SYDNEY — "In 1984, when the British government privatised part of British Telecom, more than 2 million Britons bought shares", says one of the ads in the Greiner government's recently launched, $2.5 million privatisation
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The onset of recession has brought a surge of very dishonest, demagogic politics in the big business media. Greens, Aborigines and immigrants are the main targets of this politics of cynicism. "If today a political party is
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Since long before it was released, Oliver Stone's latest film, JFK, about the 1963 assassination of US President John Kennedy, has been the subject of extraordinary controversy. From the right have come calls for censorship and
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Recent decisions have cut deeply into the nuclear arsenals of the USA and the former USSR, greatly reducing the potential scale of a nuclear war. But the nuclear threat is by no means a thing of the past. While the USA and the
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Since 1984, the New Zealand economy, already staggering because of its loss of traditional export markets for primary products, has been brought to its knees by New Right policies similar to those proposed in the Australian
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Images of Working LifeSYDNEY — An art exhibition featuring Wonthaggi miners, French peasants, Melbourne bar staff, La Trobe Valley briquette baggers, Warsaw construction workers and many more. It's Images of Working Life,
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Croatians around the world celebrated their country's independence on January 15, the day a range of European and other states recognised the breakaway former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia. The European decision
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A year after the Gulf War, the United Nations embargo against Iraq remains in place, with Australian warships helping to enforce it. As a result, most Iraqis have spent the past 12 months living amid a catastrophe even worse
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SYDNEY — The 5% swing against the Liberal NSW government of Nick Greiner in the January 18 Entrance by-election confirms the result of last May's general election: working people around the state are angry with the
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The United States and British governments have rejected Libyan government proposals for the World Court or another independent international tribunal to investigate charges against two Libyan nationals over the 1988 Lockerbie
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Protests before and during the Aidex '91 arms bazaar recorded a number of successes. Weeks before the event the ACT government decided it would not approve future exhibitions of this nature, and the federal government was on the
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A peace song, "Stop the War in Croatia", hit number 13 on the national record charts in early December and could go higher. Royalties from the recording, by Tomislav Ivcic, are being used to buy medical supplies for casualties