By Zanny Begg
From December 7 to 11, delegates to the national conference of the National Union of Students will be gathering in Ballarat. It's a pivotal conference, one which finds Labor stronger and the left weaker than in many years. The time
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What are they going to do with your life?
It's the end of the year, a time when many of us are considering our "life options" — what the hell we're going to do next year. Despite all the hot air about Australia being "free" and everything being
By Alex Bainbridgeand Joshua Kelcey
HOBART — The Tasmanian Labor government of Jim Bacon brought down its first budget on November 5. Unusual in these days of economic rationalism, the largest funding increase was for education; spending on
UN decision a win for anti-Jabiluka campaign
By Francesca Davis
Decisions by the United Nations World Heritage Committee represent an opportunity to strengthen the campaign to stop Jabiluka uranium mine, Australian Conservation Foundation
No cobwebs on this radical
Something Borrowed, Something NewCountry Joe McDonaldBig BeatTo order, visit <http://www.countryjoe.com>. Review by Barry Healy
"Country Joe! Where's he been all these years?", older Green Left readers may
Maths lesson
"Twenty per cent loading for women means nothing when Labor thugs follow zero per cent of the rules." — Susie Carleton, defeated in a NSW ALP preselection ballot after the party's credentials committee excluded 36 votes from a branch
Splash ... gurgle ... gurgle
A new year is soon to be born, remain with us for 12 months and then, I'm sure, depart like all the others. But the one that is soon to leave us, this year of 1998, was it a good year as good years go, do you think?
Solidarity from the other side of the world
By Lynda Hansen
BRISBANE — A mammoth music fest to raise funds for victims of hurricane Mitch in Central America is being organised by Radio 4ZZZ, IWW and the Paddington Workers Club. Funds raised
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NSW transport plan
The State Government's Integrated Transport Plan is a cynical exercise in futility. It utterly fails to address the issue of traffic congestion in Sydney in any meaningful way.
Building more
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm. Ph 9565 5522.
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Where does the money come from?
By Allen Myers
When we consider the huge wealth of people like Kerry Packer or Westfield tsar Frank Lowy or corporations like BHP, the question naturally arises: where and how did they get all this money? The
Choose to fight back
A life which means something
By Sean Healy
If these were the extent of our choices — life on the dole, exploitation in the work force or an expensive (non)-education at a university — then life wouldn't look great.
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