Sri Lankans vote for democracy
By S. Piyasena
After 16 years of extreme right-wing rule, four of them under the government of slain dictator R. Premadasa, the people of Sri Lanka have overwhelmingly voted for the restoration of
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ADELAIDE — About 80 people on May 19 heard Renate Klein, an academic from Deakin University and representative of Feminist International Resistance Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering, speak on Women and Reproductive
By Slavenka Drakulic
ZAGREB, Croatia — The room is tiny, with one small window letting in almost no light on a gloomy winter morning. Outside, it's bitter cold, -
15° C. Stiffly frozen pieces of hand-washed clothing are hanging on
By Peter Boyle
Everyone hopes to be a winner when they buy a lottery ticket or place a bet at the TAB. That is certainly the emphasis of the slick advertising for the burgeoning legal gambling industry.
But even those who fervently
ACTU letter on Cambodia
Members of the ACTU executive and other union leaders have written to foreign minister Senator Gareth Evans urging economic aid for Cambodia and the exclusion of the Khmer Rouge from the peace process.
The letter
UN and Cambodia
Of all the crimes against humanity committed in the name of the UN (Gulf War, Bosnia etc) by far the worst is the role of the UN in Cambodia as detailed by John Pilger in his latest film Return To Year Zero. Despite their
For increasing numbers of Chinese, Li Ning, a former Olympic gold medal gymnast and current business entrepreneur, stands as a symbol of China's new "enterprise culture". Together with other select sports stars, pop
Under The Rainbow: Aquarius Revisited — The first of a three-part series. The 1973 Aquarius Festival provided a focus for many alternative and radical ideas. The dying dairy town of Nimbin in northern NSW became the centre of an alternative
Miriam Tramer
Israel's deputy minister for foreign affairs, Dr Yossi Beilin, was in Australia recently and spoke to the National Press Club in Canberra in very optimistic terms of the prospects for peace in the Middle East.
He said,
"Newly-introduced mobile telephone numbers containing three or four 'lucky eights' are auctioned off by the local post bureaux for ... as much as ... sixteen times the official national average GNP per capita. Mobile phones themselves cost an
Wollongong fights cuts in incest services
By Sarah Harris
WOLLONGONG — Two hundred people gathered in the Town Hall on May 13 to demand an increase in incest services for Wollongong and the Illawarra region.
The public meeting was
WA TLC dithers as attacks mount
By Geoff Spencer
PERTH — A motion for a Trades and Labor Council-endorsed day of action involving a stop-work meeting and rally on June 17 was defeated 51 votes to 31 after a sharp debate at the TLC
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