Myths of appeasementRecent developments have once again led East Timor support groups in Australia to protest against government policies in "condoning" Indonesian genocide. Invariably these analyses comment on the
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The VFT (Very Fast Train between Sydney and Melbourne) project is being indecently exhumed, after we thought we had buried it for good in the early '90s. Sir Peter Abeles, the main driving force behind the project, explained that
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The Melbourne Age has exposed police continuing the spying previously done by the Victoria Police Special Branch, supposedly disbanded by the Cain Labor government in 1983. The revelations caused outrage as well as some amusement
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After the end of World War II, everybody predicted that the capitalist economic system would be coming to an almost instant sticky end. The world Communist parties knew it; the US establishment feared it and ran an intensive
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Twenty years ago, when I was part of a team working on a major project with the Wool and Textile Division of CSIRO in Geelong, I first heard of the idea of robotic sheep shearing. Having watched shearers at work, I understood a
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It's on again! In the run-up to the federal budget, ASIO is discovering sinister terrorists to justify its funding. Never mind how its much-publicised furphies stir up jingoism against Muslims; as far as ASIO is concerned, all
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GLW is to be congratulated for initiating a critical examination of the history of the Australian Communist Party; it is to be hoped that it will continue. Instead of treating the subject as dead history, political activists will
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Nowadays, when people borrow one of my PA systems for yet another demonstration, I sometimes point out that some of its component bits first saw service in the second Moratorium. I was neither an organiser nor yet one of the
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On February 20, the ABC screened a docu-drama dealing with an explosion which took place outside a Sydney hotel in the early hours of Monday, February 13, 1978. The Hilton, main venue for the Commonwealth Heads
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The ongoing process of rewriting the history of Australia's labour movement pervades David McKnight's book Australian Spies and Their Secrets, reviewed by Green Left Weekly some weeks ago. The book is based
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In 1948 federal parliament introduced quota-proportional representation in Senate elections, the previous majority-preferential method introduced in 1928 having proved unacceptable all round. Labour's 1948 proposal, which
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There is far more wrong with Paul Ehrlich's formula I=PA (or I=PAT in its extended form) than GLW correspondence and articles have so far suggested. Both the form and the contents of Ehrlich's statement are ideologically