GLW issue 278, published 1997-06-18.

Good karma

Good karma Last Stop Heavenly HeightsKarma CountyTWA Records Reviewed by Iain Clacher Last Stop Heavenly Heights is a striking debut CD for Sydney band Karma County, a strange bar-band which seems to inhabit its very own original space in

UN$W to charge up-front fees

UN$W to charge up-front fees By Helen Jarvis SYDNEY — The council of the University of NSW decided on June 2 by the slimmest of margins (10 votes to eight) to accept fee-paying local undergraduates from 1998, and so to join the

Further cuts to youth income support

By Marina Cameron Federal cabinet approved further cuts to youth income support on June 10, when it agreed to in-principle support for a common youth allowance to replace Austudy, Abstudy and the youth dole in 1998. The CYA was flagged in the

News briefs

Kleenex boycott A meeting of local residents and conservationists held in Apollo Bay on June 6-8 voted unanimously to reject an offer to meet with the multinational corporation Kimberly Clark about the current consumer boycott of Kleenex

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Australian News

WA unionists prepare for a fight

WA unionists prepare for a fight By Anthony Benbow PERTH — Richard Court's Coalition government and its mates in the Building and Construction Industry Taskforce (whose main "task" consists of attacking construction unions) are trying to

Student editors' appeal fails

Student editors' appeal fails By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — The former editors of LaTrobe University's student newspaper, Rabelais, face criminal charges following the rejection of an appeal to the Federal Court. On June 6 Justice Ron

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International News

Kabila's long struggle

The mainstream press has made much of entries in Che Guevara's diaries, made more than 32 years ago, that were critical of the conduct of the young Laurent Kabila, now leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is more to the story than the

US blackmails shattered Congo

By Norm Dixon Thirty-two years of US-backed dictatorship have left Congo (Zaire) in a desperate economic and social situation. The personal wealth of exiled tyrant Mobutu Sese Seko is estimated to be as high as $10 billion, almost equivalent to

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Editorial

Getting real about jobs

Getting real about jobs @box text intro = The federal government's decision to delay the gradual reduction of tariffs on cars was welcomed by the car companies with the claim that this would preserve jobs in the industry. But whether jobs will

Cultural Dissent

A comic look at a state in serious trouble

A comic look at a state in serious trouble By Bronwen Beechey MELBOURNE — Rod Quantock has made a huge contribution to Australian comedy. He wrote and performed in the ground-breaking TV series Australia, You're Standing In It, opened and

Yippies, politics and the state

For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie HoffmanBy Jonah RaskinUniversity of California Press, 1996. 315 pp., $45 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon High up the league ladder of US '60s icons is Abbie Hoffman. Co-star, with Jerry Rubin, of the

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