BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
Between Two WorldsAt the National ArchivesKelsey Crescent, Millner, DarwinTuesdays and Wednesdays 9am-noon, until May 31Group bookings at other times by appointment
DARWIN — In 1939, the year Prime Minister John Howard was
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BY ROWAN CAHILL
During September 2000, prior to the Sydney Olympic Games and the Melbourne S11 protests, the Howard government, supported by the ALP, passed the Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill, which clears the way
REVIEW BY SUE BOLAND
Disaffected Democracies: what's troubling the trilateral countries?Edited by Susan J. Pharr & Roberto D. PutnamPrinceton University Press 2000362 pp, US$19.95
After declaring that "Democracy itself has triumphed as a result
BY JAL NICHOLL & SAM KING
ADELAIDE — While students may have been embracing anti-corporate activism during university orientation weeks, the official festivities have often become appalling mixtures of apoliticism and corporatisation — they
BY SUE BOLAND
The quality of the majority of women's lives in the next few years will largely hinge on the success or failure of the international movement against neo-liberal globalisation.
Neo-liberal policies such as privatisation of
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — The women of Australia can expect an earful from the Labor Party over the next six to nine months. Indeed, the wooing has already begun.
More ALP women hold seats in the Queensland parliament than ever before, boasted
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — In a corner of a building that once housed the Australian Federal Police, a new group of decidedly more radical tenants committed themselves to vastly different aims when they opened Geelong's new Resistance Centre on
If the women's liberation movement is to succeed, it needs to be organised
and led by women. There are a lot of ways that men can support and participate
in women's liberation movement, but running for women's officer is not
one of them.
BY LOWITJA O'DONAGHUE
[Desperate to "prove" that the genocidal policy of separating Aboriginal children from their parents was essentially "humane" the establishment press embarked on an outrageous beat up on February 22, based on an interview with
BY ROHAN PEARCE
A growing mood of active opposition to corporate globalisation is emerging among Australia's university students, if campus "orientation weeks" are anything to judge by. The socialist youth organisation Resistance has joined over
BY ANTHONY BENBOW
PORT HEDLAND — "BHP posted out 537 workplace agreements. We've got over 400 of them piled here in the union office, still in the envelopes. We expect another 70 or so when people return from annual leave. Probably 20 more were
If you can't beat them ... I
"I hope we have moved on from keeping the bastards honest to also giving them a few good ideas." — Democrats leader Meg Lees defending her record on February 28.
If you can't beat them ... II
"If I wanted to be
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