DIG: The last history of Burke and Wills
A short story by Craig Cormick
ROBERT O'HARA BURKE waves his top hat triumphantly and leads Mr Wills and Mr King into the fortified stockade at Cooper's Creek. They've covered the last hundred miles with
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SBS to screen new Jabiluka doco
As the final decision of the listing of Kakadu National Park on the "World Heritage in danger" list approaches on July 12, SBS is to screen Cathy Henkel's documentary Walking Through a Minefield. Narrated by film
By Mary Merkenich and Norrian Rundle
MELBOURNE — Australian Education Union (AEU) members at two state schools have taken action over moves to privatise state schools. Sandringham Secondary College and Blackburn High School are in the front line
Iraq sanctions: a crime against humanity
By Susan Wareham
WALID spends most of his time on the streets of Baghdad. He is 14 years old and shines shoes each day to earn a meagre existence for his mother and brothers. If he had been born 10 years
The theft of Telstra
The Senate vote to privatise more of Telstra is another theft of public assets and is not in the interests of consumers or telecommunications workers.
Last year, Telstra made a net profit of $3 billion, and it is expected to
24-hour strike at Email plants
By Shane Bentley
MORE THAN 5000 workers employed by whitegoods manufacturer Email took part in a 24-hour stoppage on June 17. The stoppage affected all 22 Email plants across the country, except the largest, in
Albury residents protest against freeway
By Karen Burns
CANBERRA — Sixty people travelled from Albury on the NSW-Victoria border to Parliament House on June 21 to protest against the federal government's refusal to consider alternatives to
Kashmir: freedom struggle confronts barbarism
By Eva Cheng
Most establishment media reports portray the military confrontation in Kashmir as simply a border conflict between India and Pakistan. This ignores the aspirations and the persistent
Toot this and toot that
I think it goes like this: everything passes, everything changes, everything dies. Except in the original French, it had a line of toutes in it — being, as it were, a French thing to say. But my linguistic skills are
Candlelight march for political prisoners
By Rohan Gaiswinkler
DARWIN — A rally, candlelight march through the city streets and an overnight vigil outside the Indonesian consulate took place here on June 19-20. The events, organised by the East
Serbia under Milosevic: politics in the 1990sBy Robert ThomasHurst & Company, London, 1999 Review by Chris Slee
Slobodan Milosevic has been in control of Serbia since 1987. This book deals with his rise to power and the political struggles that
Anti-GST rallies around the country
Thirty people attended an anti-GST rally organised by the Greens at parliament in Canberra on June 21, Karen Burns reports. Several speakers addressed them on the GST's impact. Greens Senator Bob Brown said that
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