By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Amid bitter protests from miners, teachers and other sections of organised labour, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has begun implementing a program of "reform" designed to wipe the last traces of socialism from the
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ADELAIDE — On November 26, 120 people attended a protest rally over the privatisation of Modbury Hospital. Speakers, led by local residents, called for an ongoing campaign to save the hospital, the most efficient in the state. Lea Stevens from the
Tax the rich
We've had the recession that we had to have and now, just when we thought it was safe to go out, Treasurer Willis, Prime Minister Keating and Reserve Bank governor Fraser are concurring with business economists on the tax increases
A Critical View of Western Journalism and Scholarship on East Timor
By Geoffrey Gunn (with Jefferson Lee)
Journal of Contemporary Asia Publishers, 1994. 271 pp., $25 (pb)
Available by postal order from PO Box 703, Leichhardt 2040
Reviewed by
Oil companies and Timor
My congratulations to the members of Resistance and others, who protested against Gareth Evans' policies at the Park Grand Hotel in Sydney on November 21. Due to taking the kids to school, I arrived late, to find the long
Scientist 'alarmed' over Hinchinbrook go-ahead
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — The use of a recent scientific report to overturn objections to developer Keith Williams' controversial Port Hinchinbrook project was an abuse, an environmental
By Frank Enright
The emperor has no clothes. The sham of the West's so-called peacekeeping operation in Bosnia has been finally stripped bare with the entry into the UN-designated "safe haven" of Bihac by Serb forces. Along the way, the Serbs
By Arun Pradhan
For Helio Tavares of the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT), political life started young. Today a member of UDT's regional directorate, since the age of 16 he has seen his country through a civil war and an invasion by Indonesia.
By Dick Nichols
SYDNEY — Sydney's Leichhardt Oval was the scene on Saturday, December 3, of one of the angriest protest rallies in the city in the last 20 years. As the 747s howled overhead, around 15,000 inner city residents gathered to
By Craig Cormick
Based on highly reliably international contacts, leaked documents and horoscopes from several TV magazines, Nostradamus' Media Watch presents a highly accurate forecast of political events across the globe.
Downer offered
By Chris Martin
SYDNEY — "Yiribana", a word from the Eora language believed to translate as "this way", is the name of a new gallery of Aboriginal art which has opened at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Promotional material claims it to be the
By Stephen Robson
"It's excellent. It's the best outcome in the face of the government's intransigence", Greens (WA) Senator Christabel Chamarette told Green Left Weekly following the decision on November 28 to establish a Senate select
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