By Lisa Macdonald Despite the large number of small progressive parties and independents contesting the federal elections on March 2, the vote for these alternatives was relatively low. The Australian Democrats, promoted by the establishment media
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By Pip Hinman The big business press has been playing up incoming PM John Howard's "mandate" to encourage him to fast-track the deregulation of the labour market and micro-economic "reform" (as well as dump many of his pre-election promises). But
Bongo FuryBongo FuryIndependentReviewed by Jenny Long Bongo Fury, the first album from Ray Pereira's Melbourne-based band, draws together the rhythms and sounds from countries and cultures that connect drumming with community life. The band's music,
By Bill Mason BRISBANE It only took a week for the revelation that Queensland is returning to the bad old days of Bjelke-Petersen, former Democratic Socialist candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane Zanny Begg told Green Left Weekly. The secret
Choices: Soul Mothers — Women facing parenthood alone talk about support networks, custodial issues and money. Sole mothers are often disadvantaged, whether working or on the pension. Choices will be relayed to 28 community radio stations around
By Norman Solomon The news should have caused a national uproar. In a decision with momentous implications, the new World Trade Organisation ruled that the US law known as the Clean Air Act is unacceptable because of restrictions it places on
Election Aftermath: Woe Is Me Let us face facts. Coffee has shattered our nerves; takeaways make us slaves to indigestion; Joseph Stalin has made us shrink from the name of socialism, and has destroyed, in the more refined part of the community (of
By Natalie Woodlock HOBART — Students at Sorell High School have come under criticism from John Bednall, a columnist for the Mercury, and others for defying a rule which bans male and female students from holding hands or playing sport together
Not the church, not the state In Latin America, debate is raging over reproductive rights. According to an article titled "The Gender Wars" in the January-February issue of NACLA: Report on the Americas, the debate has participants from widely
By Jennifer Thompson The immediate costs of the four suicide bombings carried out in the last fortnight by groups in the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are plain to see. While the Israeli political establishment has
By Tom Flanagan Environmental organisations held a national phone hook-up on March 5 to discuss action against the Howard government's plans for open slather uranium mining. The discussion included people from the Northern Territory Environment
NEWCASTLE — The notion that feminism is irrelevant in the '90s is being challenged on Newcastle University. After a period of several years without a prominent feminist presence on campus, a group of inspired women who recognise that the fight for
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