When Paul Keating thanked the "true believers" in Labor for re-electing his government on March 13, he was met with a wild ovation from the loyal crowd at the Bankstown Leagues Club. But PETER BOYLE asks: what is the worth of his promise to
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By Catherine Brown
Last year the Italian government announced plans for extensive privatisation of government-owned industry. Now, the prime targets for privatisation are in the thick of a massive corruption scandal. All major state companies
By Norm Dixon
The United States government is "a major and flagrant human rights violator" which is "perpetrating terror on its own citizens" through its frequent use of the death penalty, Rick Halperin, chairperson of Amnesty International
Secret radioactive dumping in Pacific
WASHINGTON — Reports from the European press that the Soviet Navy secretly dumped nuclear reactors and radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan indicate a more damaging nuclear legacy of the Cold War
One False Move
Directed by Carl Franklin
Written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson
With Bill Paxton and Lynda Williams
Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey
This is a powerful movie from a new African American director, Carl Franklin. It's
Delivering
According to George Campbell, national secretary of the Automotive, Metals and Engineering Union, "we can never again allow the trade union movement to become so weak that large sections of it are dependent upon a Labor government
By Karen Fredericks
The planned launch of War of the Sexes, a book on how to find and marry a Filipina woman, was thwarted by the angry response of Filipina women in Perth last month. The author of the book, Kenneth Morgan, was inundated with
Handbook for activists
By Stephen Bavaro
SYDNEY — The Activists Defence Network (ADN) will soon be launching the Activists Defence Handbook.
A spokesperson for the ADN says that the handbook will be available by late March or early
South Africa fuels Rwanda civil war
Copies of two invoices received by the Oslo-based World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa reveal that arms and ammunition worth around US$6 million were sold to the
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