By Stephen Robson
PERTH — The recent WA state election revealed some quite different attitudes to the issue of preferences among the various alternative candidates.
The Australian Democrats dropped their usual policy of an open ticket
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By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Antinuclear activists in Russia plan a vigorous campaign against a new government program which would increase sharply the number of nuclear power reactors operating on Russian territory. The government's plans
Genuine
"He is the duly elected president of Russia and a genuine democrat." — US President Bill Clinton, explaining why he will support Boris Yeltsin if the latter dissolves the Russian parliament and institutes emergency rule.
In all
Black deaths protest
By Sean Pybus
HOBART — Groups including Support for Aboriginal Rights Tasmania (SART) gathered on March 2 at the opening ceremony of the state parliament.
SART had planned a three-day vigil to pressure the
Parties speak on women's issues
By Alison Dellit
ADELAIDE — About 50 people packed into the Talbot Hotel on the night of March 10 for a meeting, organised by the Democratic Socialists, to hear and question representatives from the Labor
By Brian T. Carey
The surviving members of the New Left Party have called a special conference, on March 20-21, to consider winding it up as a left political/electoral party, and replacing what remains by some loose form of network. To a
Comment by Teresa Dowding
There was so much that frustrated and angered me in Susan Barley's article ("Child-care and promises", GLW March 10) that I felt compelled to answer some of her assertions.
As a working mother of one child, I am
Korea and the bomb
The North Korean government last week withdrew from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The decision follows a publicity campaign by the United States claiming that North Korea is developing or has already built an atomic
'Voters reject GST, anti-union laws'
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — "In a highly polarised election, the Australian people have thrown out the GST, the threat to Medicare and the Coalition's anti-union laws", the Democratic Socialist
Petra Kelly on population and hunger
By Frank Noakes
The ongoing debate in Â鶹´«Ã½'s pages about population could perhaps benefit from consideration of what the late German Green Petra Kelly had to say on the topic. Speaking at the
By Peter Boyle
and Steve Robson
The decline in the third party, and especially Democrat, votes in the federal election, compared to 1990, can be expected to renew the pressures for merger between the Democrats and Bob Brown's Australian
Australians for Genocide Party?
By Sarah Harris
WOLLONGONG — The candidate of the Australians Against Further Immigration Party for the seat of Throsby, David Hughes, has made a novel contribution to the immigration debate.
Hughes
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