By Keara Courtney
The Labor Party, in contrast to the Liberals, sometimes tries to portray itself as an anti-nuclear party as a way of winning votes from the anti-nuclear and environmental movements. However, the ALP's real record gives the lie to
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The US experience
In the last 20 years, the prison population has quadrupled. There are 2 million people now behind bars, giving the US an incarceration rate five times that of other industrialised countries.
In the same period, spending on
Overproduction
Allen Myers' (rather esoteric) essay "Reinventing the Labor Party" (GLW #350) raised interesting points most of which I agreed with.
He could have developed further the aspect of making "Australia" more competitive. With
Yugoslavia and history
By Michael Karadjis
Jerome Fitzgerald ("Write on", GLW #348) correctly points to the importance of history and the need to get our facts right. Unfortunately, he repeats some common views on the conflicts in Yugoslavia
Incommunicado
By Brandon Astor Jones
"We do not have the personnel to provide checks for amounts which should be covered within the inmate's 20 stamp/week purchase authorization." — Deputy Warden of Care and Treatment D. Glenn Suggs On
How can we stop the logging?
[The following is abridged from a statement being circulated in Western Australia by Resistance and the Democratic Socialist Party.] More than 80% of Western Australians want an end to the clear-felling of old-growth
By Mary Merkenich
MELBOURNE — Australian Education Union members at Mill Park Secondary College in Melbourne's north-west recently stopped an erosion of their working conditions. Mill Park is the second largest state secondary college in
By Wendy Robertson
Within days of leaking its proposal, the Coalition has introduced voluntary student unionism legislation into parliament. The move provoked widespread anger amongst students, who overwhelmingly reject VSU. In response, the
Government hides report on Biak killings
By Linda Kaucher
The Australian Defence Department has refused a freedom of information request concerning West Papua put to the Department of Foreign Affairs. When Indonesian armed forces reacted
After having been postponed due to rain a week earlier, the International Women's Day march went ahead in Adelaide on March 13, reports Jo Ellis. Three hundred women and men rallied in support of the march's main demand, that anti-abortion laws be
Council kicks out Boral
By Alison Dellit and Hugh McCallum
NEWCASTLE — On February 9, Newcastle City Council voted nine to two to make environmental performance part of the criteria for deciding which companies it will have commercial dealings
Tanner laments 'family breakdown'
By Jo Brown
CANBERRA — Victorian Labor "left" MP Lindsay Tanner addressed a public meeting of 60 students organised by the Labor Left Club at the Australian National University on March 9. Tanner, who was
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