A win for reaction
The defeat of the republic referendum on Saturday was a victory for reaction. It was not an unmixed victory, however, and need not be a major one, provided progressive-minded people understand the reasons for it.
The result of
Editorial
End military ties with Jakarta, now!
The federal government has made much of its supposed foreign policy "shift" on East Timor. Foreign minister Alexander Downer travelled to Indonesia on July 30 for discussions with Indonesian government and
Neither 'free' trade nor protection
US President Bill Clinton announced on July 8 that Australia's quota of lamb exports to the United States would be subject to a 9% tariff, with extra shipments facing a 40% tariff. In subsequent talk-back radio
The theft of Telstra
The Senate vote to privatise more of Telstra is another theft of public assets and is not in the interests of consumers or telecommunications workers.
Last year, Telstra made a net profit of $3 billion, and it is expected to
Kosovars, not NATO, must decide their future
The US-directed NATO air war against Serbia appears to have ended. NATO forces are occupying Kosova.
NATO's bombing campaign continued by violent means its policy of seeking to preserve the political
East Timor's best chances for freedom
Almost every day, more evidence emerges of the Indonesian regime's support and coordination of the pro-integration terror gangs in East Timor. These "militias" are carrying out a terror campaign against the
It is ironic that on the day the Business Review Weekly released its Rich 200 list, the Australian Democrats and the Coalition agreed on a GST deal to make those on the list even richer.
Australia's richest tycoons increased their wealth by $9
East Timor and trade union solidarity
Workers and their unions are starting to discuss how they can take action in solidarity with the East Timorese nation's fight to decide its own future.
Aircraft maintenance workers' delegates at the Qantas
The GST: just reject it!
The Senate inquiry into the federal government's proposed goods and services tax (GST) has unearthed plenty of evidence to prove that it is fundamentally unfair and inequitable.
However, during the course of the inquiry,
Washington's hidden war on Iraq
Imagine the United States is involved in its most intense air war since
the 1991 Gulf War, and its most protracted since the Vietnam War. As it
bombs its “enemy” many times every day, it kills several dozen
The army's new manual, Fundamentals of Land Warfare, suggests two
uses for the organisation: “The Army provides expeditionary forces to support
Australia's national interests offshore and territorial forces to protect
Australian sovereignty.”
The heroin problem, and the other one
In English writer Samuel Butler's 19th-century satirical novel Erewhon, the inhabitants of the mythical country attempt to breed a race of healthy and beautiful people by punishing sickness and infirmity as a
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