By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government will soon present legislation to parliament to give police greater powers. Police will be able to take fingerprints regardless of whether the person objects.
Under current law, police
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Another mine to close?
By Bernie Brian
WOLLONGONG — Coal mining company Denehurst, owner of one of the oldest pits in NSW, has given a new meaning to the phrase "enterprise bargain". It has told 250 employees at the Metropolitan
New Zealand is in the process of shifting to a new electoral system. The new proportional system will mean a greater representation of alternative forces and the erosion of the established parties, argues Keith Locke.
Speaking their language
The Predator
Ice Cube
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Reviewed by John-Paul Nassif
Ice Cube, Amerikkka's most wanted, the nigger you love to hate, is now the Predator. The
Comment by Dave Holmes
Perhaps other GLW readers have, like me, been fascinated by the recent stream of revelations about massive corruption in Italian public life. It seems that just about the entire ruling "political class" of Christian
MADELEINE BLACKWELL, the director of Matebian Nia Lian (Voices of Souls), a play by the East Timorese Cultural Group currently being performed in Melbourne's Theatreworks, believes that the story of East Timor reveals ugly truths about the nature
By Roger Raven
Job creation has been given nothing like the attention that it deserves. No green/democratic/socialist political force will seriously threaten the conservative parties until we can offer credible economic policies to the
Reworking Australia launch
The Charter of "Reworking Australia" will be launched in Sydney and Melbourne on Monday, May 3.
Reworking Australia describes itself as "a new movement committed to social and economic justice, opposition to
Brewer condemned for 'handouts' claim
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Powers Brewery head Bernie Power has run into a storm of criticism for his claim that welfare "handouts" to Aborigines were the cause of alcohol abuse.
On April 19,
Every Australian city has its equivalent of Sydney's western suburbs, a region of the city which is densely populated by predominantly low to middle income earners, isolated, underserviced and with a reputation for juvenile crime and little
John Pilger's Cambodian film
Return to Year Zero, award-winning journalist John Pilger's new documentary on Cambodia, has been screened in Britain. But it will apparently not be seen in Australia in the immediate future. According to a report
Silent protest against Stockdale
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — A group of 60 people with disabilities and supporters of public transport gathered outside the Equal Opportunities Commission on April 23 to protest against the arrival of
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