Murder investigation sparks backlash against women
By Corinne Glenn
PERTH — The disappearance of one woman, and the murder of two others from Claremont, a wealthy suburb, over the past 15 months has sparked a regressive "safety" campaign.
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By Doug Lorimer
The lack of financial accountability of MPs revealed by the "Colston affair" highlights the fact that — contrary to the myths perpetuated by establishment political commentators in the capitalist media and in academia, as well
By Sean Healy
With preparations for the May 8 joint staff-student national day of action well under way, indications are very positive for a considerable student campaign against the implementation of fees and cuts on campus. In the four weeks
Public meeting on Aboriginal rights
By Matt Wilson
ADELAIDE — The federal government assault on native title is the endgame of the assault on Aboriginal rights since European invasion, a public meeting on the Wik debate and Aboriginal
By Tony Iltis
HOBART — Tasmania's Legislative Council has finally agreed, in principle, to repeal the state's notorious laws which make homosexuality an imprisonable offence. At the time of writing, however, the upper house was still debating
Reprinted here is an abridged version of Pam Corkery's February 20 maiden speech to the New Zealand parliament. Corkery left her 19-year career in broadcasting to stand for the Alliance in the October general election. Her media career — in both
A grand sweep of history and class conflict
World's Endby T. Coraghessan BoyleBloomsbury, 1996. 456 pp., $16.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon
If the obsessively introspective focus of most novels these days either puts you to sleep or has you
New US nukes targeted at Third World
By David Muller
The US government is stepping up the technological and nuclear arms race against the Third World. In early April, six radar-evading B-2 "Stealth" bombers were officially commissioned into
By Chow Wei Cheng
The Wallis Inquiry recommendations, released on April 9, head back towards the days of 19th century unfettered capitalism. While Wallis recognises that bank profitability is already in the "middle to upper range", the thrust of
Belgian troops tortured, murdered Somalis
By Norm Dixon
Leaked photographs and eyewitness accounts reveal that elite Belgian paratroopers assigned to the United Nations US-led "Operation Restore Hope" mission in Somalia in 1993 engaged in
Events like the mass suicides of cult members in California recently are symptoms of an acute social sickness of extreme conditions of human alienation.
There are other, more "ordinary", examples of this alienation in our daily lives. These
Get on the BusDirected by Spike LeeWritten by Reggie Rock BythewoodWith Charles Dutton, Ossie Davis, Andre Braugher, DeAundre Bonds, Thomas Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall, Harry Lennix, Hill Harper, Bernie Mac, Wendell Pierce, Roger Guenveur
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