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Life of Riley: Me Darcy, you Jane

Me Darcy, you Jane "It is a truth universally acknowledged", wrote Jane Austen, "that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife". This notion is the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice — a book which appeared

Next issue: July 17

Because so many contributors and sellers of Green Left Weekly will be going to Melbourne for the Resistance National Conference July 5-7, we are skipping an issue. The next Green Left will be dated July 17.

Indonesian meeting calls for East Timor solidarity

By Nico Warouw On July 26, almost 200 Indonesians living in Sydney attended a public meeting in Marrickville organised by a newly formed organisation, Forum Solidaritas Australia Indonesia (FSAI, Indonesia-Australia Solidarity Forum). Speakers

Hundreds attend East Timor solidarity conference

By Rebecca Meckelburg SYDNEY — The success of the East Timor: its future in the Asia Pacific conference, held June 21-24, was indicated by the attendance of more than 350 people, including 80 international guests. Another very positive outcome,

Grab for NSW forests

By Liam Mitchell SYDNEY — Over the next few weeks, the NSW government will conclude the Interim assessment process to confirm which areas of native forest will be protected from logging. This is the second stage of the government's forest

Howard the beatable

By Dick Nichols As John Howard faces his first wave of protest from students and education workers, building and waterside workers, his response shows that he's not yet confident of success. Faced with broad fronts like that of university

Tasmanian teachers prepare to strike

HOBART — Tasmanian teachers are stepping up their industrial campaign with the first ever strike-for-pay. Angry at the second lowest wage rates for teachers in the country, the Australian Education Union has announced rolling strike action

Secret pollution

By Lisa Macdonald On June 21 Greenpeace released Dioxin Factories, the first major report documenting dioxin pollution in Australia, and called on the federal government to legislate immediately for a national pollutant inventory. The establishment

... and ain't i a woman? Women's right to education

Gaining access to education is one of the cornerstones of achieving women's liberation. Currently women make up over half the students in Australian tertiary institutions. This has led Ian Dobson, a senior academic at Monash University, to argue that

The vicious clown

As It Happened: The Last God-KingProduced by Jim Gerrand SBS, Thursday, July 11, 8.30pm (8 in SA)Reviewed by Eva Cheng Being remnants of a social system that has no place at all in today's globally operated capitalism, monarchs — notwithstanding

Slaves of fashion: outworkers in the garment industry

Slaves of fashion: outworkers in the garment industry By Kim Linden Imagine a job where you work 12 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week for about $2 an hour. Worse, you have to use inappropriate and sometimes dangerous machinery, you are subject

Violence: fact and fantasy

Does TV kill?About Us, SBS TVWednesday, July 10, 8.30pm (8 in SA)Previewed by Lisa Macdonald The Port Arthur massacre provoked a new wave of debate about the relationship between screen violence and real violence. In the last two months, numerous