By Frank Enright
Despite a promising start to peace talks between Papua New Guinea and Bougainville Interim Government representatives in the Solomon Islands, the meetings have been called off. After two meetings, and in breach of a signed
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Coroner slams police over death
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A report into the first of seven deaths at the hands of police between 1988 and 1989 was released by the coroner on June 20. The coroner slammed police actions during a raid on
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Not so long ago, many Russians still believed that if they embraced capitalism, foreign investment would pour in to help modernise and expand their country's decrepit factories.
That's a suggestion the new
By Jon Land
A controversial report released in the US has exposed funding of the Indonesian military through World Bank loans. These loans have the full backing of the US government, which has the controlling vote over World Bank projects.
By Norm Dixon
JOHANNESBURG — It was like a scene out of an old news reel from the dimmest, darkest days of apartheid: big, burly, white city council security officers — armed with bulldozers and sledge hammers, mouthing racist and derogatory
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliable international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from the leading TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Iceman
By Anthony Brown
Filipina women in violent relationships with Australian men are often not aware of their rights, according to a Brisbane social worker who works with migrant women.
Since 1980, 17 Filipina women and four children have been
What impact do women parliamentarians have on the struggle for gender equality? Four women from different countries and different political backgrounds discussed their experiences at the International Green Left Conference held in Sydney over Easter.
By David Finkel
As a commercial enterprise, the success of World Cup 1994 appears assured. Stands will be packed to capacity or very nearly so. Even more important is the extraction of maximum revenues from World Cup corporate sponsorships,
By Sue Bolton
MELBOURNE — At a time when many workers have begun to think that there is no alternative to the corporate-style union approach of giving up working conditions for a pittance of a wage rise, one union has shown that it is possible
SA nurses reject wage freeze
ADELAIDE — The SA branch of the Australian Nurses Federation has rejected the wage freeze proposed by the state Liberal government in its May financial statement.
The ANF federal executive reported to
Scoundrels
It is not just the radical left that recognises the relationship between existing deep-seated social problems and unemployment. Writing in an April issue of the Sydney Morning Herald, journalist Geoff Kitney stated that the Liberal
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