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Write on: letters to the editor

Write on: letters to the editor McDonald's for all The federal health minister, Dr Wooldridge, thinks Australians could take to the idea of getting a free McDonald's for each child immunised. Perhaps we are so Americanised that we see nothing

Young Libs attack de facto families

Young Libs attack de facto families By Bill Mason BRISBANE — "The Queensland Young Liberals have shown themselves to be political dinosaurs over their attack on the rights of de facto couples and their children", Kathy Newnham, Brisbane acting

Looking out: Desertion

Desertion By Brandon Astor Jones "When I say that we have begun to desert and abandon one another, I mean that African-American men should start refusing to kill and maim each other. No, I am not suggesting that we start killing Caucasian men,

Who are the Peruvian terrorists?

Memoirs of an ex-menace

Hons and RebelsBy Jessica MitfordIndigo, 1996. 227 pp., $16.95 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon Jessica Mitford, born in 1917 into a family of rural English aristocrats, had by age 15 declared herself for communism and later, during the '40s, graduated

and ain't i a woman?: Another form of selling with sex

and ain't i a woman?: Another form of selling with sex I was sitting around the television a few weeks ago with my flatmates. A cheer went up as a new advert came on: the camera slowly pans up a corridor; there are footprints and piles of clothing

Poem: Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall House or workers, Hall of trades, Peoples' Palace, an idea wrought in stone and blood and struggle. If those stones could attest, what stories they could tell — deals done and done deals, bitter infighting, and

Re-evaluating Lenin

By Mahir Ali Long after the toppling likenesses of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov personified the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, Lenin keeps cropping up in the unlikeliest of places. Towards the end of his highly readably memoir, Palimpsest, a

Letter from the US: Blood and oil

Blood and oil By Barry Sheppard One week after I returned from attending the Democratic Socialist Party's convention in Australia, an explosion and fire at the Tosco refinery in the San Francisco Bay Area killed one worker and injured 25.

Cambodian Genocide Program releases key data

Cambodian Genocide Program releases key data The Cambodian Genocide Program (CGP) at Yale University has released information on the internet today that details atrocities committed under the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.

How to win a wage rise

ADELAIDE — An Enterprise Agreement that provides a pay rise for education workers in South Australia and actually puts staff back into schools, without trade-offs, was certified on December 24. The South Australian Institute of

Port Hedland strike ends

Port Hedland strike ends By Michael Bramwell PERTH — Workers at the $1.5 billion BHP iron ore processing plant in Port Hedland have tentatively agreed to return to work following a combined union meeting on January 29. In a charged atmosphere,