By Catherine Brown
BELFAST — "I use to respect the police force; after all, it's the law. That's the way I was brought up — to look up to the law, and I brought my children up that way. But now I've changed completely", says Phyllis
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By Michelle Hovane
[This is the abridged text of a talk at a Perth Politics in the Pub on the topic "Prospects for a Left Alternative" on January 22. Hovane is the Democratic Socialist candidate for the seat of Perth in the WA election.]
Invasion Day in Brisbane
By Angelique Gellert
BRISBANE — More than 1000 members of the Brisbane Murri community and supporters observed Invasion Day here on January 26.
Wreaths were laid at the historical "Windmill" building, site
By Vivienne Porzsolt
Jonathan Swift once responded to some 18th century economists with a sardonic suggestion that children of the Irish poor might be farmed as food for the rich. Not much has changed, it seems, if the work of a prominent New
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — "You can't buy good health in a pharmacy!" That was a frequent refrain in Soviet newspapers during the era of Brezhnevite "stagnation". Writers used to stress that instead of treating yourself with medicines,
Nonviolence Speaks to Power
By Petra K. Kelly
Edited by Glenn D. Paige and Sarah Gilliatt
Centre for Global Nonviolence Planning Project
Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace
University of Hawaii
1992. 183pp. No price given.
Crackdown in Timor
The Indonesian military has unleashed a reign of terror in East Timor since the arrest of Fretilin leader Xanana Gusmao in Dili last year.
Jose Ramos-Horta, spokesperson for the East Timorese resistance, said on
Man of the people
US President Bill Clinton's first cabinet includes eight millionaires. George Bush's had six and Ronald Reagan's seven.
Spin
"146,000 miss out on offers for university" — headline in January 29 Australian. "They're in:
Adelaide's weekend of world music
By Melanie Sjoberg
ADELAIDE — "Three days and nights of musical bliss" proclaims the pamphlet promoting the WOMADELAIDE 93. "The world of music, arts and dance grabbed the hearts and minds of 30,000
By Lyndall Barnett
MELBOURNE — On January 20 Scott Baker was acquitted in Magistrate's Court of false charges laid against him by police who arrested and assaulted him in Collingwood last year.
In the afternoon of September 4, the
For the cowpokes
Beautiful
Clip Clop Club
Larrikin Records
Available on CD and cassette
Reviewed by Les Boyd
Do you vaguely remember waiting eagerly for Hopalong Cassidy to crackle onto the B and W tube? Or the Cisco Kid? Gene
Comment by Steve Painter
From a packed field, the Australian's Paddy McGuinness is rapidly emerging as Australia's leading crank columnist. In recent weeks, McGuinness has fearlessly taken on cyclists ("should be banned"), residents opposing
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