By Danny Fairfax and Ryan Liddell
Imagine this: you wake up in the morning and you're feeling terrible. You have a headache and a sore throat. You ask your mother if you can stay home from school and, on feeling your temperature, she agrees. You
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Tough if you're not in business
"Addressing a conference of all Labor candidates and campaign directors ... [NSW Labor Premier Bob] Carr painted the Labor Government as a tough law enforcer ... and a keen promoter of business interests." — Sydney
By Jon Land
After the fall of Indonesian dictator Suharto in May, the independence struggle in East Timor entered a new phase; a major obstacle to freedom was removed. In Australia, the Howard government and the Labor opposition welcomed Suharto's
Write on: Letters to the editor
Non-competitive games
I've been reading and watching the news and there have been stories about possible corruption in the Olympic Games movement and another story about steroids use by sports people. There are
ACTEW privatisation victory
By James Vassilopoulos
Unions scored an important victory on February 2, when the Legislative Assembly voted down the government's proposal to privatise the Australian Capital Territory Electricity and Water (ACTEW).
DEDE OETOMO is coordinator of Gaya Nusantara, a national gay rights group in Indonesia. He is currently visiting Australia and will address the Indonesian Solidarity Dinner at the Resistance Centre in Sydney on February 19 (details below). Last
Suspension of needle exchange increases HIV risk
By Tom Flanagan
SYDNEY — "Redfern is surely one of the most urgent and obvious places in NSW for a government-funded injecting room. It is not the place to suspend a needle exchange program",
12 months of Australian political cartoons
By Kim Bullimore
CANBERRA — The last 12 months have generated some of the most heated debates in recent Australian political history. Events such as Patrick's sacking of its entire work force, the
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary CountdownBy Stephen Jay GouldVintage, 1998190 pp., $17.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
This may be the only occasion in the history of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly when the following
You can't leave it to parliament
@box text int = When the Kennett government was first elected in Victoria, it announced a series of cutbacks and attacks in rapid succession, hoping that any potential opposition would be stunned into inaction.
By Wendy Robertson
At its last meeting, the National Union of Students (NUS) national executive decided it would not call a nationally coordinated day of action against the proposed introduction of voluntary student unionism (VSU) until May 6,
Hemp is one of the world's most useful plants. Its uses range from paper to fuel, and it could replace many environmentally destructive products.
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