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Training plan 'a dressed up dole scheme'

By Pip Hinman "The ALP has stolen most of our industrial relations policies — so why don't they take the rest of the package?", asked John Howard, opposition industrial relations spokesperson, on March 10. Howard was commenting on the Labor

Youth reject work for dole proposals

By Maree Sutton A survey by the Australian Youth Institute, a private think-tank funded by Pepsi Cola and Arthur Andersen & Co, hit the headlines last week with claims that young people support some type of work for the dole. While the

People are not the problem

A reply by Allen Myers The article to which Jenny Goldie refers was not an editorial, but a Viewpoint by Marina Carman, a member of the Environmental Youth Alliance. However, Jenny Goldie's arguments obviously concern more than that one article,

Nazi thugs chased out of Brunswick

Nazi thugs chased out of Brunswick By Dave Holmes MELBOURNE — Some 30 neo-nazi toughs trying to hold a "white power" demonstration in multicultural, inner-city Brunswick on March 12 got more than they bargained for. For hours they were

Theatre on the grand scale

Dead Heart By Nicholas Parsons Directed by Neil Armfield Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Reviewed by Helen Jarvis Acres of red dust trucked in from the outback set the stage for a gripping account of the clash of cultures and laws —

Uprising sweeps away apartheid puppet

By Norm Dixon PRETORIA, March 12 — "Bop breaks down — Judgment Day", "There is no government in Bop", "Mangope, beware the ides of March!". These were just some of the homemade signs carried by 20,000 angry Bophuthatswana residents and

Images without history

As It Happened: USSR SBS-TV, Thursday, March 17, 8:30pm (8 Adelaide) Reviewed by Paul Oboohov The events in Russia of recent years have led to the growing availability and exposure of never-seen-before archival film footage, and this series

Les Taylor

Les Taylor MELBOURNE — Les Taylor died from AIDS peacefully at home on March 8. Les, a long-time member of the Democratic Socialist Party (then the Socialist Workers Party), was an activist in the Hospital Employees Federation and Central

Looking out: That's not rain

That's not rain By Brandon Astor Jones "The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it." — Orestes A. Brownson

Write on

Unbalancing act It could be the start of a science fiction story; record floods in Europe, massive forest fires in America and Australia, unheard of drought in the North American prairies (over now), prolonged drought in Australia. Measurable

Population: a criticism from AESP

Comment by Jenny Goldie I refer to your editorial "Population: no simplistic solutions" of February 16. I was the representative of Australians for an Ecologically Sustainable Population (AESP) speaking on Triple J recently with Paul Ehrlich.

New evidence on bleach and HIV

By Michael Arnold One of the strongest, most publicised messages from AIDS education campaigns has been that if IV drug users do not have their own clean fits, needles and syringes can be cleaned using the 2*water 2*bleach 2*water method.