Antiwar fighter seeks to return to US
By Deirdre Graham
A self-exiled man, who claims he destroyed draft files of poor and working class kids and destroyed the computer network of Dow Chemical Corporation during the Vietnam War, is
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Cutting schools off at the knees
The recent federal budget contained a little item which was apparently regarded as so unimportant, it didn't even rate a mention in the media coverage. Funding to a gender equity program in high schools was
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French nuclear tests
What a quandary our mate Paul must be in, with our cane toad friends about to nuke the South Pacific just to show how much they appreciate our existence and him with all that expensive francophilia tickery
By Jo Brown
MELBOURNE — The annual Network of Women Students in Australia (NOWSA) conference will be held at Melbourne University July 3-7. The conference, which has attracted up to 500 women in recent years, promises to be an exciting
By Max Watts
What do Kurt Waldheim, Macbeth, Hamlet's uncle the king of Denmark, and "Australian Foreign Minister" Senator Owens in Robert Cockburn's play Hotel Hibiscus have in common?
All have had trouble with a ghost. The ghost of their
By Trish Corcoran
Young people around Australia are discussing the state of world politics in preparation for the 24th national conference of Resistance. The conference will be held in Melbourne, July 8-10.
The discussion is wide-ranging:
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Prisoners of Progress
Members of non-government and solidarity organisations attended the Melbourne launch of a booklet on Indonesian workers' rights on June 6. Prisoners of Progress is a joint project of the Federation of Dutch
The politics of 'corruption'
By Tim Anderson
Images of brothel owners and small time drug-dealers paying off corrupt police have created excitement at the NSW police royal commission. Some commentators have rather breathlessly suggested
Braveheart
Starring Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan and Catherine McCormack
Produced and directed by Mel Gibson
Reviewed by Barry Healy
Scottish history is particularly colourful and fascinating. The wild clans of the Picts
By Chow Wei-Cheng
We are witnessing most brazen bank robbery of them all. The top four banks this year alone will reap a massive $5.2 billion in profits from customers and workers. Yet they are crying poor and introducing schemes to increase the
By Karl Miller
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Liberal government is on a privatisation binge.
Its privatisation plans and accomplishments include: electricity generation, electricity transmission/distribution, water distribution, gas
By Lisa Macdonald
SYDNEY — The new Labor government announced its forests industry reform plan for NSW on June 13. A central plank of the ALP's state election campaign in March, the plan has been cautiously welcomed by the peak environment
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