TogetherWhiteville Apparel ChoirSend US$13 (cassette) to UNITE Choir Project, 1010 Tucker St, Greensboro, NC 27405, USAFortunes of the HighwayPhil CohenSend US$15 (CD) to PO Box 5208, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA Review by Norm Dixon
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Your government wants to spend $10 million of taxpayers' money to tell you why we need a GST. What could be more appropriate than using tax money to raise new taxes?
But some selfish spoilsports are trying to stop
Hanson heavy gets rousing reception
By Annemarie Hopcroft
NEWCASTLE — David Oldfield, Pauline Hanson's "trusted adviser", was greeted by a vocal crowd as he arrived at a Newcastle Business Club luncheon on August 4. The 30 or so protesters
By James Vassilopoulos
SYDNEY — The Sydney Water Corporation announced on August 3 that the city's tap water was again safe to drink. Since July 30, nine days after the parasites giardia and cryptosporidium had been detected in Sydney's water
Mordechai Vanunu's story on stage
ADELAIDE — In August 1986, Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's secret nuclear bomb-making facilities and paid a high price for his courage. He was kidnapped by Israel's secret police and shipped in a crate from
By Barry Sheppard
As the 190,000 idled General Motors workers were returning to work following the end of the strikes at two plants in Flint, Michigan, management announced that GM would sell off its parts subsidiary, Delphi. This move ups the ante
CPSU funding cuts
In July, members of the Community and Public Sector Union ACT branch rejected a proposal by the union's national officers that the national union take over the organising of major agencies currently covered by the ACT branch. In a
Nationalism
The national high school rallies against One Nation were an inspiration
to see and show the real potential to mobilise support against Hanson and
the mainstream parties' racism. Not only that, but it shows a real potential
By Sue Boland
Despite the miles of newsprint and the hours of discussion on radio and television about the need for tax "reform" and the "need" for a goods and services tax (GST), there is deafening silence about the only genuinely equitable method
By Greg Hardwick
Nestled in a picturesque valley, the historic town of Wollombi is usually serene, perhaps a little too slow for many city dwellers. But every year the town is invaded by crowds of people, from Newcastle and Sydney and just about
Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform EraBy David ZweigME Sharpe, 1997. 365 pp., $45 Review by Eva Cheng
The title of David Zweig's book, Freeing China's Farmers, is consistent with one of its main underlying assertions — the
New left unity in the Philippines
By Reihana Mohideen
MANILA — The "State of the Nation" address is an important day
in the Philippine left's calendar, demonstrations being held outside the
opening of Congress in the new financial
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