GLW issue 162, published 1994-10-12.

Free education and the ALP

Comment by Alison Dellit At the ALP national conference, a series of motions was passed condemning the proposal of up-front fees for undergraduate students, and calling for a review of the charging of fees for postgraduate courses, which

On the box

The Liberals: Fifty Years After the Federal Party — A five-part series on the history and struggles of the Liberal Party since its formation by Robert Menzies. ABC, 8.30pm, Wednesday, October 12. Drancy: A Concentration Camp in Paris —

Action updates

ADELAIDE — The Campaign to Defend Public Services held its first public meeting here on September 28, with 40 people representing a wide range of areas under attack from the Brown Liberal government. A lively discussion developed around attacks on

No more blood for oil!

by Nick Everett "The international community continues to miss the point in the case of East Timor. To the capitalist governors, Timor's petroleum smells better than Timorese blood and tears." — A Portuguese priest, Kraras, in East

Further

Australian News

Wins and losses for environment at ALP conference

By Pip Hunter Pragmatism rather than principle was what prevented the ALP from expanding its three-mine uranium policy at its national conference, according to many environmentalists. The "pre-cooked" four-day conference, for which

Chris Hani memorial tour

The Chris Hani memorial tour visited Australia from September 26 to October 6 to give a first-hand account of developments in South Africa. The delegation consisted of Charles Nqakula, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and member

Further Australian News

Corrective Services imprisoned

International News

US blockade causes $1 billion loss to Cuba

US blockade causes $1 billion loss to Cuba HAVANA — Speaking at the Mexico-Cuba mixed commission meeting on September 19, Cuban foreign minister Roberto Robaina said US pressures caused close to $US1 billion in losses for the Cuban

Illegal logging on Indonesian island

Illegal logging on Indonesian island On the Indonesian island of Siberut, about 100 km west of Sumatra, all logging concessions were withdrawn and logging was supposed to be stopped half a year ago. But despite the government decision to

Further International News

Editorial

Agent Orange

Agent Orange It is past time that the deadly effects of the herbicide Agent Orange, used as a defoliant in the Vietnam War, are officially recognised. The legal decision last week to grant compensation to Australian Vietnam War veterans

Cultural Dissent

New media project set up in Darwin

By Tim E. Stewart DARWIN — Challenging the daily terror of Murdoch headlines, a group of locals have embarked on an ambition media project. They are setting up a community-based paper in direct opposition to the sex, law and order of

The bitter voice of social upheaval

Gorky By Henri Troyat Allison & Busby, 1994. 216 pp., $19.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon In 1892, Alexey Peshkov adopted a new name for the publication of his first story in Russia, and Maxim Gorky, "the Bitter One",

Further Cultural Dissent

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