By Di Quin
MELBOURNE — Just under one year after the Coalition came into government in Victoria, the state remains in severe economic crisis, and a new austerity budget last week hit Victorians still reeling from the attacks brought in by
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By Zanny Begg
SYDNEY — The National Maritime Museum has gathered together a collection of artworks produced by Sydney wharfies in a fascinating exhibition, "On the Waterfront: wharfies, artists and actors". The exhibition brings to life the
By Ron Guignard
ADELAIDE — About 150 people, including some from Melbourne, protested at the Adelaide Submarine Corporation's (ASC) launch of its first Collins class submarine at Port Adelaide on Saturday, August 28. The Peace Action
Stevie
Nile dictates to Fahey
Until the last week, the lesbian and gay communities themselves have been divided about the anti-vilification legislation, but the unprincipled actions taken by Fred Nile, who forced the government to modify
Greenpeace criticises EPA
By Marina Carman
SYDNEY — Weeks after a 10-tonne crude oil spill from a Shell terminal into Gore Cove in Sydney Harbour, the area is still polluted and there is no sign of prosecution by the Environment
By Ana Kailis
The Queensland government agreed last week to buy back large tracts of land on the Cape York Peninsula from Queensland developer George Quaid.
The September 6 announcement came after months of intense campaigning by the
John Fahey's softly, softly budget
By Reihana Mohideen
SYDNEY — The NSW Liberal government's September 7 budget seems less harsh than the recent budget of the Goss Labor government in Queensland. The cutbacks to the public sector proposed
Comment by Ruth Birgin
Why, in the present Australian federal and state governments, is there not one vocal politician with enough backbone to tackle the "drug problem", not as a legal, but as a socio-medical issue?
The overwhelming
By Ignatius Kim
While media freedom and objectivity have for long been an ideological cornerstone of liberal democracy, their actual practice is rare and often a focus of political tension.
This will be one of the issues tackled in an SBS
September 11 marks the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Socialist president Salvador Allende by the Chilean military.
By Anthony Brown
In the federal House of Representatives on September 17, 1970, a young Labor MP, Paul Keating, described transnational mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc's (RTZ) financial control of Australia's natural resources as
By Ray Fulcher
MELBOURNE — The Victorian Trades Hall Council has called for a "week of action" against the Kennett government's attacks on workers and public services.
Beginning October 3 and culminating in a city rally on October 6 as
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