Democrats no alternative
By Ben Reid
MELBOURNE — Labor Party members and some media commentators are reporting that the Northcote by-election on August 15 will result in a high vote for One Nation. The by-election is taking place to allow high
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By Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans
More than 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the US — the highest per capita incarceration rate in the history of the world. In 1995 alone, 150 new US prisons were built and filled. This monumental
By Peter Boyle
Resistance, the socialist youth organisation, has continued to receive widespread television, radio and newspaper coverage for its audacious campaigning against racism. Since Resistance called the initial round of high school
Victorian nurses take action
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Nurses at the Royal Melbourne Hospital voted on August 5 to begin an industrial campaign to force the Kennett government to fund adequate staffing levels and patient care. On August 6, the
Flushed with embarrassment
By Brandon Astor Jones
In prison, during shakedowns (cell searches), things like letters and such get misplaced and/or lost. The following bit of humour got separated from the envelope that it came in. I have no
New Jabiluka video
Keith Armstrong of Queensland Jabiluka Action Group has announced the release of his film, Interstate Ferals for the Planet: 3 Weeks at the Jabiluka Blockade (½ hr VHS). Armstrong said the video was made "straight after
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Your government wants to spend $10 million of taxpayers' money to tell you why we need a GST. What could be more appropriate than using tax money to raise new taxes?
But some selfish spoilsports are trying to stop
Hanson heavy gets rousing reception
By Annemarie Hopcroft
NEWCASTLE — David Oldfield, Pauline Hanson's "trusted adviser", was greeted by a vocal crowd as he arrived at a Newcastle Business Club luncheon on August 4. The 30 or so protesters
By James Vassilopoulos
SYDNEY — The Sydney Water Corporation announced on August 3 that the city's tap water was again safe to drink. Since July 30, nine days after the parasites giardia and cryptosporidium had been detected in Sydney's water
Mordechai Vanunu's story on stage
ADELAIDE — In August 1986, Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's secret nuclear bomb-making facilities and paid a high price for his courage. He was kidnapped by Israel's secret police and shipped in a crate from
By Barry Sheppard
As the 190,000 idled General Motors workers were returning to work following the end of the strikes at two plants in Flint, Michigan, management announced that GM would sell off its parts subsidiary, Delphi. This move ups the ante
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