BY PETER BOYLE
An important aspect of the September 11-13 protests (S11) against the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Melbourne — which made them politically more advanced than the earlier Seattle and Washington protests — was the relative
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BY JIM GREEN
The Australian Conservation Foundation's recently released document "Natural Advantage: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Australia" provides a forward-looking vision for a clean, green economy and, in the process, renders obsolete the
BY SIMON BUTLER
Last week's National Roundtable Forum in Canberra was billed by the federal government as the start of new drive to seriously tackle the poverty, discrimination and social dysfunction endemic to many Aboriginal communities.
Of
On October 23, a deadly cholera epidemic in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province claimed its 31st victim. More than 3600 cases have been reported since the outbreak began in mid-August.
On October 24, national spokesperson for the National Health
Budiman demands supreme court intervention
On October 24, the chairperson of the People's Democratic Party (PRD), Budiman Sujatmiko, went to the Supreme Court to protest against the handling of the party's case against former President Suharto and
REVIEW BY SHANE HOPKINSON
The Houseparty: A Politically Correct Love StoryBy Winsome HawthorneSubversion PressWrite to PO Box 183, Kurrajong, NSW 2758 or <subversion@arachnoid.net.au>
A new genre of writing has emerged — the
BY TONY ILTIS& SUSAN PRICE
MELBOURNE — Labor Premier Steve Bracks had lied about protester violence at the S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, a protest of 200 outside the ALP's state conference on October 21 was told.
Paddy
Private privilege
Not owning a BMW is bearable. But having untreated health problems or missing out on a good education can really disadvantage you.
Private privilege in health and education is more repugnant than in most other areas. This is
BY MAURICE SIBELLE
MELBOURNE — Some of the more repressive sections of Victoria's anti-student organisation legislation, enacted by the former Kennett government in 1994, were repealed on October 25, although the Coalition and independents were
BY CAM PARKER
SYDNEY — Workers employed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation held stop-work meetings across the country on October 27 to discuss their response to managing director Jonathan Shier's cuts to the ABC budget.
Shier had
Broken promises
Promise can be defined as an assurance of future benefit. It
is a word often heard in association with information technology, although
in that context it means hope for financial gain.
Some technologies become
The Israeli military machine's current repression against unarmed Palestinian civilians protesting against the Jewish state's colonial occupation of their national homeland has been so brutal that even Israel's chief sponsor, the United States, felt
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