian of the Year. Parliament passes a bill enabling the military to be used domestically
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= Jails, private schools favoured in NSW budget
Jails,
private schools favoured in NSW budget
BY JENNY LONG
SYDNEY — NSW treasurer Michael Egan delivered the state
Socialist Alliance?
It is quite obvious that, due to media bias and reactionary politics, terms such as socialism, communism, anarchy, green and left have been effectively discredited in the minds of a lot of people.
The expression "Socialist
BY TILLY ELDERFIELD
SYDNEY — Police in New South Wales are to be given wide powers to arrest people seen entering or leaving suspected "drug houses" and those suspected of acting as lookouts. Officers will also be able to seize properties and
BY SARAH STEPHENÂ
Public anger is mounting at the federal government's treatment of
asylum seekers, following a May 26 raid on the Port Hedland detention centre
and the arrest of 22 refugees singled out from a May 11 riot at the
COMMENT BY ROBERTO JORQUERAÂ
PERTH — According to countless media commentators and letter writers,
the M1 protesters who blockaded stock exchanges around the country were
violent, undemocratic and hypocritical because they were denying
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