By Laszlo Andor BUDAPEST — As the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development held its assembly here last month, and its leader Jacques Attali pointed out the advantages of the Hungarian path to a free market, one-third of Hungarian
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By Sally Low and Peter Annear The resignation of finance minister Andrzej Olechowski again signals the inability of the fractured Polish parliament to form a workable government or adopt an acceptable economic policy in the face of depression and
By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — The lesbian and gay community now have a new paper. Called Brother Sister, it hit the streets on May 1, combining local and international news, reviews, information on health and other issues, humour and social
Reprinted here are major portions of a talk given by Dr PETER BOTSMAN in Port Macquarie last month. Dr Botsman is executive director of the Evatt Foundation. His talk was occasioned by the NSW government's plan to privatise the Port Macquarie Base
Beatrice goes underground Breathing Under Water Directed by Susan Murphy Dermody Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen Why on earth has humanity set the stage for its own extinction? In Breathing Under Water, the question is explored in a circular
The executive board of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union in the US released the following statement on May 6. We have abridged it slightly. Sunday's White House statement blaming social programs of the 1960s for the Los
Car workers reject package ADELAIDE — 4000 workers at Holden's Elizabeth plant, covered by the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, Metal and Engineering Workers Union, Federated Clerks Union and the Electrical Trades Union have voted to
By Roger Raven PERTH — Premier Carmen Lawrence's recent announcement that 40-49%. of the Rural and Industries Bank is to be flogged off is a familiar litany — privatisation of profit, socialisation of cost. Although Lawrence's statement
More like melodrama "It's a tragedy for all Australia." — An Associated Pulp and Paper Mills executive on the recent defeat of resource security legislation in the Senate. APPM said the defeat had led it to scrap plans to build a $1.2 billion
By Irina Glushchenko and Boris Kagarlitsky MOSCOW — How big a bribe do you have to pay if you want some service performed by an employee of the Moscow mayor's office? Ten per cent of the total value of the business involved. This figure
Poor vote for British Greens British Green Party national council member Penny Kemp says the party's poor result in the recent national elections was due to a move to the right and an undue concentration on electoral politics. The party lost
CSIRO finds sea levels rising For the first time in the southern hemisphere, there is evidence that the deep ocean has increased in temperature, resulting in a sea level rise. The CSIRO reported on May 13 that its oceanographers had found
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