Keating's privatisation push threatens jobs and environment
When Prime Minister Paul Keating met with state premiers in the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on August 19 they claimed to be discussing a new national competition
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By Kekuni Blaisdell
1993 marked the centennial of the 1893 United States' armed invasion of Hawai'i. On January 17 more than 12,000 indigenous Hawaiians, or Kanaka Maoli, joined a sovereignty rally expressing their outrage at the invasion and
Sea World protest
By Nathan Laurent
BRISBANE — More than 70 people staged a demonstration outside the Gold Coast tourist attraction Sea World, on August 17. This follows the recent capture of two wild dolphins from South Stradbroke
By Richard Startari
As Ernesto Samper takes over the Colombian presidency, Amnesty International has called on him to live up to his election promises and respect international law and human rights.
Successive Colombian governments have
By Christina Peebles
Following a proposal by NSW electricity supplier, Pacific Power in 1993, to construct a 132 kV transmission line from Lismore to Mullumbimby on the NSW north coast, a large section of the local community questioned the need
A Room of One's Own
Adapted by Patrick Garland from the book by Virginia Woolf
Directed by Lois Ellis
Staring Pamela Rabe
Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, August 9-28 and Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne, September 7 to October 1
Reviewed
By Irina Glushchenko
MOSCOW — After more than five weeks, a picket placed by environmentalists on one of Russia's worst industrial polluters came to an end on August 7. Defying harassment from local authorities, the protesters outside the
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The Democratic Socialist Party review (GLW #154) avoids a rational analysis of the Labour Party — offering a conspiracy theory in its place. The tone is set in the introduction to Max Lane's "daring to win" article: "As the ALP's
Cuba opposes US-led invasion of Haiti
By Francesca Davidson
SYDNEY — "I am convinced that the United States' plans to invade Haiti are directly related to the possibility of intervention in Cuba," Marcellino Fajardo, the Cuban Consul
By Anthony Brown
BRISBANE — After the receivers moved in on his Hamilton Island resort in 1992, infamous Queensland developer Keith Williams started looking around for another part of North Queensland in which to open up his brand of tourism.
Hairy Beanstalk performance cafe
By Freya Pinney
WOLLONGONG — If you're into poetry reading with a pot of tea, drama sketches with a smoothie or even acoustic blues with some apple pie, then the Hairy Beanstalk Performance Cafe is for
By Jon Land
Demonstrations were held across Australia in support of East Timor on August 17, Indonesian Independence Day. East Timor solidarity groups chose the date to highlight the ongoing illegal occupation of East Timor by Indonesia and the
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