By Andrey Spark ALICE SPRINGS — The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party government is trying to privatise Yirara College, a public secondary college here for Aboriginal people. It proposes to hand the college over to the Lutheran Finke
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By Peter Anderson SYDNEY — Environmentalists and supporters of Aboriginal rights will rally outside state parliament on Friday, November 13, to oppose the government's resource security legislation. The legislation would in effect privatise
By Chris Spindler ADELAIDE — Grand Prix time has to be one of the most wasteful, stinking, noisy, dangerous and hateful weekends to spend in Adelaide. There are fly-overs of air force planes, every shop displaying "their" car
How Cuba is tackling the energy crisis By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "One thing Cuba has to be grateful the US blockade for", Cuban environmental scientist Rolando Alfredo Hernandez Leon told a forum here on November 4. "It's taught us to be
By Ray Fulcher MELBOURNE — "Nine years of concessions under the ALP-ACTU Accord have left the unions seriously weakened. Labor politicians continue to assure big business that they can better deliver wage cuts and industrial peace", said
By Peter Boyle Kennett's unabashed class partisanship ("Ours will be a pro-business government", he promised before the elections) is making even the federal opposition nervous. John Howard thinks Kennett should have declared his intention to
LIDY ALEJANDERO is secretary-general of BAYAN (New Patriotic Alliance) in the Philippines. In Sydney for an Australian-Philippines solidarity conference, Alejandero was interviewed for Green Left by MAX LANE. Question: Could you explain just
Take Two: The Criminal Justice System Revisited By Tim Anderson Bantam, 1992. 376 pp. $34.95 Reviewed by John Tognolini Tim Anderson's new book is a stunning portrait of a police vendetta and an insight into this country's criminal justice
Clinton and Gore, Clinton and Gore — Both of them born after the war! They're not liberals, like before — Technocratic, to the core. Clinton and Gore, Clinton and Gore. — from a poem by Calvin Trillin By Peter Anderson The
Victoria Police racist, says ex-adviser By Alex Cooper MELBOURNE — The former Koori adviser to the Victoria Police, Ken Saunders, who resigned his position last month because of the "inherent racism in the police force", has accused the
Life on a string A film directed by Chen Kaige Starring Liu Zhongyuan and Huang Lei Reviewed by Wayne Ruscoe Two blind musicians wander an achingly beautiful landscape, searching for spiritual salvation or, at least, the return of the power
Vince Jones blows Greenpeace's trumpet Popular Australian jazz trumpeter Vince Jones' latest album, Future Girl, is to be launched with several shows at Sydney's Harbourside Brasserie. The album and shows feature Vince's commitment to the
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