Franc falls, is US dollar far behind?
By Stephen Millies
NEW YORK — "Money does not smell", wrote the Roman historian Tacitus nearly 20 centuries ago. Whether or not this is true, money has to represent value. This is the root of the
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By Karen Fredericks
Last week in the South Australian Supreme Court Justice Derek Bollen, known for his "rougher than usual handling" judgment in a rape in marriage case last year, held that a survivor of domestic violence who killed her
Working the land they own
The hidden face of land rights in NT
By Alex Cooper
The current public debate over the High Court's Mabo ruling has brought many racists out of the woodwork who claim that Aboriginal land rights will hold back
By Pip Hinman
Paul Keating's H.V. Evatt lecture last April — his first detailed public statement on Labor's "republican vision" — was awash with pronouncements about "reconciliation" with Aborigines, entreaties to forge a so-called
Prison campaign continues
By Bronwen Beechey
MELBOURNE — An inquiry by the Victorian Equal Opportunity Board into discrimination against women prisoners is to go ahead despite the failure of an injunction aimed at preventing the removal
South African Women's Day celebrated
By Jane White
PERTH — Working together, with much laughter and harmony, the ANC Support Group and Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (WACARE) women's day committee welcomed over 120 comrades and
By Paula Nassif
"We're not being protected ... those who are supposed to protect people from poison, just have not done the job... By and large, they're in bed; in cahoots with those doing the polluting." This damning comment was made by
A meeting held here on August 2 attracted about 40 women to re-launch the Women's Liberation Organisation. The meeting flowed out of a forum held last June, which attracted 120 women, to discuss the fragmented state of the women's liberation
US/UN out of Somalia!
The United Nations/United States "peacekeeping" mission in Somalia stands exposed for the grisly farce it is.
In a joint statement addressed last week to the UN Secretary General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 26
The Piano
Written and Directed by Jane Campion
Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
Reviewed by Noel Hester
Who says that Australia doesn't have aspirations to be a regional colonial power? First, they plundered
Bloodlines
Kev Carmody
Festival Records
Reviewed by Ignatius Kim
The journey that Kev Carmody embarked on early this year with the EP Streetbeat is continued with his third album, Bloodlines.
Originally a journey through
Victorian plan to scrap civil juries
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — The Kennett government is considering plans to scrap juries in civil cases. Draft legislation has been produced by the attorney general's department and will be considered
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