By Garry Walters
and Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Sweeping cuts to Victoria's public transport system are being denounced as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Of 14 suburban rail lines, only four appear to have escaped severe
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Snouts in the trough
By Peter Boyle
MELBOURNE — Under Jeff Kennett's new order, austerity is the watchword in the public sector. To underline the point that all are to be hit equally, the premier says that he will do nothing to help
Comment by Norm Dixon and Lisa Macdonald
Under the guise of a "humanitarian mission" to ensure that food reaches starving people, a US-led force of almost 35,000 heavily armed combat troops have firmly entrenched themselves in Somalia.
Polish bill curtails right to abortion
WARSAW — The Polish parliament on January 7 approved a modified anti-abortion bill that permits the termination of pregnancies in certain circumstances, but ends the abortion-on-demand policy of the
By Sean Malloy
More than 110 warplanes, from the United States, France and Britain, were involved in the January 14 attack which bombed at least five places in southern Iraq in half an hour.
The majority of Australian daily newspapers
By Catherine Brown
DUBLIN — Just before Ireland voted on the three-part abortion referendum on November 25, Anne Speed, a trade union organiser and Sinn Fein candidate in the previous election, talked to Green Left Weekly about the last 10
Old structures, new conditions
The Ukraine is facing a "protracted crisis of stagnation", with drawn-out struggles both among and within the former republics of the USSR as "the old bureaucracy and the emerging bourgeoisie" wrestle for the
Moulding the minds of Israeli children
By Miriam Tramer
Izkor (Slaves of Memory), shown at the Israeli film festival at the end of last year, is a film about the way the Israeli education system moulds the minds of young people to
Future of New Left Party uncertain
By Sean Malloy
A national meeting in March may determine whether the New Left Party will continue to exist, according to several prominent members.
Rumours have been circulating in progressive
The real price of oil
Poisoning the earth
By Catherine Brown
Thirty-five kilometres separate Fair Isle from Sumburgh Head, Shetland, a channel used by approximately 1000 tankers a year. A plan, approved by the United Nations
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — After the stirring events of mid-December, when the Congress of People's Deputies managed to sack acting Premier Yegor Gaidar despite Boris Yeltsin's desire to keep him in office, few Russians were expecting
Bleak prospects for Tasmania
By Ben Courtice
HOBART — Unemployment in Tasmania reached 12.6% according to seasonally adjusted figures released on January 14.
This is the highest figure recorded in Australia since monthly surveys
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