What other side?
"If the Labor Party doesn't, the other side of politics will force it on the agenda." — NSW ALP Premier Bob Carr on his plan to privatise the state's electricity industry.
Crying all the way to the bank
"No-one is
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Pulling the strings on an old classic
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — Sixty years after its first publication, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has been brought to life. After six years of lobbying for funding, puppet design and construction and
By Michael Karadjis
ATHENS, September 6 — While 10,000 Athenians waved flags and honked horns outside parliament at the news that Athens would stage the 2004 Olympics, the mood could hardly be described as overwhelming. Compared to events such
Hands off native title! Land rights now!
While pretending otherwise, Howard and his government are trying to push through with "bucket loads of extinguishment", as deputy PM Tim Fischer rather aptly, if undiplomatically, described the racist
Timorese art exhibition opens
By Kerryn Williams
CANBERRA — The Tuba-rai Metin art exhibition opened on September 11 at the Canberra School of Art. Initiated by the East Timor Cultural Centre in Fairfield, Sydney, this impressive
Small MiraclesBy Eric BogleLarrikin/Festival, 1997The Emigrant & the ExileBy Eric Bogle & John MunroLarrikin/Festival, 1997 Review by Alex Bainbridge
Eric Bogle's songs still maintain some connection with social — dare I say
The government's Wik bill, on the day it was introduced to the lower house, was described by Northern Land Council chairperson Galarrwuy Yunupingu as the final drink from the poisoned waterhole for indigenous people. 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's JENNIFER
By Michael Karadjis
ATHENS — The US/NATO-controlled "stabilisation forces" occupying Bosnia have come out openly on the side of Bosnian Serb President Biliana Plavsic in her power struggle with the clique around former president
By Polly MacDonald
WOLLONGONG — Two hundred residents showed their disapproval of changes to services at Port Kembla Hospital by walking out of a community consultation meeting held at Warrawong Community Centre on September 3. The Illawarra
By Norm Dixon
Veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war have mounted a determined campaign to expose the Mugabe government's failure to deliver decent living standards and land for the poor, and to fight corruption. Veterans want decent pensions and
By Eva Cheng
Ever since Beijing's turn toward the market in 1978, top Communist officials have repeated a "determination" to defend socialism and that state ownership would remain the "mainstay" of the economy. Beijing's key measure of
By Emma Webb
ADELAIDE The neo-Nazi grouplet National Action on September 6 marched down Hanson Road, which runs through the western suburbs and has a large Asian population. While the march attracted 10 people, some 100 anti-racists mobilised
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