By Frank Noakes
Ralph Nader, the world's best-known consumer rights advocate, visited Australia as the guest of the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations earlier this month. The talented lawyer, who successfully pushed for the
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By Ian Harrison
In the six years of the Bougainville war, the Australian government has directly invested over $200 million into the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF). According to Department of Defence information, around 100
ALICE SPRINGS — Aboriginal women, friends and supporters will gather on October 27 to celebrate the survival of Aboriginal women's law and culture. The celebrations will be hosted by the Alukura Council, which has designed, planned and developed
Judgmental judges
Only last week in Wollongong, a judge, convicting a man of assault against his spouse, used the opportunity to pass judgment on the female victim of the violence instead. In this particular case, three years earlier the
SA teachers fight cuts
By Adam Hanieh
ADELAIDE — The South Australian Institute of Teachers has promised to continue industrial action over the state government's $22 million education cuts.
Teachers in South
By Chris Slee
MELBOURNE — About 60 people attended the launching here on October 14 of Macedonia: Its Disputed History, by Neil Simpson.
The book provides a brief overview of Macedonia's complex history, giving a background to
KATH GELBER discusses the issues raised in a controversial new book, Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the battle over Women's Freedom, by Janice G. Raymond. The book is published by Spinifex Press, at a recommended retail price of
Graham Greene: The Man Within
By Michael Shelden
Heinemann, 1994. 537 pp., $45 (hb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The left has got Graham Greene entirely wrong. According to Shelden's biography, Greene was no friend of
Twenty-seven years ago this month, Ernesto "Che" Guevara died, murdered by rangers in the village of Higuera, Bolivia. Jorge Jorquera argues that more than any other symbol of the 1960s, El Che should be remembered.
To the Argentineans,
Jim McIlroy continues a debate
Roger Clarke (GLW #162) correctly describes isolation from the working class as the key problem facing the socialist movement today. In his article entitled "Isolation from the workers: the real prison for
By Angela Matheson
As a clothing machinist in Manila unable to feed and house her small son, Susie accepted a job offer of sex work in Sydney. "I am here", she says, "to work hard, and in six months I will go home and buy a house and have
By Chow Wei-Cheng
LONDON — As support for the Tory government continues to dwindle, Tony Blair, the new, young leader of the British Labour Party, made his debut at the Labour Party's annual conference in Blackpool.
Blair and
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