Confined for six years in a tiny cell, Mordechai Vanunu, who exposed Israel's secret nuclear weapons program, is being subjected to systematic ill-treatment which threatens his mental stability, says Gideon Spiro, an Israeli
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Snouts in the troughMELBOURNE — Under Jeff Kennett's new order, austerity is the watchword in the public sector. To underline the point that all are to be hit equally, the premier says that he will do nothing to help
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MELBOURNE — The Macquarie Dictionary defines a "vandal" as "someone who deliberately or ignorantly destroys or damages property, works of art, etc". The definition fits Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett and his government,
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MELBOURNE — In a move calculated to tailor the ongoing campaign against the Kennett government's draconian Employee Relations Act to Labor's federal re-election bid, the Keating federal government announced on
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MELBOURNE — As the Kennett government steps up its assault on working people in Victoria the campaign to defeat these attacks is in grave danger of being subsumed by Keating's re-election bid, according to the Democratic
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MELBOURNE — Independent Senator Janet Powell described the November 21-22 conference of the New Zealand Alliance, which she attended as an observer, as "really magnificent" and an inspiration for people active on the progressive
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MELBOURNE — Independent Senator Janet Powell described the November 21-22 conference of the New Zealand Alliance, which she attended as an observer, as "really magnificent" and an inspiration for people active on the progressive end
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MELBOURNE — The Kennett government anounced on November 20 that it would close 56 state schools, abolish 4000 teaching positions, sack 3760 school cleaners and 830 administrative staff. Among the schools closing is
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MELBOURNE — Industrial action involving a wide range of public sector unions has followed the 200,000 strong November 10 strike and march because the Kennett government is refusing to back down from its plans to
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It is our debt, the mainstream media tell us. Every Victorian owes $12,640 (or more) as their individual share of the state government's debt. In his most conciliatory moment, Premier Jeff Kennett said he understood workers'
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MELBOURNE — Victorians used to joke about "political refugees" from Queensland under the former Bjelke-Petersen government. But soon, it seems, there may be a flight to the north, to what a local wit said was now a relative
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Kennett's unabashed class partisanship ("Ours will be a pro-business government", he promised before the elections) is making even the federal opposition nervous. John Howard thinks Kennett should have declared his intention to