By Con Costa
Changes to health care in the recent budget include the usual attacks on the sick and weak — more pressure on bulk billing, prescription costs to go up for all and attacks on dental care for health care card holders. Coalition health
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Heat on APEC energy ministers
By Jonathan Strauss
SYDNEY — In an international appeal signed by 64 community groups from around Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, Climate Action Network Australia (CANA) urged an Asia Pacific Economic
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly asked the Democrats, the Greens and the Democratic Socialist Party for their views on the threat to the public health system. The three questions asked were:
The government has tried to sell its changes to the health budget as
Healing the scars
"If you don't have friends of another race, at least choose professionals of differing races." — Lynn Smith (Atlanta Journal and Constitution, August 16).
I recently read Lynn Smith's review of 40 Ways to Raise a Nonracist
Michael Lapsley, Priest and Partisan: A South African journeyBy Michael WorsnipOcean Press, 1996. 167 pp., $19.95Reviewed by Marina Cameron This book, about the life of prominent ANC activist and Anglican priest Michael Lapsley, provides some
Waiting for Lefty
Here we are together again. It's been a week since we last met. So how's it been?
You may be a regular, then again you may not. At least you have the paper within your grasp — now turning the pages to see what catches your
Indonesian struggle for democracy — The Suharto regime has launched a major crackdown against the democracy movement in Indonesia. Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) has launched an emergency campaign to win the release of
By Iggy Kim
HOBART — The Labor Party responded to the state budget with opportunist posturing. On August 19, its MPs puffed out their chests, stated they would vote against the budget and proposed extending the state debt by $120 million in order
Getting ahead
"If you are soft and nice, you don't get anywhere in the ALP." — Liz McNamara, the new president of NSW Young Labor.
Very high hopes
"He [Aussie Vaughan, former Queensland secretary of the AMWU] hoped that when George [Campbell,
Over the weekend of August 23-25, protests were held calling for an end to Australia's de jure recognition of the Indonesian annexation of East Timor. Actions in Darwin, Newcastle and Hamilton were reported in the last issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. In
Defence fund
There has been an excellent initial response to the appeal for funds to support the hunted PRD activists and the defence campaign for arrested PRD and other political prisoners. Almost $1500 has been donated, including several hundred
By John Girdham
DARWIN — Only two days after the announced budget funding cuts to ATSIC, an indigenous cultural symposium was held
at the Northern Territory University to discuss the immediate and
long-term position of the Aboriginal and
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