By Peter Boyle
The establishment press celebrated "middle Australia" on October 30. The Australian Institute of Family Studies, they happily reported, had confirmed that "middle Australia" was alive and well and quite happy with its lot.
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Soweto Flying Squad
SBS television
Tuesday, November 16, 8.30 p.m. (8 in Adelaide)
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
Soweto Flying Squad, a documentary by Britain's respected Channel 4, is a more sophisticated version of the many, mainly US-made,
Playing God
The announcement that 20,000 Chinese students and their families, living in Australia at the time of the Tienanmen Square massacre, have been granted residency is a welcome one. Australia is doing no more than honouring a moral duty
By John Helmer
MOSCOW — Russian officials in charge of parliamentary elections due on December 12 have revealed details of procedures that will give significant advantages to supporters of President Boris Yeltsin.
If US Secretary of State
By Ana Kailis
AUCKLAND — New Zealanders have sent a clear message to the two major parties that neither is trusted to govern in its own right. The November 6 election has resulted in neither Labour nor National having a majority in the new
Perth residents fight freeway
By Anne Pavy
PERTH — The City Northern Bypass is a freeway link proposed by the state Liberal government to run across the northern edge of the Perth central area. The government claims that it will help
By Martin Khor
BANGALORE — Half a million Indian farmers took part in a day-long procession and rally in this south Indian city on October 2 to protest against proposals in the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
QUITO — Schools throughout Ecuador have been closed since October 4 by a strike of more than 100,000 teachers.
The teachers, one of the largest groups of public sector employees, are asking for a 50% pay rise, which the government of Sixto
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — As campaigning for Russia's parliamentary elections gathered pace in the final days of October, two of the country's main opposition newspapers remained suspended. Another national daily was under heavy government
By Sean Healy
BRUSSELS—Plans by Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene for a social pact with the trade unions to enforce austerity suffered a major setback when 100,000 protesting workers took to the streets on October 29.
The
National women's conference
By Lara Pullin
CANBERRA — CAPOW!, the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women!, is a new networking body which is establishing itself as a powerful force for the more than 50 national
Seventy-seven years ago this week, the workers and peasants of Russia "stormed heaven", renewing the revolutionary process which capitalism thought it had crushed in the Paris Commune of 1871. Two years ago, the attempted Stalinist coup in Moscow
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