By Chris Spindler ADELAIDE — Grand Prix time has to be one of the most wasteful, stinking, noisy, dangerous and hateful weekends to spend in Adelaide. There are fly-overs of air force planes, every shop displaying "their" car
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By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — "Nine years of concessions under the ALP-ACTU Accord have left the unions seriously weakened. Labor politicians continue to assure big business that they can better deliver wage cuts and industrial peace", said
Victoria Police racist, says ex-adviser By Alex Cooper MELBOURNE — The former Koori adviser to the Victoria Police, Ken Saunders, who resigned his position last month because of the "inherent racism in the police force", has accused the
Public transport campaign By Freya Pinney BRISBANE — Brisbane Environmental Youth Alliance launched its Public Transport Campaign on November 4 as part of Youth Week '92. More than 70 people attended the "Anti Traffic Jam" — a public
LIDY ALEJANDERO is secretary-general of BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance) in the Philippines. In Sydney for an Australian-Philippines solidarity conference, Alejandero was interviewed for Â鶹´«Ã½ by MAX LANE. Question: Could you explain just
Clinton and Gore, Clinton and Gore — Both of them born after the war! They're not liberals, like before — Technocratic, to the core. Clinton and Gore, Clinton and Gore. — from a poem by Calvin Trillin By Peter Anderson The
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — With a decree issued on October 28, Russian President Boris Yeltsin outlawed the country's major opposition formation, the National Salvation Front (FNS). The FNS had been set up four days earlier at a Moscow
By Peter Boyle MELBOURNE — Victorians used to joke about "political refugees" from Queensland under the former Bjelke-Petersen government. But soon, it seems, there may be a flight to the north, to what a local wit said was now a relative
Life on a string A film directed by Chen Kaige Starring Liu Zhongyuan and Huang Lei Reviewed by Wayne Ruscoe Two blind musicians wander an achingly beautiful landscape, searching for spiritual salvation or, at least, the return of the power
'Muslims must fight for their rights' Ifet Mustafic is the imam of the Islamic Society of Footscray in Melbourne, where he has worked for the past one and a half years. A Bosnian Muslim, he graduated from the Islamic faculty in Sarajevo. He
Anti-worker legislation Laws being rushed through the Victorian parliament include the Employee Relations Bill, the Vital State Industries Bill and the Public Sector Management Bill. Together they will: Abolish all state awards from March 1,
By Jo Brown As new entrants to the work force, young people will be the first hit with exploitative individual employment contracts. That has been the experience in New Zealand. In addition, the abolition of weekend penalty rates and the
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