Just over a week after the independent member for Oxley, Pauline Hanson, made the most nakedly racist speech heard in an Australian parliament for decades, Prime Minister John Howard boasted that since his government was elected,
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The August 19 "siege" of Parliament House prompted a torrent of hypocrisy from the establishment media. Television and radio "news" reports and page one stories in the dailies all seemed to be based on the same cliché-ridden,
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Canberra, August 19: how the tap came off in their handsThe August 19 rallies called by the ACTU were meant to be a controlled demonstration of union and community support for the ALP's plan to amend the Howard government's
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Suharto dictatorship 'entering political crisis'SYDNEY — According to Astika Anom, one of several Indonesian democratic activists attending the June 21-24 "East Timor: Its Future in the Asia Pacific"
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Democratic Socialists: End the arms embargo!The United Nations should lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, turn over the weapons of the UN "peacekeepers" to the government of Bosnia and get out of the country,
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April 22 is the 125th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the Russian Revolution, V.I. Lenin. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is increased debate over Lenin's contribution to the movement for
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In the face of escalating protests, the Ramos government of the Philippines was forced to suspend an unpopular oil price rise on February 7. This followed a week of militant protests and the formation of the
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MANILA — Arrests and murders of Philippines leftists have increased in recent weeks. This is the response of the Ramos government and armed forces as they have come to realise that the left has been revitalised by
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The establishment press celebrated "middle Australia" on October 30. The Australian Institute of Family Studies, they happily reported, had confirmed that "middle Australia" was alive and well and quite happy with its lot.
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Coolibah is a day centre, run by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, for isolated older people in Melbourne's inner city. But according to the Barry Pearce, the centre's coordinator, these days Coolibah is constantly having to turn
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December 15 is the deadline set by the United States Congress for the Clinton administration to clinch a deal with the European Community on the prolonged Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks.
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Kennett to close more schoolsMELBOURNE — At least another 159 state schools are to be closed in Victoria according to an announcement by the Kennett government on October 15. Teachers' unions warn that the real number to