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Beyond the elections At a time of rising anger against the two major parties, in particular the Labor Party, many people are looking around for a progressive alternative. The many Labor betrayals on so many important issues will, we hope, result
Buka figure disappears A prominent leader and pro-secessionist on the northern Bougainville island of Buka, Dennis Sareke, has disappeared. Great fears are held for his safety. The news of Sareke's disappearance was bought to the attention
The Contract State: Public Management and the Kennett Government Edited by John Alford and Deirdre O'Neill Deakin University Press: 1994 Reviewed by Chris Slee "Two years after being elected, the Kennett government has already begun to
JIM O'DONNELL is a member of the Democratic Left (DL) in Ireland and an organiser of the New European Left Forum. He was interviewed for Green Left Weekly in Brussels by SARAH STEPHEN and CHOW WEI CHENG. Can you describe how the New European
ADELAIDE — Miscellaneous Workers Union members have lifted bans imposed on public hospitals after four weeks of industrial action. Workers have been fighting for a $20 wage increase and a further $48 over the next two years. After threatening a
ACT Greens in federal by-election By Gosta Lynga CANBERRA — The ACT Greens are standing James Warden, environmentalist, historian of politics and writer, as their candidate in the March 25 by-election for the seat of Canberra, formerly
By Antonio Paneque Brizuelas RAMSEY CLARK entered the Cuban Red Cross building in Havana, where a shipment of insulin from the US company Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals was handed over in a modest ceremony. The first question put to him when we sat
As the head of the Greens' Legislative Council ticket, long-term peace and environmental activist IAN COHEN has a good chance of being elected the first Green member of the NSW parliament on March 25. (He missed out by only a few hundred votes in the
Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences By James R. Mellow Hodder & Stoughton, 1994. 704 pp., $29.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Ernest Hemingway: a splendid storyteller, but a pity about the politics. After reading Mellow's biography of
UNSW staff vote to support student strike By Helen Jarvis The academic staff union at UNSW has voted to support the National Day of Action on March 23, by cancelling classes and holding a stop-work meeting. A well-attended meeting of
For Mary McNish, secretary of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties, the "frightening thing" about the recent escalation in law-and-order hysteria "is that the government sees that it's their right to interfere with the hard-won justice system we've
By Margaret Gleeson ADELAIDE — An amendment to the Metal Trades Federation of Unions' (MTFU) national executive recommendation, which would have set a minimum of 15% for wage increases sought in enterprise agreements, was narrowly defeated at