Love's Labours Lost?
"This is a very classic, almost Shakespearean story." — Alan Glueckman, who wrote the lyrics for a musical based on the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.
The march of something-or-other
"It is not possible to judge whether there
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By Karen Ingram
The US state of Oklahoma executed Sean Sellers on February 4. He had been on death row since 1986, when he was convicted for the murders of his mother and stepfather. Sellers was 16 years old when he committed the crimes. After
... and ain't I a woman?: Sex and sandwiches
A clause referring to minimum dress requirements was deleted from three major awards by the Industrial Relations Commission on January 27. Commissioner Len Hingley said that the clause was outside
Help register socialists in Tasmania
HOBART — The Democratic Socialists are attempting to register as a party with the Tasmanian electoral office. This will enable DS candidates to appear on state election ballot papers with their party
By Kim Bullimore
CANBERRA — On the orders of parliamentary officials, federal police again attacked a peaceful protest by members of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House on February 15. Police violently wrenched spears,
By Wendy Robertson
According to Karl Marx, capitalism is a system based on the debasement, enslavement and exploitation of the majority by the few. Marx provided a scientific analysis for the struggle for human liberation, and a method to make
By Karen Fletcher
Two reports on released recently in South Australia and Victoria raise a number of proposals of great concern to the community legal centre movement. "Community Legal Centres in South Australia: A Fabric for the Future" (May 1998)
What's behind MUA rank-and-file revival?
MELBOURNE — Community radio 3CR's Friday Breakfast Show interviewed Chris Cain and Ian Bray from the WA Maritime Union of Australia Rank and File on February 5. The interview, conducted by Susan Price, has
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Forests become an election issue
By Simon Kenny
On February 16, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the wood supply guaranteed by the National Parks and Forestry Estate Act (1998) for the next 20 years is to be reviewed by the NSW Audit
Kurdish Australians demand fair trial for Ocalan
By Kylie Moon
SYDNEY — In the early hours of February 17, more than 60 Kurdish protesters occupied the Greek consulate in response to the kidnapping of Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah
Victorian Labor blames teachers
By Mary Merkenich
MELBOURNE — Earlier this month, Victorian ALP leader John Brumby announced his "zero tolerance" education policy. The policy attacks teachers, ignores the real causes of illiteracy and is much
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