BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — As the February 10 state election looms, the major parties are whipping up hysteria over Western Australia's non-existent "crime wave". The Liberals, the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats are competing to
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BY NORM DIXON
Talks between the Papua New Guinea government and Bougainville leaders on January 26 have finally resulted in an agreement to hold a referendum in which the people of Bougainville will be given the option to choose independence —
Bosnia, Kosova and the West — The Yugoslav tragedy: a Marxist viewBy Mike KaradjisResistance Books, 2000251pp, $24.97 (pb)
BY JUSTIN RANDELL
Many articles and books have been written, from all points of the political spectrum, that attempt to
BY PETER BOYLE
The Democratic Socialist Party's appeal for a socialist electoral
alliance to stand common candidates in the next federal elections has met
with an enthusiastic response from the activist left.
So far the International
BY BARBARA WHELAN
PERTH — Residents of Burt Way, East Perth are outraged over Perth City Council's plan to demolish the housing in their street to make way for luxury high rise apartments.
Local resident Karen Kinsett told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE
HOBART — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly volunteers have vowed to defy attempts by Hobart City Council to prevent the paper being distributed in the Elizabeth Street Mall. Council officers directed two 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly distributors to leave
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
It doesn't matter whether what's being proposed is a woodchip mill, an inner-city monorail, a block of luxury apartments, an airport extension or anything else. There's a comprehensive planning process that has to be gone through,
What Are Rock Stars Doing TodayMagic DirtWarner Music<http://www.magicdirt.net>
REVIEW BY BEN COURTICE
GEELONG — Local band Magic Dirt have produced a brilliant album of dreamy but catchy pop-leaning songs. It's the best new
BY ROBERT DARCY
SYDNEY — Dita Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), has written to the central New South Wales branch of the Maritime Union of Australia to thank the union for funding a number of FNPBI
Unearth ThisOb(zine) Blue Mountains/western Sydney music compilationAvailable from PO Box 300, Blaxland NSW 2774 or <http://fly.to/obzine>
BY BARRY HEALY
This collection of 17 tracks by different bands from the western Sydney/Blue
Echos
"The problem facing both leaders is that the more they try to distance themselves from each other, the more they are sounding the same." — Paul Coorey, the Adelaide Advertiser's chief political reporter comparing Prime Menzies John Howard
BY ROBERT DARCY
New Zealand's Waterfront Workers Union (WWU) is locked in a major dispute with forestry giant Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) over the contracting of cheap labour to load log ships in South Island ports. Over the last three months pickets
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